Posts Tagged ‘miscreants’

Whitewashed Spam – How Antispam Laws Are Helping Spammers

May

2013

Anonymity disguised as freedom of expression and lack of clear cut laws makes cyberspace murky from a security point of view. Countries are waking up and realizing that there is a need for laws which enable authorities to catch and punish cyberspace miscreants; however, these miscreants are very crafty.Spammers are known to use ingenious methods […]

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BTC Acceptance Rising – Among Cyber-thieves

Apr

2013

While the actual Bitcoin currency might have its ups and downs, the notion that it is real actual money has by now been firmly implanted in the minds off miscreants everywhere, as shown by the steady increase in the number of detected btc stealer trojan samples: The Trojan.Dropper.PWS e-threat comes in a packed dropper which […]

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‘Reporters without Borders’ website misused in wateringhole attack

Jan

2013

As mentioned by me on Twitter, it seems that the entity or entities behind the watering hole attacks don’t care to be caught or detected, and it also seems that they don’t care if the Internet Explorer and Java vulnerabilities are patched. They act as opportunists and try to take advantage from the time frame […]

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