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Police Ransomware: How to Get Your Malware Noticed

28

Sep

2012

Recently, I talked at the VB2012 conference in Dallas about one of the recent developments in today’s threat landscape: the increasing prevalence of police ransomware. Earlier, Trend Micro published a white paper discussing this threat, titled The “Police Trojan”.The idea behind ransomware is relatively simple: the cybercriminals block the user from accessing their own computer. […]

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Pseudorandom domain name generation and the Blackhole exploit kit

05

Jul

2012

In this post I want to highlight one of the script injections we have been tracking for the past month or so, which is being used to redirect web traffic to exploit sites (running the Blackhole exploit kit). Two factors make this particular script injection worthy of discussion, namely: large scale attacks. Many legitimate sites […]

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Measuring Botnet Populations

02

May

2012

The following is excerpted from a talk I gave at the 2012 APCERT meeting in Bali, Indonesia in March, 2012. The topic was on botnet population measurements, something that we’ve been doing for many years and has grown in importance. What do we mean when we talk about measuring botnet populations? We are trying to […]

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