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LURID: Attribution Isn’t Easy

Sep

2011

Determining who is ultimately behind targeted attacks is difficult as it requires a combination of technical and contextual analysis and the ability to connect disparate pieces of information together over a period of time. Moreover, any one researcher typically does not necessarily have all these pieces of information and must interpret the available evidence. Too […]

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Bitcoin currency collapse – where next for digital cash?

Jun

2011

Two years ago, in 2009, an open-source, peer-to-peer digital cash system launched. Cutely called Bitcoin, it was based on an academically-flavoured paper entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. The paper’s author, and the creator of the Bitcoin project, was the enigmatically-named Satoshi Nakamoto. No-one seems to know – or, more accurately, no-one is saying […]

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Eastern Europe malware trip to connect PC and Mac fake AV

Jun

2011

It all started with a fake Firefox installer from: firefox.dl-networks.in/firefox_4.0.1.exe This is a server located in the Ukraine, running Apache/2.2.17. Firefox 4 is indeed the latest version of the browser: Except the bad guys got the icon wrong… this one is for CCleaner. Here is the VirusTotal report (8/43). Upon installation the malware connects to: […]

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LURID: Attribution Isn’t Easy

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