Stimulus packages, stock brokers and Trojans, Oh My!
Continue Reading Add comment March 3rd, 2009
Malware called Tigger/Syzor which is a safe mode rootkit password stealing Trojan that targets day traders.
Posts filed under 'Botnets'
MS09-002 exploit in the wild
Continue Reading Add comment February 19th, 2009
The Internet Storm Center is reporting that several AV vendors have confirmed that the recently patch IE 7 vulnerability (MS-09-002 Uninitialized Memory Corruption) has been reverse engineered by the malware writers (so quickly!)
Are you ready to see your spam volume Jump 10 times?
Continue Reading Add comment January 26th, 2009
It took less than 3 months for the Spammers to ramp up their production to 90% of where it was pre-McColo takedown in November 2008 according to a number of reports and graphs available online.
Lance Atkinson only fined $63,400 USD by New Zealand because he ‘co-operated with authorities
Continue Reading Add comment December 23rd, 2008
Lance Atkinson, a prolific spammer since 2005 as part of ‘HerbalKing’ the
‘#1 worst spam gang of 2007, 2008′ according to the Spamhaus ROSKO list has been fined only $92,715 AUS (about $63,400 USD) by authorities because, according to Justice Christine French of the High Court in Christchurch, of the co-operation and candor of Lance in the early stages of the investigation.
Mega-D Botnet back after McColo shutdown
Continue Reading Add comment December 8th, 2008
Well it was a nice but brief vacation from three of the big Botnets as McColo was shut down last month but by all reports the Mega-D botnet looks to be back and at near full strength.
It pays to get a second opinion on Free Online Virus Scanners
Continue Reading Add comment December 8th, 2008
Once in a while – say every 6 months – why not get a second opinion on if your computer is infected with something that your existing anti-virus product may have missed? It is also handy to have a list like this just in case you do notice something wrong with your computer (slowdown or unexpected pop-ups or error messages) and your existing up to date AV solution doesn’t set off the warning sirens.
McColo Hands Off Botnets to the Russians
Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008
Brief respite from spam could be over as McColo hands off Command and Control of Botnets to a Russian network.
McColo - Why Would They Host Spammers?
Continue Reading Add comment November 14th, 2008
The recent big news is about the Washington Post being involved in the shutting down of a Co-Location hosting provider (McColo Corp.- AS26780) that has as customers some of the biggest spammers on the Internet – some reports are as high as 2/3rds or even 75% of all spam worldwide was associated with them.
United States Presidential Election Email Attack
Continue Reading Add comment November 6th, 2008
Spammers continue to take advantage of anything ‘newsworthy’ or ’sensational’ like the recent US Presidential election
Warezov Rises From The Ashes
Continue Reading Add comment October 16th, 2008
Well that didn’t take long … Less than a day after the announcement that there was a downward trend in spam because of the arrest and freezing of the accounts of Shane Atkinson, his brother Lance Atkinson and Roland Smits we get word that a botnet than was dormant for 9 month is now waking up.
