by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
Somewhat technical overview but good stuff. John Levine comments:Last weekend, Brandon Enright of UC San Diego gave a informal talk at the Toorcon conference in which he reported on his analysis of the Storm botnet. According to his quite informative slides, Storm has...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
This thing is quite realistic. And if you click “Download”, you get an offer to install a nasty little Trojan (Sunbelt Sandbox report here).The trojan, “updateKB890830.exe”, downloads from a site that looks like a Microsoft url, so it’s all quite realistic to the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here’s a sample we received today, sent to our controller. That link to the “complaint document” loads something that should not be considered as anything even remotely safe. We’ve certainly seen these before, but just a reminder for all...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
Two men (on italian and one russian) have been arrested in Italy. Reportedly, by using exploits that target vulnerabilities in the browser, they were able to install premium-rate dialers on 67,000 computers and make 6 million Euros (about $8.5 million).More here (in...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
Sunbelt researcher Patrick Jordan found a style of popup this morning after infecting a system with some spyware.It’s nothing near even the old “Eliza” program, nor any other chat bot. This one is only interested in selling a cash advance.I made a little YouTube vid...