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Real life Mafia Wars: Spy Eye tool kit goes after Zeus botnet
Peter Coogan at Symantec put up a very interesting blog post yesterday about a crimeware kit called SpyEye v1.0.7 (on sale now on Russian sites — $500) that has a module that will kill a Zeus bot infection on a …
Month of Russian Bugs
Ok, I made up the name “MoRB” and our analyst Dimiter, who is from Bulgaria, took a stab at the translation. Russian security firm Intevydis has said it will release Jan. 11-Feb. 1 previously undocumented vulnerabilities in popular commercial software …
Is botnet C and C headed for the cloud?
Researchers at HCL Technology, a strategic partner of CA, found a hacked server on Amazon’s Web Services’ cloud infrastructure working as a command-and-control server for the Zeus botnet. The researchers said the intruders probably found a server — a “target …
Sign up for H1N1 vaccinations? Zbot/Zeus alert.
Researchers are monitoring a massive spam campaign from the Zbot/Zeus botnet purporting to be instructions for signing up for H1N1 vaccinations with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Clicking on a link in the spam messages takes potential victims …
FDIC alert NOT
Malicious spam. Don’t go there. Zeus Trojan. Tom Kelchner Update October 28, 2009 The FDIC has posted a consumer alert about this here.
IRS NOT!
Don’t go there: The Zeus Trojan is being spread through a major spam campaign under the guise of a notice from the IRS. Spam emails contain a subject line of “Notice of Underreported Income.” If users follow a link in …
Telecom pulls plug on Real Host Ltd. – Zeus botnet provider
Swedish based telecom TeliaSonera has cut Internet connections to the Riga, Latvia servers hosting Real Host Ltd., a bullet-proof ISP and host of the Zeus botnet which is suspected of stealing financial information from millions of PCs, 3.6 million in …
Bots that destroy the operating system
Ugly. This time we are taking a close look about what things could happen with an infected computer when the running bot receives an specific command about to kill the Operating System. Not all type of bots usually have this …
Virus Bulletin 2008 keynote address
I was privileged and honored last week to give an address to Virus Bulletin delegates at the Virus Bulletin 2008 conference in Ottawa, Canada. I’ve posted it here, so if you’re masochistic enough to watch me bloviate for 40 minutes …
