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 [...]
A massive online heist, some (like McAfee) claim it’s the biggest ever online sting involving a bank, it’s comes in at about half a million pounds or or $1.1 million USD.
Using some l33t0 custom trojan, it seems to be more a case of lack of education and the whole situation could have been avoided by [...]
UK Police have uncovered a fairly massive data theft operation with a total close to 8,500 victims.
It’s quite worrying when things like this are uncovered as if 1 is uncovered or discovered…imagine how many aren’t found out about, just like exploits.
British electronic-crime detectives are investigating a massive data theft operation that stole sensitive information from [...]
For those that didn’t see, there is a new all singing all dancing ‘light-weight’ Codec in town that is actually a trojan.
Indeed it’s not the first time we’ve seen this kind of thing.
The zCodec software actually messes with your DNS settings.
Users looking for the latest and greatest video software may not just be in danger [...]
It’s good to see work on open source tools in the countermeasure department aswell as the attack and penetration arena.
It’s a shame since Snort and Nessus have gone semi-commercial.
I hope more people invest their time in good IDS, Firewall and IPS systems, I love things like IPCop and hope to see more products like HLBR.
HLBR [...]
This effort started quite a long time ago, I was just checking up to see how they were getting on, but there’s not much news of their progress.
perating under the theory that if you kill the head, the body will follow, a group of high-profile security researchers is ramping up efforts to find and disable [...]
Ethical debates are always interesting, and people have gotten in trouble lately for reverse engineering and various other branches of research.
This is a fairly old topic, but as I’m clearing out some old drafts, I still find it an interesting one.
There’s been an ongoing debate in security circles concerning how security researchers should disclose vulnerabilities [...]
Malware herders are speeding up, the first wave is already here for MS06-40.
It’s basically a variant of some old malware suited to the new vulnerability. Same old story then, same packer, technique, new exploit.
Same as the days of autorooters.
It’s basically the Mocbot trojan that was used in the Zotob worm attack in August 2005.
The first [...]
Botnets and organises cybercrime is getting more prevalent, it seems it’s increasing exponentially despire crackdowns by the US governments and other organisations.
The criminals are getting more advanced, phishing scams are getting more realistic, technically trojans are getting more effective and the groups are getting really organised.
Cybercrooks are organizing better and moving to more sophisticated tactics [...]
Well it is for me, and I guess anyone who consider themself a career hacker, or at least has a serious interest..
As a few good trojans are open source (Back Orifice?), you can just mess around with them for a while until you reach the point they are no longer detected by any of the [...]
