It’s about time the steady monologues are finally over and visitors can participate or start discussions themselves. I have to move away from my self-centered position where the topics are given to you. To do so I decided lately to install a forum software and offering you a place where we can talk about computer [...]
Nine ways how hackers propagate malware (2 of 2)
posted in Articles on May 6th, 2009
In the first part of this series I wrote about the different ways how attackers propagate malware by sending an infectious executable file or an USB memory stick to their victims or let them pick up an infected file in a file sharing network like emule or bittorrent. In this article, as promised in the [...]
Six ways how hackers protect themselves when unleashing malware (2 of 2)
posted in Articles on Apr 21st, 2009
In the first part of this series we had a closer look at the basic precondition how an attacker prepares his own computer to eliminate telltale traces when surfing the Internet. In this second part we will go into the details how they connect to the Internet anonymously without leaving a betraying IP address which [...]
The inner structure of a trojan horse
posted in Articles on Apr 15th, 2009
When analyzing the code of a Trojan horse it often contains methods and functions that can be assigned to typical function groups and modules. Even if the code and inner organisation seems to be chaotic and hard to understand because of its structureless appearance you can assign a function to at least one of these [...]
One week with spammers and hackers, day three.
posted in Articles on Apr 9th, 2009
As already mentioned in a previous posting I stumbled upon an old proxy server code that attracted my attention again. Driven by the same idea as at the first time, out of curiosity how the spammers and hackers do their job and who else is using this anonymizing srvices I modified and installed the script [...]