Despite being reported as “out of business” in late July/August, (see this blog, and this article as well), Neosploit, one of the most widely used tools by cybercriminals, clearly hasn’t ceased to exist . In fact, we have recently confirmed a highly enhanced Neosploit 3.1 installation to be out and about, and serving Malweb to [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
Blocking legitimate sites in real-time
I Ran into this on Slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/21/1827209.shtml. It seems like the Google filter for malicious sites was blocking a whole domain name – including all sub-domains, which happened to be a dynamic DNS provider. A Big false positive, and a big problem to all the legitimate sites that were hosted using this domain. Disclosure – [...]
Snooping into Palin emails? Watch out for the criminals snooping on you!
Following the recent news on how an anonymous group has managed to take over Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email account; we have noticed some interesting happenings. As wikileaks which was the original posting location of the images taken from Palin’s yahoo inbox was unavailable for some time, copies of the wikileaks post started to appear on [...]
Less phish, more meat? Malweb proving to be more efficient than phishing scams.
In a somewhat below-the-radar report, the anti-phishing working group (APWG) Q1 report is for the first time in its report showing a decrease in the number of phishing reports towards the end of the quarter. In a startling (although expected) contrast – reports on crimeware, malware, Trojans and other malicious code (all delivered by Malweb!) [...]
Chrome, IE8, FF3 – is there anything new?
As websites are getting to be treated more like applications, users, both end-users and especially business ones, are moving from traditional old-school desktop applications (remember when “client-server” architecture was the thing?) to Software as a Service (SaaS), in-the-cloud, and just plain web applications. Security has been shifting from securing the local operating system to securing [...]