Posts Tagged ‘malicious purposes’

KOOBFACE Propagates Via Torrent P2P File Sharing

Aug

2011

The KOOBFACE botnet became known for using popular social network sites as vector for propagation and abusing these platforms for malicious purposes. Currently, it has been observed that KOOBFACE does not actively propagate via social networks, but rather propagates via a torrent peer-to-peer network through Trojanized shared application files.Based on our research, we found a […]

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Defcon descends on Las Vegas

Aug

2011

I’m here at Defcon watching the hacker masses share their information. As usual, it’s incredibly crowded, but the new venue at the Rio hotel is a welcome upgrade. Las Vegas is as hot and crazy as ever. It’s never a boring visit. So far there have been some great talks, and I’d like to highlight […]

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Japan Outlaws Creating Malware

Jun

2011

Last June 17, 2011, the Japanese parliament approved a revised proposal for criminal law against creating and keeping malware, also known as the cybercrime law. The key point about this revised criminal law is that malware writers will be penalized if malware was created and distributed under the following circumstances: Without a legitimate reason With […]

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