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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Blaze's Security Blog: Ransomware: a Q&A

Blaze's Security Blog: Ransomware: a Q&A: Ransomware A Q&A written by @bartblaze   Who creates them? What is their goal? How successful are they, and what is their recipe f...

Friday, January 16, 2015

Friday, January 9, 2015

Dynamoo's Blog: Malware spam: DO-NOT-REPLY Datasharp UK Ltd - Mont...

Dynamoo's Blog: Malware spam: DO-NOT-REPLY Datasharp UK Ltd - Mont...: This spam email pretends to be from a wholly legitimate company called Datasharp UK Ltd but it isn't, it is a spoof. Datasharp is not...

Monday, December 22, 2014

Zscaler Research: Compromised Wordpress sites serving multiple malwa...

Zscaler Research: Compromised Wordpress sites serving multiple malwa...: During our daily log monitoring process, we observe many interesting threat events. One such event led to a compromised WordPress site ...

Friday, December 19, 2014

Dynamoo's Blog: Malware spam: "Blocked Transaction. Case No 970332...

Dynamoo's Blog: Malware spam: "Blocked Transaction. Case No 970332...: This fake ACH spam leads to malware: Date :    19 December 2014 at 16:06 Subject :    Blocked Transaction. Case No 970332 The Automat...

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Dynamoo's Blog: Malware spam: aquaid.co.uk "Card Receipt"

Dynamoo's Blog: Malware spam: aquaid.co.uk "Card Receipt": This spam claims to be from the legitimate firm AquAid , but it isn't. Instead it comes with a malcious attachment. The email is a fo...

Sunday, December 14, 2014

That grumpy BSD guy: The Password? You Changed It, Right?

That grumpy BSD guy: The Password? You Changed It, Right?: Right at this moment, there's a swarm of little password guessing robots trying for your router's admin accounts. Do yourself a favo...

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Trojan7Malware: OphionLocker. New ransomware on the scene

Trojan7Malware: OphionLocker. New ransomware on the scene: This malware was discovered by a honeypot triggered during a malvertising campaign. The campaign used the RIG exploit ...

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Dynamoo's Blog: Something evil on 5.196.33.8/29

Dynamoo's Blog: Something evil on 5.196.33.8/29: This Tweet from @Kafeine about the Angler EK drew my attention to a small block of OVH UK addresses of 5.196.33.8/29 which appear to be...

Monday, December 8, 2014

w00tsec: Scan the Internet & Screenshot All the Things

w00tsec: Scan the Internet & Screenshot All the Things: During Defcon 22, @ErrataRob , @paulm and @Viss (mass)scanned the Internet and presented some Tips, Tricks and Results . Lots of people co...

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Inside VirusTotal's pants: A closer look at Mac OS X executables and iOS apps...

Inside VirusTotal's pants: A closer look at Mac OS X executables and iOS apps...: Virustotal has always been able to scan and provide verdicts for Mac OS X executables and iOS apps, these are just some examples: https://w...

The Cyber Security Sentinel: 2014-12-03 Phish of the Day

The Cyber Security Sentinel: 2014-12-03 Phish of the Day: Here's two I received in succession this morning: ========== Begin Phish Email 1 ========== Good day! We considered your resume to b...