DonBot starts vigorous social networking campaign
This post is made on behalf of my colleague Mat Nisbet, Malware Analyst for Symantec Hosted Services. As of November 18, we have noticed a huge jump in the number of spam e-mails that contain a link to Twitter. Normally ...
8:36 am Thursday, November 19, 2009
The Worst is Yet to Come... Possibly!
9:23 am Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Mega-D (aka Ozdok) crippled
This post is made on behalf of my colleague Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst Researchers at the Fireeye intelligence lab recently decided to attempt to take down the Mega-D botnet after doing detailed analysis of its ...
3:43 pm Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Festi Botnet spins up to become one of the main spamming botnets
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst MessageLabs Intelligence has been tracking a new botnet, ‘Festi’ since the beginning of August. Gradually, Festi has steadily increased its output of spa ...
1:59 pm Thursday, November 05, 2009
Advance fee fraud lottery scam using a popular online file transfer service
This post is made on behalf of my colleague Nicholas Johnston On 27 October, MessageLabs Intelligence began tracking a small number of spam emails that included links to the popular online file transfer service, YouSend ...
10:58 am Monday, November 02, 2009
Bredolab trojan now using a popular social networking brand to spread
This post is made on behalf of my colleague Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst The Bredolab Trojan has been seen “in the wild” for a long time, but the people behind it constantly change the subjects and for ...
11:53 am Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Mail Bomber – it does more than you thought
After spending some time on analysing the mail bomber tool downloaded from spamfordz [dot] com, here is some interesting information noticed. Fig.1 Files contained in the tool package To get this work, one needs t ...
1:29 pm Thursday, October 15, 2009
Creating a Simple Botnet Using the AutoIT Scripting Language
This post is made on behalf of my colleague Manoj Venugopalan, Malware Analyst for Symantec Hosted Services. AutoIT, a free automation language for Windows platform-based development, is often used for scripting Windows- ...
4:55 am Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Rustock – The Botnet with a Heartbeat
Further analysis of Rustock reveals some interesting insights regarding how it seems to have settled into a remarkably predictable pattern of spamming in the last few months - so regular that it may be possible to set yo ...
8:02 am Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Evaluating Botnet Capacity
Botnets are now responsible for distributing 87.9% of all spam, an increase of 2.9% since Q2 2009. With approximately 151 billion unsolicited messages each day being distributed by compromised computers, understanding wh ...
10:46 am Tuesday, September 29, 2009