By now cybercrime has become the fastest growing criminal enterprise of the 21st century, run by efficient organizations with great professionalism. Today, news headlines are mostly about large-scale breaches orchestrated by large criminal syndicates. But smaller one-man operations can be equally devastating to the unwitting home users and businesses. This reminds us that cyber criminals…
Read MoreSince its emergence in 2007, ZBOT (also known as ZeuS) has become one of the most prevalent botnets and widely distributed banking Trojans. This malware family is widely known as a notorious credential stealing toolkit. It uses form-grabbing through web injection to steal user credentials from legitimate websites. It also has the capability to send…
Read MoreIn the early 2000s, Africa gained notoriety due to the 419 “Nigerian” scam. This scam involved making payments in exchange for a reward for helping so-called high-ranking Nigerian officials and their families. While all the scams may not have necessarily originated from Africa, the use of Nigerian officials was imprinted upon the public consciousness, thereby…
Read MoreIn the first half of the year, the spam volume increased by 60% compared to the data last 1H 2013. We can attribute these to several factors: the prevalence of DOWNAD and the steady boom of malware-related emails with spam-sending capabilities (such as MYTOB). Prevalent threats like UPATRE and ZeuS/ZBOT also employed spam as its…
Read MoreDOWNAD , also known as Conficker remains to be one of the top 3 malware that affects enterprises and small and medium businesses. This is attributed to the fact that a number of companies are still using Windows XP, susceptible to this threat. It can infect an entire network via a malicious URL, spam email, and…
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