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Dissecting ‘Operation Ababil’ – an OSINT Analysis – Part Two

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Oct

2012

With more crowdsourced intelligence on “Operation Ababil” published in the recent weeks, it’s time to revisit the campaign’s core strategy for harnessing enough bandwidth to successfully take down major U.S financial institutions. As you can remember, in Part One of the OSINT analysis for “Operation Ababil” I emphasized on the crowdsourcing campaign launched by Izz […]

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US Banks Targeted By Fraud Campaign

11

Oct

2012

Recent reports have stated that a massive campaign of fraud is planned to hit various US banks. Approximately 100 cybercriminals are said to be part of this planned campaign.It is believed that this attack will be launched using newly-developed malware related to the Gozi banking Trojan, which has been called Gozi-Prinimalka. Overall, the capabilities of […]

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Dissecting ‘Operation Ababil’ – an OSINT Analysis

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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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