The following is excerpted from a talk I gave at the 2012 APCERT meeting in Bali, Indonesia in March, 2012. The topic was on botnet population measurements, something that we’ve been doing for many years and has grown in importance. What do we mean when we talk about measuring botnet populations? We are trying to […]
Two weeks ago, we wrote about the wrangle between Indian cybercrew The Lords of Dhamaraja and Symantec, in which the theft of some of Symantec’s source code was revealed. At the time, Infosec Island, which describes itself as an “online community, infosec portal and a social network all-in-one,” quoted a Symantec spokesman as saying: Symantec […]
The big malware story for me over the last month is probably the surge in exploit kit sites hosting the “Blackhole” kit. (BTW, nice write-up last month on the kit on Imperva’s blog.) Bad Guys like exploit kits because they are a convenient way to leverage the work of multiple specialists — it’s nice to […]
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