Mar 01
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Feb 28
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YOU WILL CONTINUE TO BE FUCKED WITH UNLESS YOU SHUT THIS SITE DOWN.
YOU ILLEGALLY SUPPLY USERS WITH SCAREWARE AND SCAM PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HARD EARNED MONEY
IN THESE TOUGH TIMES WITH THIS HORRIBLE ECONOMY, YOU SIR ARE AS HORRIBLE AS THE GOVERNMENT IS.
YOU DESERVE TO HAVE EVERYTHING TAKEN FROM YOU AND ALL OF YOUR FUNDS SIEZED.
WE WILL TAKE YOU DOWN ONE STEP AT A TIME. YOU HAVE BEEN PUT ON NOTICE, JUST AS EVERY OTHER SCAREWARE SUPPLIER HAS BEEN.
HACKERS PWNING HACKERS…BUT THIS TIME, ITS FOR FUCKING REAL. NO MORE BLACKHAT, NO MORE WHITEHAT, WE, THE COMMUNITY OF TRUE HACKERS WILL MAKE YOU SEE YOUR FAULTS. YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE COMMUNITY AND YOU WILL FALL.
–This is dedicated to every true hacker on the internet and IRL. This is dedicated to all of those who have been scammed by these frauds. You WILL have justice.
c0dy, Rose, Order Zero, InsaneGame, E, Novalok, heats1nk, cp, v1z10n, firemaker, AtlantiQ, and DaSteem. We are h4cky0u, and this is our manifesto.
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YOU HAVE BEEN PUT ON NOTICE
Feb 26
Spyware antispyware-com, copyright, double, feedback, google, home, open-source, polls, polls-archive, security, september-2007, source, Spyware, spyware-malware, spyware-news, threat-database, Uncategorized, user, vista
As always, exercise caution when following advertisements.
So says PC World in a post saying eWeek.com was infiltrated by hackers using Google’s DoubleClick banner ads as a vehicle.
“Websense caught the malicious coding and published its results, which spurred eWeek to scour its code and remove all phony advertisements,” says the story, going on:
The pest, named Anti-Virus-1, is complicated and smart. The advertisements are for antivirus software, and when a user clicked on them, the ads redirect to a pornography Website through a series of iframes. Then a PDF pops up loaded with evil code, exploiting a weakness currently festering in the Adobe systems; or the file index.php redirects to the rogue ad server. The server places a file named “winratit.exe” into the user’s temporary files folder and stays there without any user interaction.
eWeek may not be the first popular Website to be attacked, the story adds.
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Google?s DoubleClick as virus carrier
Feb 25
Spyware antispyware-com, auction, auctiva-com, copyright, critical-adobe, feedback, google, home, microsoft, open-source, polls, polls-archive, security, source, Spyware, spyware-malware, spyware-news, threat-database, Uncategorized
Auction tools site Auctiva.com has was unwittingly involved in a malware attack late last week, says The Register.
The incident came to light public after Google’s malware system warned that Auctiva.com was infected, and eBay users, “complained of security problems involving Auctiva.com on eBay’s forums around the same time,” says the story, continuing:
Auctiva.com acknowledged a problem on Saturday, initiating a clean-up operation that restored the site (albeit operating off fewer servers) a few hours later. It took other Auctiva.com webservers offline in rotation as a precautionary measure on Monday, in a move that allowed it to pinpoint the problem. Auctiva said the infection originated in China.
The site was finally restored to full health on Tuesday morning but, “Surfers who visited the site between Thursday and Saturday afternoon were potentially exposed to malicious scripts, which attempted to exploit IE vulnerabilities to serve gaming password stealing Trojans onto vulnerable systems, security blogger Dancho Danchev adds,” adds The Register.
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Auctiva.com malware victim
Feb 20
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Adobe has admitted there’s a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 and earlier versions.
“This vulnerability would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system,” it says.
“There are reports that this issue is being exploited.”
The comopany says it’ll release updates for Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 by March 11, 2009.
“Updates for Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8 will follow soon after, with Adobe Reader 7 and Acrobat 7 updates to follow.
“In the meantime, Adobe is in contact with anti-virus vendors, including McAfee and Symantec, on this issue in order to ensure the security of our mutual customers,” it says.
“A security bulletin will be published on http://www.adobe.com/support/security as soon as product updates are available.
All documented security vulnerabilities and their solutions are distributed through the Adobe security notification service. You can sign up for the service at the following URL: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=szalert
Affected software versions: Adobe Reader 9 and earlier versions; and, Adobe Acrobat Standard, Pro, and Pro Extended 9 and earlier versions.
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Critical Adobe vulnerabilities
Feb 19
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There’s big money to be made for the developers and purveyors of rogue security products, says bleeping computer.com.
And that’s led to the creation of “inventive social engineering attacks on the part of these types of software in order to trick you into purchasing their software,” says the story, going on:
While analyzing a new rogue anti-spyware program called Anti-virus-1, we saw a new method that these programs are using to trick infected users into purchasing their program.
When we installed Anti-virus-1 in order to write our removal guide, we noticed that it added a series of entries into the Windows hosts file.
Adding them entries into the HOSTS file would mean instead of going to legitimate sites, victims would be redirected to a site under the control of the developers of Anti-virus-1, states bleeping computer.com.
Its not uncommon for malware to add entries to your HOSTS file, ‘but what is new is the content being shown to you when you visit these sites,” it says, continuing:
We have to remember that the purpose of any rogue software is to trick you into thinking it is legitimate and then to have you purchase it. One of the best ways to convince someone that something is not only legitimate, but a quality product, is for a well known and respected site to give it a good review. This is exactly what Anti-virus-1 is doing.
The, “amount of social engineering techniques that Anti-virus-1 uses is the most I have seen so far in a rogue,” says the author, adding:
“In this rogue alone, they use fake security alerts, screen savers showing a blue screen crash caused by a spyware and then a fake reboot, Internet Explorer hijacks, and now fake review sites. It really comes as no surprise why so many people are tricked into purchasing these types of software.”
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Skilled social engineering helps malware makers
Feb 16
Spyware antispyware-com, copyright, feedback, home, information, internet, malware, microsoft, open-source, orkut, polls, polls-archive, security, software, Spam, Spyware, spyware-malware, threat-database, Uncategorized
“The blogosphere simply loves to slurp up social-networking traffic stats, and on Monday we got a nice tasty serving of them with some new numbers from Compete.com for the month of January,” says CNet News.
“The results? Facebook is in the lead, with about 68 million unique visitors, well ahead of MySpace’s 58 million. (The two are pegged at 1.1 billion and 810 million page views, respectively.)”
Close to the bottom at #21 is Google’s Orkut, used principally in Brazil and India, but it has another distinction.
Like many other sites on the list, , too, is now being used by cyber criminals to carry malware that can compromise a victim’s computer, says Trendlabs.
“Spoofed emails which claim to be from Orkut inform the recipient that their account has been found fake and is doing illegal activities such as sending out spam to other Orkut members,” it says, giving as an example:
Problems with your profile.
Dear user,
Your profile was reported to be containing illegal information, and will be blocked in the next 48 hours.
You are probably using non-authorized or copyrighted information.
To see all the information and instructions required to normalize your account, click here.
This will be the last notification sent from our system, and in case you do not perform any required action, your profile will be blocked definitely.
ATTENTION: your request will be analyzed by our team and will be subject for approval.
To get more details about your profile, download the software below:
Recipients, “are given 48 hours to and activate of their profile by clicking the given link,” says TrendLabs, adding:
“Upon clicking the link they will be redirected to a website where they are prompted to download a file which is found to be a malware detected as TROJ_DLOADER.WKV.”
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Orkut joins the Malware gang
Feb 09
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French fighter jets were ground bound after military computers were attacked by a Microsoft virus, says Agence France-Presse.
They couldn’t download flight plans because their databases were infected by the virus, which they’d been warned about several months ago.
“At one point French naval staff were also instructed not to even open their computers,” says AFP, going on:
Microsoft had warned that the “Conficker” virus, transmitted through Windows, was attacking computer systems in October last year, but according to reports the French military ignored the warning and failed to install the necessary security measures.
The French newspaper Ouest France said the virus had hit the internal computer network at the French Navy.
Jérome Erulin, French navy spokesman told the paper: “It affected exchanges of information but no information was lost. It was a security problem we had already simulated. We cut the communication links that could have transmitted the virus and 99 per cent of the network is safe.”
The French navy admitted it had to return to telephone, fax and post, says AFP, adding:
“Naval officials said the ‘infection’ was probably due more to negligence than a deliberate attempt to compromise French national security. It said it suspected someone at the navy had used an infected USB key.”
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Microsoft virus downs French jets
Feb 02
Spyware antispyware-com, copyright, crime-on-the, federal, feedback, home, increase, internet, open-source, Phishing, polls, polls-archive, security, source, Spam, Spyware, spyware-news, threat-database, Uncategorized
Internet crime has intensified in the past six months with crooks cashing in on economic confusion and anxiety.
Consumers and businesses alike are being targeted, says The Australian, going on:
Thieves are sending out phoney emails and putting up fake Web sites pretending to be banks, mortgage-service providers or even government agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Federal Deposit Insurance.
Mobile and Internet-based phone services have also been used to seek out victims.
The object: to drain customer accounts of money or to gain information for identity theft.
More than 800 complaints have been logged by the National White Collar Crime Center in the US, so far this year from checking-account customers in the US about mysterious, unauthorized transactions of $10 to $40 that appear on monthly statements, says the story, and the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Centre, “confirms a increase in cyber-attacks.”
Most attacks to be “scattershot” with spam emails”blasted randomly to thousands of computer users at once,”” says The Australian, continuing:
“Now crooks are starting to single out specific targets identified through prior research, a tactic called “spear phishing.” In these attacks, emails are sent to the offices of wealthy families or to corporate money managers, for example. They address potential victims by name and company or appear to come from an acquaintance.”
Moreover, identity thieves have become, “increasingly sophisticated in recent years,” the story has says Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a non-profit public interest research group, saying.
“It used to be you could pick them out by their bad grammar, but now it’s much more difficult,” she says. “You really have to be careful.”
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Internet crime on the increase
Jan 13
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Businesses, governments and educational institutions says there were 50% more data breaches in 2008 than in 2007 with the personal records of at least 35.7 million Americans at risk, according to a new study.
The Identity Theft Resource Center reported 656 breaches at the end of 2008, “reflecting an increase of 47% over last year’s total of 446,” it says, going on the financial, banking and credit industries, “have remained the most proactive groups in terms of data protection over all three years”
The Government/Military category has dropped nearly 50% since 2006, moving from the highest number of breaches to the third highest, says the ITRC, but, “the business community still needs to enhance and enforce data security measures”.
Only 2.4% of all breaches had encryption or other strong protection methods in use, and only 8.5% of reported breaches had password protection, says the study.
“It is obvious that the bulk of breached data was unprotected by either encryption or even passwords,” it states, continuing:
Sadly, these trends continue to plague companies and government alike, despite education on safer information handling, new laws and regulations. Mal-attacks, hacking and insider theft, account for 29.6% of those breaches that reported the causal factor. Insider theft, now at 15.7%, has more than doubled between 2007 and 2008. On the other hand, data on the move and accidental exposure, both human error categories, showed noteworthy improvement, but still account for 35.2% of those breaches that indicate cause.
Electronic breaches (82.3%) continue to outnumber paper breaches (17.7%). While there were 35.7 million records potentially breaches according to the notification letters and information provided by breached entities, 41.9% went unreported or undisclosed making the total number of affected records an unreliable number to use for any accurate reporting.
The ITRC strongly advises all agencies and companies to:
- Minimize personal with access to personal identifying information.
- Require all mobile data storage devices that contain identifying information encrypt sensitive data.
- Limit the number of people who may take information out of the workplace, and set into policy safe procedures for storage and transport.
- When sending data or back-up records from one location to another, encrypt all data before it leaves the sender and create secure methods for storage of the information, whether electronic or paper.
- Properly destroy all paper documents prior to disposal. If they are in a storage unit that is relinquished, ensure that all documents are removed.
- Verify that your server and/or any PC with sensitive information is secure at all times. In addition to physical security, you must update anti-virus, spyware and malware software at least once a week and allow your software to update as necessary in between regular maintenance dates.
- Train employees on safe information handling until it becomes second nature.
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2008 data breach total soars: report
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