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A new bot on the market: Beta Bot – It uses multilingual social engineering techniques to exploit the human user

May

2013

What does it do? When installed on a system, Beta Bot searches for a list of known security products it is said to target. Upon finding one of those programs installed, the bot starts its attacks as described later in the text. Doing so, it prepares itself to attack the av program by killing processes, […]

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A School for Cybercrime: How to Become a Black Hat

Jan

2012

Life looks good for Brazilian hackers: the absence of a specific law against cybercrime leaves them feeling so invulnerable that the bad guys are shameless about publicizing their thefts and showing off the profits of a life of crime. We showed some of this in a presentation at the latest Virus Bulletin Conference, and it’s […]

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Combating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Brazil, Latin America, and Everywhere Else

Nov

2011

One of the most disruptive attacks to deal with in today’s threat landscape is the distributed denial of service attack, often called DDoS. Using the resources of many other computers, an attacker can focus a vast amount of packets and power at a single resource and effectively knock it offline for as long a time […]

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