A team of US security researchers has engineered a way of hiding malware in sentences that read like English language spam. The work is a breakthrough because current network security techniques work on the assumption that the code used in code-injection attacks, where it is delivered and run on victims’ computers, has a different structure [...]

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According the latest Microsoft’s researches guessing FTP passwords is still a valuable way to harvest account information. People still forget or ignore to change their default password or change it that way attackers can easily guess. Microsoft releases password attack data Microsoft released data collected from an FTP-server honeypot, showing that attempts to guess passwords [...]

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Nice article about botnets, click fraud and spamming. You can find the original article (written by Yury Namestnikov) on www.viruslist.com. The Economics of Botnets In the past ten years, botnets have evolved from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from a single C&C (command and control center) into sophisticated distributed systems comprising millions of [...]

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I just stumbled across this botnet price list which was published by Kaspersky some months ago. Nice to know. Have a look … A sophisticated underground economy has grown up to exploit the millions of personal computers that have been infected with rogue software that turns them into “zombies” controlled by botnet masters, says an [...]

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In raids throughout Germany and Austria, police closed down a web gang which stole private credit-card data and used viruses to create a network of 100,000 robot computers, Germany’s Federal Crime Office said Wednesday. In Germany, three persons were detained during the Tuesday raids on 46 homes. One was held in Austria. Many computers were [...]

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