Friday, April 18th, 2008
A bot is a computer program installed on a compromised machine which offers an attacker a remote control mechanism. Botnets, i.e., networks of such bots under a common control infrastructure, pose a severe threat to today’s Internet: Botnets are commonly used for Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, sending of spam, or ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
First it was do-it-yourself malware and phishing toolkits, then it was specialized sites selling stolen FTP credentials and credit card accounts, and now it’s the next phase in cybercrime: crimeware as a service.
Researchers at Finjan, MarkMonitor, and Trend Micro are among those seeing a new cybercrime business model, where ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A new worm has been discovered exploiting the ISS/PAM ICQ module vulnerability. The worm payload is contained in a single 1025-byte UDP packet with a fixed source port of 4000 and a random destination port. Only the first 470 bytes of the payload are the working code of the worm; ...
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