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Ransomware, An Evolution

02

Mar

2012

Malware, like anything else, runs in cycles. And as of late, trends seem to be pointing to extortion as the latest developing theme. The ransom theme was given center stage April of last year after an attacker targeted Hyundai Capital’s network in South Korea and swiped copious data belonging to more than 420,000 customers. The […]

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Increased usage of unregistered spam domains

27

Oct

2011

Consider the spam email below: It promotes an online casino site. URL filtering systems that block access to such sites usually run a few checks before adding the URL to the “spam” category. One of these checks is that the URL is registered. Once this is known the date of registration can be checked – […]

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Step 1 – infect millions of computers. Step 2 – ?

19

Sep

2011

Someone somewhere is trying hard. The “someone” is a cybercriminal or organization, and since the 8th of August they have been trying hard to infect millions of computers worldwide. The purpose of this vast computing force is still not clear. The attacks of the last month have made extensive use of email-attached malware, resulting in […]

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