There has been much discussion of the shutdown of the Kelihos botnet this week by Microsoft and Kaspersky. It is the third such action by the Microsoft Active Response for Security (MARS) initiave in recent memory. Taking down botnets is always good news and even better Microsoft named an individual defendant in their US court […]
Unsatisfied with stealing bank account information from their victims, cybercriminals steal frequent flyer miles, too. The miles are used as currency among some of the miscreants, according to a report released today by the malware fighters at the Kaspersky Lab. “In one IRC [Internet Relay Chat] message, a cybercriminal was selling access to a Brazilian […]
It was not so long ago we saw Google blacklist complete sets of subdomains such as the co.cc domains. (http://www.seroundtable.com/co-cc-google-removal-13644.html) These were known to be hosting malicious websites. About the same time, I also started to investigate new ways of identifying domains connected to malicious content by analyzing the DNS information. During my research I […]
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