Tag Archives for malware
Kraken
DarkReading has the details: At 400,000 bots Kraken is twice the size of Storm. Found at 50 of the Fortune 500. Undetectable in 80% of infected machines. Regularly updates its binary. Kraken’s bots and command and control servers communicate via … Continue reading
Malware + Canadian Health
Critical component of state legitimacy for many nation-states: The infection began with just a few computers but spread like a Prairie grass fire, eventually knocking out 1,308 work stations in three cities and taking more than a month to eradicate, … Continue reading
Hijacking the State
Take over the state’s connectivity machinery and do with it what you will: Is Vietnam the next haven for cybercrime? The country is apparently facing a major Internet security crisis, with some 95% of its PCs infected with viruses and … Continue reading
Spam + Language Skills
SFGate: These hacker help-wanted ads are appearing on underground Internet channels as malicious code designers increasingly want programmers with foreign-language skills to help launch country-specific attacks, security vendor McAfee Inc. said in a report released today. Hackers want to craft … Continue reading
Cost to Hack GSM: $1,000 – $100,000
InformationWeek: The 64-bit encryption method used by GSM, known as A5/1, was first cracked in theory about 10 years ago, and researchers David Hulton and Steve, who declined to give his last name, said today that expensive equipment to help … Continue reading