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Soldier SpyEyes a Jackpot

14

Sep

2011

Mass attack by “Soldier” ensnares major US corporations in its net, steals $3.2 million in 6 months, causes organizations and individuals to be vulnerable to future attack; 90+ other countries hit by shrapnel.For some time now, we’ve been investigating the operations of a certain cybercriminal: a young man in his early 20s who resides in […]

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Win32/Kelihos, Recruiting in a Country Near You

17

Aug

2011

As part of our botnet monitoring initiative, we recently stumbled across an interesting piece of news. The Win32/Kelihos botnet, a likely successor to Win32/Waledac and Win32/Nuwar (the infamous Storm worm), is now sending spam to recruit money mules. We captured two different spam templates used by the bot to generate spam messages. As shown in […]

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Operation Phish Phry – Revisited

22

Jul

2011

Like the career of a one hit wonder pop star, it started with a bang and went out with a whisper. Almost two years ago, the big news was about Operation Phish Phry. In October 2009, the FBI announced that almost one hundred people (half here in the US, half in Egypt) had been arrested […]

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