Articles tagged with: criminals
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Thursday, 8 Dec, 2011
A Trojan (identified as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.VB.aoff) is targeting Windows-based systems by removing built-in AV software and clearing a path for cybercriminals to silently steal online banking credentials. The Trojan affects 'ntldr' the default boot loader in Windows.The Trojan is propagating as an attachment on an email. This attack vector relies on the victim clicking on the malicious link which then downlaods two malicious files from AWS. The malicious files are "xp-msantivirus" and "xp-masclean" which worm their way to the bootloader(ntldr). The malicious files replace the bootloader file with a malicious version of GRUB and ntldr then boots into
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Wednesday, 7 Dec, 2011
Android Insecurities
by Joey Peloquin
The article will begin with a focus on what the author calls Offensive Mobile Forensics, an analysis technique that mimics the approach an attacker would take in the event they acquired a lost or stolen device. Readers will notice some stark differences between iOS and Android analysis. Next, the author will discuss exploits on the Android system. Lastly, the article will wrap up with a discussion regarding mobile malware, which is far more pertinent due to the ongoing mobile malware epidemic facing Android mobile devices.
Phun with PhoneGap
by Mike Haworth
PhoneGap now (Apache Callback) allows web
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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
ISBN: 978-1439860694
RRP: $69.95
The first time that I quickly browsed through this book, I thought that maybe I was reading this in a slightly different language as there were new acronyms and different ways of thinking on how to process
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Monday, 17 Oct, 2011
A study of a Botnet creation process and the impact of a DDoS attack against a web server
by Stavros N. Shaeles and Ioannis D. Psaroudakis
Over the following paragraphs we are going to describe in steps, the procedure of setting up
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Wednesday, 21 Sep, 2011
A new cross platform Java Facebook proof of concept (PoC) hacking plug-in data mining tool could turn your closest friends into your worst enemies – social engineering anyone? The plug-in tool (created by a team at RISST),
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Thursday, 15 Sep, 2011
Mobile Malware Analysis
by Cory Adams
With the emergence of the Android OS into the mobile market, nation state hackers and criminals alike are actively conducting attacks against the OS and its users for information gathering and financial gain. A high reward
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Thursday, 25 Aug, 2011
In this article, Orlando presents the DDoS attack structure and the Botnet structure . He will explore DDoS attack, the Botnet prevention and the DoS defense systems. He discovers what the mainly motivations pushing hackers to commit criminals act with
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Thursday, 25 Aug, 2011
Most of the botnets currently used by cybercriminals are imple mented in traditional languages such as C++. More recent example are written in Java, achieving some degree of portability but the basically share the same limitations. All these botnet creators
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Tuesday, 23 Aug, 2011
The DDOS, a New „Old” Type of Attack!
by Orlando Pivi
In this article, Orlando presents the DDoS attack structure and the Botnet structure . He will explore DDoS attack, the Botnet prevention and the DoS defense systems. He discovers what the
Cyber Warfare
By Jason Andress, Steve Winterfeld
Publisher: Syngress
June U.S. 2011, July EMEA
www.syngress.com
Description
Cyber Warfare explores the battlefields, participants and the tools and techniques used during today's digital conflicts. The concepts discussed in this
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Thursday, 12 May, 2011
Cyber-criminals appear to be on the move, switching from Chinese and Eastern European IP addresses in favour of Canadian ones, according to security researchers.
In contrast, Canada has a better “cyber-reputation” and traffic from those servers may be regarded with
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Thursday, 12 May, 2011
The source code to the infamous
Zeus crimeware kit, which has been sold on underground forums for years, has been leaked and is now available for anyone to see if they know where to look.
Security researchers over the weekend
