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Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

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2007-12-09 21:14:53 by HASH0x89fa6a4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...authors for a while The allure of being self-sufficient doesnt seem to be a relevant one when it comes to a spammers results oriented attitude. Spammers excel at harvesting and purchasing email addresses , sending, and successfully delivering the messages, phishers are masters of social engineering, while on the other hand malware authors or...
 
Tags: malware, malware attachments, malware attack, malware authors, hand malware authors, spammers, modern malware, storm worm malware, emails courtesy
 
 
 
 
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Malware authors get busy in down economy

2008-10-30 00:00:00 by Jason Meserve in Network World on Security
 
...authors do when the stock market is down? Increase their rate of malware distribution in an effort to capitalize on economic fears. And to do so, they're having to revert to some older tactics as the number of financial institutions dwindle, taking with them the number of phishing opportunities. This week, I talked with Ryan Sherstobitoff,...
 
Tags: malware authors, financial institutions dwindle, stock, stock market, malware distribution, ryan sherstobitoff, economic fears, panda security, malware trends
 
 
 
 
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Anti-Debugging Series - Part I

2008-12-02 20:56:25 by Tyler Shields in Zero in a bit
 
...authors today Before we delve into the intricacies of individual methods of anti-debugging lets use this post to define the classes of anti-debugging that we will be discussing. While other classes may exist, the definition of these classes is an attempt to include the majority of anti-debugging methods in use today. There is some overlap...
 
Tags: process execution breaks, execution, process, methods query process, hardware breakpoint, hardware, process information, target process, methods
 
 
 
 
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Russia's FSB vs Cybercrime

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2007-12-20 15:44:16 by HASH0x89b8758 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...authors of the DIY malware Pinch . A populist move mainly because the Russian Business Network is still 100% fully operational, the Storm Worm botnet was originally launched and is currently controlled by Russian folks, and the lack of any kind of structured response on who was behind Estonia's DDoS attack. Pinch-ing the authors is one thing...
 
Tags: pinch, pinch authors, diy malware pinch, authors, malware authors, malware, notorious pinch trojan, source malware, pinch-ing
 
 
 
 
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Quality and Assurance in Malware Attacks

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2008-04-02 11:49:20 by HASH0x8b57b3c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...authors themselves. In fact, the low detection rate is often pointed out as the quality of the crypting service by the authors themselves while advertising their malware or crypting services. And when a popular piece of malware known as Shark introduced a built-in VirusTotal submission to verify the low detecting rate of the newly generated...
 
Tags: malware authors start, malware authors, malware, authors, services, malware services, start, malware product, malware campaign
 
 
 
 
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EU bloggers under assault by the European Parliament - they need your help

2008-06-12 08:38:35 by HASH0x8b6ca50 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...authors of one of the blogs, belsec , that they are under assault by the EU government. It seems in their wisdom, the European Parliament has decided that in the interests of "media pluralism", all blog owners should declare their ownership, affiliations and status of weblog authors The explanatory notes of the proposed regulation says this...
 
Tags: bloggers, weblog authors, authors, legal status, blog owners, status, blog, bloggers rights, european parliament
 
 
 
 
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EU bloggers under assault by the European Parliament - they need your help

2008-06-12 09:38:11 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...authors of one of the blogs, belsec , that they are under assault by the EU government. It seems in their wisdom, the European Parliament has decided that in the interests of "media pluralism", all blog owners should declare their ownership, affiliations and status of weblog authors The explanatory notes of the proposed regulation says this...
 
Tags: bloggers, weblog authors, authors, bloggers rights, freedom, legal status, blog owners, basic freedom, status
 
 
 
 
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Yet Another DIY Proprietary Malware Builder

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2008-05-21 09:18:09 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...authors continue emphasizing on the product concept, namely they build a malware based on their perception of what a malware should constitute of, then start offering it for sale as well as it's source code. In the long-term however, based on the increasing number of malware and spyware coding on demand, malware authors would undoubtedly...
 
Tags: malware, malware authors, malware authors continue, malware benefit, open-source malware segment, malware based, diy malware tools, zeus remains publicly, zeus
 
 
 
 
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Coding Spyware and Malware for Hire

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2008-07-22 03:52:14 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...authors would code and then start promoting a piece of malware including features that he thinks his potential customers would want by generalizing a cybercriminal's needs, is today's "listening to the customer" win-win situation that they've reached already The whole maturity from a product concept to customerization is in fact so prevalent...
 
Tags: malware, malware author, malware authors, malware binaries, malware attacks, ftp, ftp user, collects, malware industry