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This Week in Security News: Banks and Botnets

  • Posted on:August 17, 2018
  • Posted in:Current News, Security
  • Posted by:
    Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)
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Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the FBI warned U.S. banks of a wide-scale cybercrime campaign called ā€œATM cash-out,ā€ in which hackers use cloned ATM cards for fraudulent withdrawals. Also, a botnet called…

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Tags: botnetsDefConNecursPatch Tuesday

This Week in Security News: Botnets and Breaches

  • Posted on:February 9, 2018
  • Posted in:Current News
  • Posted by:
    Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)
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week in security

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, North Korean hackers overtook Adobe, Trend Micro Safety Solutions discovered new a botnet, and the threat of third-party cyber breaches made large corporations rethink their strategy. Read…

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Tags: botnetsbreachespolymorphismShareFileUber

Ambient Cloud News: Skype protocol has been reverse engineered

  • Posted on:June 2, 2011
  • Posted in:Cybercrime
  • Posted by:
    Dave Asprey
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This is pretty cool. I gave a talk last week at the Glue Conference in Denver about how ambient clouds ( http://cloud.trendmicro.com/good-clouds-evil-clouds-why-microsoft-has… )work and even used Skype as an example of a massive-scale ambient cloud.

This case raises some very important new questions around ambient clouds.

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Tags: Ambient cloudbotnetscloud computingCloud Securitycloud-based securityDDoSiaasPrivate CloudPublic CloudSecureCloudsecuritySmart Protection NetworkthreatsvirtualizationVulnerabilities

New type of cloud emerges: Exploits as a Service (EaaS)

  • Posted on:April 7, 2011
  • Posted in:Cybercrime, Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Dave Asprey
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Applying the latest cloud provisioning and marketing analytics technologies, they’ve created an entirely new type of cloud service, Exploits as a Service, or EaaS.

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Tags: botnetscloud computingCloud Securitycloud-based securitycybercrimecybercriminalsEncryptionGoogleiaaspaasSecureCloudsecuritySecurity as a ServicethreatsVulnerabilities

Good Clouds, Evil Clouds: Why Microsoft Hasn’t Lost Yet in Cloud Computing

  • Posted on:February 6, 2011
  • Posted in:Cybercrime
  • Posted by:
    Dave Asprey
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In a recent eWeek interview, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby described Conficker malware as ā€œthe world’s largest cloud.ā€ He’s right. Cybercriminals use Conficker to create massive clouds of remotely-controlled PCs capable of carrying out a variety of cyber-attacks, including DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on a scale larger than any centralized cloud provider could. We…

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Tags: botnetscloud computingCloud Securitycloud-based securitycybercrimecybercriminalsdatacenterDDoSEC2GoogleGoogle AppsiaasmalwareMicrosoftpaasPrivate CloudPublic CloudsaasSecureCloudsecuritySmart Protection Networksocial networking

Perimeter Inadequacies

  • Posted on:March 18, 2010
  • Posted in:Cloud
  • Posted by:
    Dave Asprey
0

While enterprises typically have robust perimeter security such as firewalls and network Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), malware occasionally slips through to compromise the endpoints.Ā Ā  Recent episodes involving the Zeus, Aurora/HYDRAQ, and Mariposa botnets have all thrived on compromised endpoints.Ā  A potential compromise at a medical clinic in Calgary/Canada that required…

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Tags: botnetsCloud Securitycybercrimeiaas

2010 – Year of the Zombie Cloud?

  • Posted on:December 14, 2009
  • Posted in:Cloud
  • Posted by:Rik Ferguson (VP, Security Research)
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2009 has been a notable year for malware and malicious online activity for a number of reasons and several of them relate to what is known as botnets. A zombie, or a bot, is a PC infected by malware that brings it under the remote control of a criminal. Criminals run networks that can range…

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Tags: botnetsconfickercybercrimecybercriminalsDDoSEC2koobfacemalwarezeus

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