by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
The High Tech Crime Team of the Dutch National Crime Squad has seized 143 Bredolab command and control servers and effectively shut down the botnet that controlled 30 million computers, according to the country’s public prosecutor’s web site.The takedown was a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
The GFI Sunbelt Software Malware Minute video is available for your viewing pleasure on the Sunbelt Software YouTube channel (and below). Malware Minutes are short videos (1-2 minutes) that provide a weekly roundup of top stories from the GFI Sunbelt Software Blog,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
The U.S. Secret Service, the FBI, the Internet Crime Complaint Center and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center have issued a pair of advisories detailing the threat to job seekers from money mule scams and to small and medium size businesses...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
Stop malware, cut cyber slacking, reduce bandwidth use and block pr0nPaul Mah, on the ITBusiness Edge blog, reported on GFI’s September survey of web filtering practices in small and medium businesses and got some interesting feedback from readers.Web filtering is put...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
There was an email thread circulating here at GFI Sunbelt Labs listing good books about malware analysis. Someone said: “we should blog this.”Here is a list of everybody’s picks:“Malware Analyst’s Cookbook and DVD: Tools and Techniques for Fighting Malicious...
