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Symantec Security Response Weblog: DNS Botnet Phun

DNS Botnet Phun Over the years, IRC channels have been a favourite communications method between back doors and their command centers because they are so simple to set up and use. The IRC protocol is easy to use can also be easily configured to travel over an arbitrary TCP port so its not easy block...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 07-02-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Symantec Security Response Weblog: DeepSight HoneyNet Detects Obfuscated Attacks for MS07-033 and Xunlei WebThunder

DeepSight HoneyNet Detects Obfuscated Attacks for MS07-033 and Xunlei WebThunder Recently, a DeepSight honeypot was compromised by a rogue website that served a variety of malicious scripts to users. From the dozens of websites that we investigate everyday, what makes this case special is the fact that...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-22-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
SANS Internet Storm Center - MPack Analysis

MPack Analysis Published: 2007-06-20, Last Updated: 2007-06-20 21:42:28 UTC by Marcus Sachs (Version: 1) We mentioned a large MPack compromise in a diary two days ago. Since then we've been accumulating more information about what is going on behind the scenes. Earlier today VeriSign/iDefense released...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 06-20-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, AntiVirus Information, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Robert Hensing's Blog : MoAXB - Month of ActiveX bugs

MoAXB - Month of ActiveX bugs So the "MoXB" theme continues as a trend with security researchers - with May 2007 bringing us the "Month of ActiveX Bugs" (MoAXB). One thing that may be causing some confusion out there are the first few bugs which involve a 3rd party product that allows...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 05-04-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Olympic Fans May Fall for Unpatched MS Excel Vuln | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Olympic Fans May Fall for Unpatched MS Excel Vuln March 9th, 2008 by Joseph Cepe XLS files specially designed to exploit a currently unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Excel (identified as CVE-2008-0081 ) are reportedly being sent as email attachments in the wild. The attachments, which arrive either...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-10-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Microsoft Office, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Microsoft Live Hotmail Under Attack by Streamlined Anti-CAPTCHA and Mass-mailing Operations 04.10.2008 - 10:54 AM - Websense Security Labs

Blog Microsoft Live Hotmail Under Attack by Streamlined Anti-CAPTCHA and Mass-mailing Operations 04.10.2008 - 10:54 AM Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker™ technology has discovered that spammers in their recent tactics have drawn their attention towards traditional and infamous Hotmail, aka Live Hotmail...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 04-11-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Flash w/ SQL - F-Secure

Flash w/ SQL Posted by Sean @ 17:16 GMT | postCount('00001446'); Comments There are reports of a critical vulnerability affecting current versions of Adobe Flash and evidence of it being exploited in the wild. Versions including and previous to 9.0.124.0 are reported to be at risk . However ...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 05-28-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Internet Applications, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime, Software Vulnerabilites
Abusing Our Sympathies: Sichuan Earthquake Trojan - McAfee

Abusing Our Sympathies: Sichuan Earthquake Trojan Friday May 23, 2008 at 10:04 am CST Posted by Shinsuke Honjo Trackback Malware authors make use of any opportunity to spread malware. Using hot topics is one of the methods to attract users to click on malware files. Recently, we received a specially...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 05-28-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Microsoft Office, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime, Software Vulnerabilites
Onslaught of fake Microsoft patch spam - Date:06.30.2008 - Websense

Onslaught of fake Microsoft patch spam Date:06.30.2008 Threat Type: Malicious Web Site / Malicious code Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a substantial number of spam messages utilizing a reliable social engineering trick that lures users to download a Microsoft critical security...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 07-09-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Spam\Phishing, Configuration Managment, Cybercrime
Storm Worm's Lazy Summer Campaigns - Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge

Thursday, July 31, 2008 Storm Worm's Lazy Summer Campaigns The Storm Worm-ers seem to be lacking their usual creativity in respect to the usual social engineering attacks taking advantage of the momentum we're used to seeing. These days they're not piggybacking on real news items, they're...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 07-31-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime

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