It’s been recently uncovered that there’s a HUGE botnet, which is extremely advanced and constantly evolving a variant of the ever popular (and usually quite advanced) TDL strain. We did write about a TDL variant earlier in 2010 – TDL AKA Alureon Rootkit Now Infecting 64-Bit Windows 7 Platform. TDL itself has been around several […]
Tags: alureon, botnet, botnets, cast iron botnet, huge botnet, malware, tdl, tdl botnet, tdl malware, tdl trojan, tdl-4, tdss, trojans
Posted in: Malware, Windows Hacking | Add a CommentPerhaps even the cyber-criminals are effected by the recent recession – botnets for hire are hitting rock-bottom rates starting at just $2. We reported back in April 2010 about the Texas Man Who Pleaded Guilty To Bot Network For Hire. They are becoming more multi-talented as well rather than just offering bot networks for DDoS […]
Tags: botnet, botnet for hire, botnets, buy botnet, buy bots, cyber-crime, hire botnet, malware, trojan, trojans, worm, worms
Posted in: Malware, Phishing, Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentSo after a year of research and debate, what did the Aussies come up with? A policy to disconnect people from the Internet if they get infected by a virus.. Rather naive isn’t it? Plus if your ISP cuts you off, how exactly are you supposed to resolve the problem without a connection to do […]
Tags: aussies, australia, belinda neal, botnets, cyber-crime, cybercrime, malware, optus, Phishing, telstra
Posted in: Legal Issues, Malware, Privacy | Add a CommentSo no big surprise here, malware is getting more malicious! It’s good to know though and it’s good that companies out there like Messagelabs, under the watchful eye of Symantec, are trying to measure what is going on in malware land. The malware/worm landscape has always been a fast moving one and my guess is […]
Conficker has been giving us all headaches for quite some time now, the latest news it that China hosts up to 28% of the World Conficker infections at its peak. 7 million separate hosts infected with Conficker at the end of 2009, that’s more than the population of some countries! It’s a pretty nasty piece […]
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Posted in: Malware | Add a CommentJust a week after supplying an infected Android phone to a worker at Panda Security, Vodafone Spain has once again managed to pass out a malware infected HTC Magic phone to a researcher at S21Sec. The write-up on the Panda Research Blog, including technical analysis of the infector can be found here: Vodafone distributes Mariposa […]
Tags: botnets, htc magic, htc magic malware, htc magic mariposa, htc malware, htc mariposa, malware, mariposa, mariposa botnet, mariposa malware, panda security, s21sec, trojans, viruses, vodafone, vodafone malware, vodafone mariposa, vodafone spain
Posted in: Hardware Hacking, Malware | Add a CommentWe wrote about Zeus a while back, a nasty trojan which can evade detection by Anti-virus software and is ranked as the number 1 trojan infector by numbers. About a week ok a massive sting operation took down large parts of the Mariposa botnet in Spain and the USA and the latest news is large […]
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Posted in: Malware, Privacy | Add a CommentAh Twitter in the news again, the bad guys sure do keep up with new trends. After being taken offline for a while by a Joejob DDoS attack Twitter is in the news again – this time it’s being used as the command channel for a Botnet. The normal method for controlling Botnets is via […]
Tags: botnet, botnet command, botnet command channel, botnets, malware, twitter, twitter botnet, worms
Posted in: Malware, Network Hacking | Add a CommentWe did mention Torpig in passing back in January 2008 when talking about the Mebroot rootkit which digs down deep into the Master Boot Record. It seems like Torpig has been pretty active since then and the latest break is that some security researchers have managed to infiltrate the botnet and collect some data on […]
Tags: anserin, botnet, botnets, data-theft, fraud, malware, mebroot, rootkit, sinowal, torpig, torpig botnet, trojans, worms
Posted in: Malware, Privacy, Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentA bit of an update to the conficker worm that is supposedly scheduled for new updates and instructions today wednesday 1st. April 2009 and that nobody except for the bad guys knows what those instructions would be. Fyodor has rolled out a new nmap beta release to the nmap scripting engine that enables it to […]
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