Blog Posts Tagged with "Botnets"
Russian Cybercrime: Not Just a Localized Threat
April 25, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The official estimates say that the global cyber crime market was worth $12.5 billion in 2011, and $4,5 billion of the market share is related to the Russian cybercrime market with $2.3 billion taking place in Russia alone. Compared to last year, the problem has doubled...
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Flashback - Are You Joking? There is No Malware for Mac!
April 23, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
We must remember that in any software there will be vulnerabilities that could be exploited for criminal purposes. To give you an immediate idea of the malware available for the Mac environment, I produced a table that lists the main agents detected by a well known antivirus...
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On Cyber Threats in the Mobile Environment
April 20, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Mobile threats should alarm private industry, as the risk of data exposure is high due the growth of the mobile sector. Cyber criminals and governments are aware of the value of information to be gained from our mobile devices and are showing an increased interest in the sector...
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Microsoft Dismisses Zeus Botnet Takedown Criticism
April 17, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The chief criticism is that the Microsoft operation exposed sensitive information that a handful of researchers had shared in confidence, and that countless law enforcement investigations may have been delayed or derailed as a result..."
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A Detailed Analysis of the DDoS Phenomena
April 16, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The report showed 19.1TB of data and 14 billion packets of malicious traffic were aimed at financial services during Q4 2011, and that the traffic increased during Q1 2012, with 65TB of data and 1.1 trillion packets that were identified and mitigated. The figures are amazing...
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Botnets a Growing National Security Concern
April 13, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
There is no clear line between cybercrime and cyber warfare, and botnets are a serious threat with tremendous offensive potential. Through a botnet it is possible to attack the nerve centers of a country, and isolated attacks can target critical infrastructure...
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Dirt Jumper DDoS Botnet Variants Continue to Proliferate
April 13, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Development will continue, and there are increasing trends towards the development of attack techniques that will bypass certain types of anti-DDoS protection measures. The underground economy continues to flourish, and DDoS services are a piece of that rotten pie..."
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Zeus Trojan Takes Aim at Cloud Payroll Services
April 12, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Zeus captures a screenshot of a Ceridian payroll services web page when a corporate user whose machine is infected... visits this website. This allows Zeus to steal the user id, password, company number and the icon selected by the user for the image-based authentication system..."
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Can DNS Attacks Threaten the Internet on a Large Scale?
March 27, 2012 Added by:Alan Woodward
This attack is theoretically possible because the DNS is a hierarchy. At the top level are 13 servers. Disrupt them and you could disrupt the entire DNS network. Authorities know this and they put a lot of effort into ensuring that the DNS network can cope with a DOS attack...
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U.S. Anti-Botnet Code of Conduct for ISPs Unveiled
March 23, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Today is an example of the importance of self-regulatory efforts to help improve the safety and performance of the internet. Sustainable solutions to contain bots must include all stakeholders in efforts to detect, prevent, and remediate these threats..."
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It's Not the Spam Email But What Lies Behind Them
March 15, 2012 Added by:Alan Woodward
The fact that such large proportion of home machines host unknown malware hides a bigger threat. By hijacking so many PCs it is possible to mount a massive probing operation that can seek out high value targets that are susceptible to classic hacking attacks...
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Leveraging Email Lists for Detecting Botnet IPs
March 04, 2012 Added by:Gianluca Stringhini
We propose a third way of performing botnet mitigation. Instead of learning different features to identify and attack the different botnets, we study how bots behave when sending spam, allow us to distinguish between bot infected machines and legitimate users...
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Can You Stamp Out Spambots? No, But Stop Being a Victim
March 01, 2012 Added by:Michelle Drolet
Attackers avoid creating recognizable patterns of attack, installing backdoors for easy re-entry. There are limitless ways of eluding detection by anti-malware tools. Heuristics and fuzzy logic are an improvement, but a far cry from the detection needs of organizations...
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Targeting of Android Devices Leads Malware Trends for 2012
February 24, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Smartphones and tablets are finally delivering consumers with these converged and connected experiences we've been promised for so long. But this is a double edged sword: as smart device usage becomes more sophisticated, so too are cyber criminals' methods of attacking..."
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FCC Prompts ISPs to Adopt Code of Conduct Standards
February 24, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"If we fail to tackle these challenges, we will pay the price in the form of diminished safety, lost privacy, lost jobs, and financial vulnerability – billions of dollars potentially lost to digital criminals," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said...
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Sophisticated New Zeus Variants Continue to Propagate
February 24, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Every peer in the botnet can act as a C&C server, while none of them really are one. Bots are now capable of downloading commands, configuration files, and executables from other bots - every compromised computer is capable of providing data to the other bots..."
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