Symantec has become aware of a new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) crimeware bot known as “Zemra” and detected by Symantec as Backdoor.Zemra. Lately, this threat has been observed performing denial-of-service attacks against organizations with the purpose of extortion. Zemra first appeared on underground forums in May 2012 at a cost of ?100.Figure 1. Zemra […]
Using Amazon Web Services’ new Server Side Encryption feature, enterprises will at no extra cost be able to encrypt data stored on the company’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon said on Tuesday. The Server Side Encryption feature has been added to simplify the process of protecting data stored on S3. Previously, enterprises had to choose […]
With the leak of ZeuS source code, we expected that more cybercriminals would craft their own HTTP controlled bots based on ZeuS.Last week, we started to see the first generation of modified ZeuS based on the leaked source code, called Ice IX. According to the seller’s post on underground forums, one of Ice IX’s main […]
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