[ad] We recently reported on thousands of people being hooked by big sites distributing malware, it now seems Doubleclick was the one at fault. It’s a pretty neat trick and a good spin on Social Engineering leveraging on the trustworthy nature of the sites. CNN even? Rogue anti-spyware software that pushes fraudulent PC scans has […]
Malware
‘Security Consultant’ Caught for Running Large Bot Network
[ad] Apparently he stopped his naughty activities back in 2006, but still…a guy that is supposed to securing machines was installing malware and had a bot totaling about a quarter of a million zombies. Most used for info gathering, Paypal accounts and installing Malware for comission, he claims to have made $19,000 in a week […]
Thousands Hooked by Malware from Big Sites
[ad] If I recall this is not the first time this has happened, delivering viral payloads via banner ads and flaws in scripting. It seems that malware peddlers are getting more aggressive though, it obviously shows there is actual monetary value in infecting people and stealing their data. A subtle form of social engineering too, […]
Cyber Crime Toolkits Go On Sale
[ad] This is not exactly new news either, these kind of toolkits have been on sale for a long time, virus generators, trojan toolkits, now they are getting more polished, more stream-lined, more expensive and more easily available. News of them is hitting the mainstream media.. Malicious hackers are producing easy to use tools that […]
Storm Worm Descends on Blogspot
[ad] It seems like spammers, scammers, phishers and now malware authors are starting to leverage blogs more and more, especially Blogger/Blogspot as Google tend to be quite slow in responding and sometimes don’t respond at all. This makes it an ideal platform for dodgy behaviour as the crooks have adequate lead time to con/infect people […]