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DDoS attacks targeting traditional telecom systems

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Jul

2012

DDoS affects many types of systems. Some have used the term TDoS to refer to DDoS or DoS attacks on telecommunications systems (Telecommunications Denial of Service). This is just another application for a DDoS attack, and was mentioned in 2010 by law enforcement and since discussed on a variety of blogs. Typical motives can be […]

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Ransomware Crimeware Kits

27

Apr

2012

In a recent blog we talked about Trojan.Ransomlock.K and the use of a control panel on a command-and-control (C&C) server which gave it the ability to serve localized social engineering messages to victims depending on their IP location. While at that time we had not yet encountered a crimeware kit for this threat, we have […]

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Thus spoke the Beninese: scammers hijacking Facebook chat

27

Jan

2012

Wasn’t it to my surprise when a friend’s son hit me up yesterday on Facebook chat. We don’t usually chat so I was curious as to what was going on.Although he 1st asked how I was, he quickly said he needed help to post an ad on a popular french classifieds website, leboncoin.fr. Although suspicion […]

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