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nelson : Malware bank fraud - Trojan steals bank logins, sends money to dupes who then wire it to the crooks in Ukraine
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nelson : MacOS botnet - Apples are now a large enough minority to be worth the trouble to attack
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nelson : FBI's spyware - The cops infect computers with keyloggers, too
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nelson : Malwarebytes - Recommended anti-malware software, newer than Spybot, etc.
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nelson : Conficker analysis - Amazingly detailed description of what the worm is doing
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Jeremy Zawodny : Interview with an Adware Author - Interview with an Adware Author: heh
Andy Baio : Interview with a former adware programmer - the lengths they went to avoid detection was pretty incredible
nelson : Adware Anatomy - fascinating article about how evil malware works
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nelson : Avoiding fake torrents - Practical advice for thieves who want to avoid being scammed
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gleuschk : The Facebook Virus Spreads - No Social Network is Safe - NYTimes.com - be smart out there, kids
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deusx : Apple - Support - Discussions - Clipboard being taken over through ... - The girl ran into this one tonight. Weird. Some popup or tab has a Flash movie embedded that repeatedly refreshes the clipboard with a nasty URL. "This has happened to me twice now, on two separate computers at work. My clipboard has been hijacked
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12 month ago
deusx : MAKE: Blog: Malware bots as papercraft - "These are fun, paper craft malware bots from Symantec to educate folks on PC viri/bad software"
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16 month ago
nelson : Major browser exploit - I know two people whose WoW accounts were stolen recently; this javascript attack may be how
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Hacker Economics 1: Malware as a Service - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
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21 month ago
nelson : Storm superworm - The other way to build a supercomputer
Rod Begbie : Gathering 'Storm' Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets - Analysis of the "Storm" worm. Cunningly designed to be as undetectable as possible, it's a frightening vision of what modern malware can be. [via] #
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25 month ago
deusx : Substitute teacher's conviction for porn popups set aside | The Register - "Julie Amero, the substitute teacher convicted of four felony counts when a computer in her classroom subjected seventh-graders to pornographic images, has been granted a new trial in light of fresh forensic information that came to light following h
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33 month ago
plasticbag : Google has built in Malware warnings! - Was looking for the official site for GECompanion, opened a bunch of windows and found this among them. It's a pretty smart thing for them to be doing...
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40 month ago
gleuschk : what is that file? - excellent resource to point family at
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 2 - Now in part two we finish the discussion by looking at how to own a malicious attacker's precious resources, which he planned to use against us, and then use these resources as a stepping stone to fully achieve our goals
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 1 - This article explores measures to attack those malicious attackers who seek to harm our legitimate systems. The proactive use of exploits and bot networks that fight other bot networks, along with social engineering and attacker techniques are all discuss
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Implementing and Detecting an ACPI BIOS Rootkit - Why target the BIOS?: (1). Survives Reboots and Power Cycles. (2). Leaves no trace on disk (3). Survives and reinfects installations of same OS (4). Survives and reinfects installations of new OS (5). Hard to detect (6). Hard to remove
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS - Insider attacks and industrial espionage could become more stealthy by hiding malicious code in the core system functions available in a motherboard's flash memory, researchers said on Wednesday at the Black Hat Federal conference
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42 month ago
kayodeok : StopBadware.org: Regaining Control of Our Computers - Badware is a term we use to encompass the broad range of malicious software that is sneaking onto people's computers, including spyware and deceptive adware. It can subvert your computer for the benefit for a third party, frustrate you with unwanted adver
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Inside the WMF Backdoor - In my opinion the backdoor is one caused by a security flaw and not one made for subterfuge. I sent my findings to both Steve and to Microsoft Monday morning, but because the issue continues to draw media attention I’ve decided to publicly document
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kayodeok : Rootkits in Commercial Software - Microsoft was faced with a predicament very similar to Symantec’s when they implemented Windows XP System Restore. Instead of cloaking the directory that stores restore points they create a directory in the root of each volume named System Volume I
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Looking at the WMF issue, how did it get there? - This was a different time in the security landscape and these metafile records were all completely trusted by the OS. To recap, when it was introduced, the SetAbortProc functionality served an important function
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