[Some interesting research reported by Aleksandr Matrosov] Not long ago we received interesting information from an independent security researcher from Russia, Vladimir Kropotov. (We will be presenting our joint research with him at CARO 2012). We started to research this information and found an interesting way to distribute by FTP the payload for the most […]
The Internet has played a significant role in the current conflict in Syria. The opposition has made increasing use of platforms such as Facebook to organize and spread their message. In response, supporters of the regime like the “Syrian Electronic Army” have sought to disrupt these activities by defacing websites and spamming Facebook pages. Recently, […]
My Russian colleagues Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov report that recently a cybercrime group called “Ready to Ride” has attracted their attention, by distributing malware of the Win32/Cycbot family. This group started in the fall last year, judging from the domain name registration date – readytoride.su was registered on 8th September 2010.Its primary activities were […]
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