Now this is an interesting turn of events, the Asprox botnet malware is being used to spread SQL Injection tools rather than sending out phishing e-mails as before.
It seems to install quite stealthily as well disguising itself as a Windows Service with a fairly convincing file name. It’s certainly interesting to see the evolution of [...]
It seems like malware numbers are going up, rather than down as I would expect. But then if you think about it as a numbers game, the more people that come online - the more in absolute terms that are going to have nefarious intent. This means more hackers, more script kiddies and more malware.
It’s [...]
It’s a scary thought to find out perhaps a quarter of Internet connected machines could be zombies…The sad part is, I think it could well be true, as most of the non tech savvy Internet users I know still use Internet Exploder and their machines are riddled with crapware, trojans, viruses and spyware.
Imagine how many [...]
Now this is a massive growth, 8000% percent..woah!
Thankfully losses are still ‘modest’ whatever that means, I guess although the attacks grow in
number, awareness an education also increases (in places like UK anyway) so the risk is fairly well mitigated.
UK incidents of phishing scams have grown 8,000 per cent over the last two years, according to [...]
It seems like phishers are changing their tactics to those similar to spammers, rather than going for big targets and mass mails they are turning to more wealthy customers and fewer but larger bounties.
Imagine if they can nail a few big ones, they are set.
Online fraudsters are turning their attentions away from large banks and [...]
0×00: Preface
Media, kindly supported by AV “experts”, drawn apocalyptical vison of desctruction caused by stupid M$ Outlook / VisualBasic worm, called “ILOVEYOU”. Absurdal estimations - $10M lost for “defending the disease”, especially when you take a look at increasing with the speed of light value of AV companies market shares, made many people sick. Lame [...]
Taof is a GUI cross-platform Python generic network protocol fuzzer. It has been designed for minimizing set-up time during fuzzing sessions and it is especially useful for fast testing of proprietary or undocumented protocols.
Taof aids the researcher during the data retrieval process by providing a transparent proxy functionality that forwards and logs requests from a [...]
A sterling case for two factor authentication if I ever saw one.
The rule is use two of the 3 methods of authentication, if possible use all 3.
What you have (A USB key or Token)
What you are (Biometrics - Fingerprint or Iris scan)
What you know (A password or passphrase)
More than 8 out of every 10 [...]
Since Symantec stopped development of L0phtcrack many people have been looking for alternatives.
So don’t forget…
Jack the Ripper is still king
Medusa is good
Ophcrack for Rainbow Tables
And now one more, introducting LCP, which we have talked about before in the article Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables.
LCP is freeware!
The main purpose of LCP program is user [...]
Ah, here at Darknet we have always been a fan of Sophos and the way they operate, a very efficient company and good to see good technical products still coming out of the UK!
Another good move by them, they have decided to offer a free rootkit detection tool called Sophos Anti-Rootkit..Yah I know, not a [...]
