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Dissecting ‘Operation Ababil’ – an OSINT Analysis

28

Sep

2012

Provoked by a questionable online video posted on YouTube, Muslims from the around the world united in an apparent opt-in botnet crowdsourcing campaign aiming to launch a DDoS (denial of service attack) against YouTube for keeping the video online, and against several major U.S banks and financial institutions. Dubbed “Operation Ababil“, and operated by the […]

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NGRBot Spreads Via Chat

21

Sep

2012

NGRBot is a worm that propagates through chat messengers, the Internet Relay Chat channel, social networking sites etc. It steals FTP and browser passwords and can cause a denial of service by flooding.NGRBots use the IRC network for file transfer, sending and receiving commands between zombie network machines and the attacker’s IRC server, and monitoring […]

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MSRT August ’12 – What’s the buzz with Bafruz?

14

Aug

2012

For this month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release, we will include two families: Win32/Matsnu and Win32/Bafruz. Our focus for this blog will be Bafruz, which is a multi-component backdoor that creates a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network of infected computers (using C&C, for instance), and includes a nasty list of payloads, as well as unique means […]

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