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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 184 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: userfriendly black hats debut crimeware service caas comments Discuss  
'Instantly infect your favorite Fortune 500 company'Security researchers have uncovered a new web-based service containing security credentials for more than 8,700 websites belonging to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. It allows miscreants to infect some of the internet's most popular destinations with a few clicks of the mouse.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 143 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: crimeware service big thing comments Discuss  
'Crimeware as a service', where criminals use online cybercrime services instead of running their own servers and software, is the latest development in Internet crime, according to a report. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 133 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: crimeware book available comments Discuss  
For some time now, Symantec has stressed that the online threat landscape shifted a few years back, away from hobbyist-driven threats towards financially driven threats. This trend has given rise to a class of malicious software known as "crimeware." I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Markus Jakobsson on a book, "Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses," which studies the problem and where it seems to be heading. The book is an edited volume in which we were fortunate to include read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 113 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn crimeware server exposes breadth data theft comments Discuss  
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46228-1.htmlBy William JacksonGCN.com05/06/08Last month Researchers at online security company Finjan uncovered a 1.4 gigabyte cache of stolen data from North America, Europe, the Middle East and India on a Malaysian server that provided command and control functions for malware attacks in addition to being a drop site for data harvested from compromised computers.“This is a unique example of what we have been talking about for the last year,” said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 65 days ago
Via: https://forums.symantec.com | Tags: crimeware book chat network world wednesday may pm et comments Discuss  
In my most recent blog entry, I mentioned that Markus Jakobsson and I recently collaborated on a new book: "Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses". Network World is hosting a live chat session, and attendees will be eligible to win one of ten copies of the book. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 65 days ago
Via: https://forums.symantec.com | Tags: crimeware book available comments Discuss  
For some time now, Symantec has stressed that the online threat landscape shifted a few years back, away from hobbyist-driven threats towards financially driven threats. This trend has given rise to a class of malicious software known as "crimeware." I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Markus Jakobsson on a book, "Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses," which studies the problem read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 30 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: beloved websites riddled crimeware comments Discuss  
Web 2.0 malware mash-up madnessSixty of the 100 most popular websites either hosted malicious content or linked to malicious websites at some point during the first six months of 2008, according to a new study by web security firm Websense.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 22 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: crimeware grifters scamming naive phishers comments Discuss  
Dishonour among thievesPhishing exploitation kits can be picked up for free on the internet but these packages are regularly backdoored, according to a new study.… read more »
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