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Sunday, February 3, 2013
DNS Changer malware mastermind pleaded guilty
Remember the DNS Changer malware that infected at least four million computers in more than 100 countries, including 500,000 in the United States, with malicious software or malware ?
Valeri Aleksejev, 32 years old from Estonia, is the first of the seven individuals to enter a plea, admitting his guilt for his role in the global scam that netted approximately $14 million. He faces up to 25 years in prison, deportation and the forfeiture of $7 million.
The other six individuals have been named as Anton Ivanov, Vladimir Tsastsin, Timur Gerassimenko, Dmitri Jegorov, Konstantin Poltev, and Andrey Taame. Alekseev was the first large-scale Internet fraud criminal case came to trial.
The scam had several components, including a click-hijacking fraud in which Malware was delivered to victims' PCs when they visited specially crafted websites or when they downloaded phony video codec software.
The malware changed the DNS settings of the infected computers, and even in cases could change the DNS settings of the routers they were connected to.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
BackBox Linux v3.0
BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop, and designed for performing penetration testing, incident response, computer forensics, and intelligence gathering. It uses the Xfce desktop environment, and is developed by Raffaele Forte and a small but dedicated team.
This release include features such as the new Linux Kernel 3.2 flower and Xfce 4.8. Apart from the system major upgrade, all auditing tools are up to date as well.
What's new- System upgrade
- Bug corrections
- Performance boost
- Improved start menu
- Improved Wi-Fi dirvers (compat-wireless aircrack patched)
- New and updated hacking tools
- 32-bit or 64-bit processor
- 512 MB of system memory (RAM)
- 4.4 GB of disk space for installation
- Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
- DVD-ROM drive or USB port
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Malware Circulations via skype
The compact URL is still receiving a few clicks and till now, it has racked up over 1 Million clicks in four days, starting from October 6, 2012.
According to Bestuzhev, almost half the clicks generated within 48 hours of the release of this malware, indicating that a huge number of contacts must have been infected during this term.Nevertheless, the most pathetic part of it is that initially, only 2 of the present 44 antivirus engines identified the threat, but currently the number has increased to 27, which is still quite low. However, it also indicates that about 1 Million users must have clicked o the links and greeted infection on the links.
To strengthen the whole campaign, the malware distributors further translated the message into other languages including Latvian and Spanish ensuring that many Internauts are also included in this scheme.
Besides, the malware detected in this campaign is identified as Trojan.Win32.Bublik.jdb by Kaspersky, which is capable of controlling the affected machine. Beside the issue of Ransomware and click-fraud, ability to steal passwords associated with adult websites, file lockers, online banking and social media, including PayPal, Yahoo, Facebook, Netflix, The Pirate Bay, GoDaddy, and eBay is also raising concern in this case, added the security expert.
The Trojan also has the functionality of Autorun for spreading via USB devices. It has the ability of spreading through MSN Messenger and locally saved Skype passwords in the similar infected machine, thus switching automatically amid the available accounts.
As a recommendation, Kaspersky concluded that to safeguard oneself from this malware, don't click on links that are offered through Skype or through any other instant messaging service. Also, never download unknown archives and extract zip files for opening files, especially if you are unaware of the content
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