Whenever you look at cybercrime/eCrime, the question always pops up – what is the link between this highly sofisticated economy and aggregation of technologies, with government affairs or cyberwarfare. The answer would usually be “it depends”… Actually depending on who you ask, and what level of involvement they have with studying cyberwarfare as well as [...]
Posts Tagged ‘eCrime’
Getting a business degree as part of Security Research?
What a great time to start thinking of travel – the weather is fairing up, June is here, and fortunately for me, I have a chance to take the driver seat again at another BlueHat conference! This time it’s in Brussels and I’m really looking forward to talking again about one of my favorite topics [...]
Credit cards on a clearance sale and your internet security
You may have already gotten yourself familiar with how eCrime works from our past research and field presence, but here is one more great example of this fascinating business: This article at the Washington Post covers the drop in prices of stolen credit cards. It talks about how a surge of “fresh merchandise” has hit [...]
Fighting eCrime? We are not there yet!
I was just reviewing the latest FBI report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) here (PDF), and although I’m sure that a lot of security vendors out there are going to jump on the “33% increase in internet fraud last year” statements, looking into the actual numbers, it’s important to realize how “off” they [...]
Are you Conficker-proof? Do you really need to be?
What a great way to sum up my last couple of posts – the Conficker media frenzy, and social aspects of web attacks. You can’t come up with these things anymore… Seems (for now) that the only real thing that came out of the Conficker issue is the fact that INFECTED machines started to look [...]
Who owns your online identity? Facebook squatters on the rise
I have just read a couple of excellent posts (on SquaredPeg, and InsideFacebook) that talk about something I have been preaching for a while – your online identity and how easily it can be manipulated (or falsely created). The posts talk about Facebook groups and accounts that have been created for the class of 2013 [...]
Christmas shopping online – make sure you get what you PAY for
In the line of our ongoing “education”, we all know by now that eCrime is no longer lurking right there waiting for victims to come knocking, but is rather working vigilantly to ensure that whatever picks up the most interest online at any given moment is being used to boost the profitability of eCrime. Having [...]
Hosting provider crackdown?
Recently, there has been a lot of focus from the security research community on a hosting provider named McColo corporation (out of San Jose, CA). Reports on spam, phishing and connections to Malweb distribution amongst other have been accumulating (including our own malicious server analysis which has been spotted to be administered from a McColo [...]
Obama Leads in US Presidential Election Poll – the eCrime Way
And the leader according to the highly non-scientific research done using Google for a specific attack vector is: Barack Obama. Obama related sites have managed to get infected in such a way that they attack their visitors in 364 separate instances, while McCain is right behind with 230 instances. As always, and as we have [...]
Taking the Red Pill Down the Rabbit Hole
I’ve been contemplating a title for this post for a long time, eventually I decided to merge two of my favorites (and leave the third alone: looking for the cuckoo’s egg). Basically, after a couple of weeks of almost nonstop work on a major research project (hence the relatively quiet blog), and some major news [...]