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Facebook Malware Campaigns Rotating Tactics

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2008-08-27 10:04:51 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...campaigns spreading across Facebook and Myspace are all about plain simple social engineering and a combination of tactics However, in between combining typosquatting and on purposely introducing longer subdomains impersonating a web application's directory structure, there are certain exceptions. Like this flash file hosted at ImageShack...
 
Tags: malware campaign, successful malware campaign, facebook, facebook malware campaign, campaigns, campaign, campaigns based, trust factor, trust
 
 
 
 
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Segmenting and Localizing Spam Campaigns

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2008-05-02 07:01:43 by HASH0x8af6990 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...campaigns, thereby increasing the probability for a higher response, was a logical trend to come, one that we're currently witnessing on a large scale. Outsourcing the localization process by using translation services on demand , for anything starting from phishing emails and spam, and going to malware campaigns, is starting to accelerate,...
 
Tags: spam, market, fashion spammers, market participants, spammers, spam message, emails, email databases, localization process
 
 
 
 
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Asprox Phishing Campaigns Dominated in April

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2008-05-27 06:38:48 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...campaigns in April, all of which are courtesy of the Asprox botnet, a botnet that despite being actively sending phishing emails for the last couple of months, received more publicity for its introduction of SQL injection capabilities, like the ones I've assessed in a previous post. The IPs in question 212.174.25.241 62.233.145.45...
 
Tags: asprox, botnet, asprox botnet, previous, previous months, historical domains, ips, months, domains
 
 
 
 
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Presidential campaigns clueless about Net threats

2008-04-12 06:18:51 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The 2008 presidential campaigns are apparently clueless about cyberthreats that could harm the candidates' reputations and fund-raising or disclose sensitive information, a security researcher said Friday
 
Tags: presidential campaigns, disclose sensitive information, apparently clueless, security researcher, harm, friday, reputations, cyberthreats
 
 
 
 
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After Election: Files Stolen In Obama And McCain Campaigns Cyberattack, Obama-themed Malware Makes Rounds

2008-11-06 00:49:21 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
According to an article published Wednesday by Newsweek, hackers broke into computer systems of both the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns and stole a large amount of data Officials with the FBI and the Secret Service notified Obama staffers in August of the breach after tech consultants for the campaign detected what they thought at
 
Tags: john mccain campaigns, secret service, computer systems, data officials, barack obama, obama staffers, tech consultants, fbi, campaign
 
 
 
 
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Fake Celebrity Video Sites Serving Malware

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2008-06-20 06:58:44 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...campaigns in order to get a better understanding of the way the campaigns function These campaigns are also starting to get so sophisticated, that analyzing a single one will expose another massive SQL injection, reveal several blackhat SEO domain farms, let you obtain fresh Zlob malware variants, and point you to the very latest and...
 
Tags: malware, blackhat seo-ers, blackhat seo, net, malware authors, malware authors efficiency, blackhat seo operation, info, blackhat
 
 
 
 
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SQL Injecting Malicious Doorways to Serve Malware

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2008-07-21 01:45:57 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...campaigns will receive enough generic traffic to their redirectors. Excluding the use of the very same traffic management tools, web malware exploitation kits, templates for the rogue adult sites and the rogue security software , perhaps the most important thing to point out regarding all of the previously analyzed such campaigns, is that...
 
Tags: malware, malicious doorways, sites, rogue adult sites, malware gangs, campaigns load on-the-fly, campaigns, fake porn sites, sql
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing August's Threatscape

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2008-09-10 06:57:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...campaigns targeting popular social networking sites, Russian's organized cyberattack against Georgia with evidence on who's behind it pointing to "everyone" and a few botnets dedicated to the attack making the whole process easy to outsource and turn responsibility into an "open topic", several new web based botnet management kits and tools...
 
Tags: malware, facebook malware campaigns, usefulness pinch malware, banker malware kits, malware campaigns, botnet, diy botnet kit, distribute malware, banker malware
 
 
 
 
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Web Based Botnet Command and Control Kit 2.0

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2008-08-22 14:02:15 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...campaigns and DDoS attacks simultaneously, where each of these gets a separate metrics page Automation of malicious tasks, by setting up tasks, and issuing notices on the status of the task, when it was run and when it was ended. Just consider the possibilities for a scheduling malware and DDoS attacks for different quarters Segmentation in...
 
Tags: ddos attacks based, ddos attacks, malware, previous malware campaigns, ddos attacks simultaneously, botnet, country, country bot, ddos