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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!)…
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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…
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Crimeware server catering to “grab and run†criminals
During our research for the latest Malicious Page of the Month that has just been released, we came across a domain that was being used as a command and control for the Crimeware that was executed on attacked machines. This domain was also used as the “drop site†for private information being harvested by that…
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On the (dis)merits of privacy
Following up on my last post, after filing a complaint with the abuse department of privacyprotect.org (and blogging about the problem), I have just received an update noting that: –quote– On investigating on your complaint , we have determined that the domain name “SPYWARESAFE.NET ” is in violation of the terms of usage of the…
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Taking down a malicious site – the good, the bad, and the ugly…
As part of the “closure” on the February Malicious Page of the Month, which involved meoryprof.info (taken down), and spywaresafe.net we have contacted the appropriate parties in order to notify them that these websites contain malicious code. Meoryprof.info was the first to buckle (probably under the press exposure), but spywaresafe.net have managed to stay afloat…