Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Following a friendly heads up from someone yesterday morning, I re-loaded the
following Kraken samples into my honeypot:
1d51463150db06bc098fef335bc64971
65b958bf6f5eddca3d9455354af08b6f
6ec7d67d5553cbec2a99c7fbe385a729
7ecef2f126e66e7270afa7b803f715bc
8fd8c67103ec073d9303a7fbc702f89a
and began monitoring them. Each sample proceeded to update itself;
the updated binary is around 160KB, given a random name and
placed in the system32 directory, and no longer has an imagefile icon.
The names/MD5 values of ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious email in favour of Web-based attacks, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users.
The company saw the number of Trojan downloader programs it removed from Windows machines jump by 300 percent, according to Jimmy Kuo, principal architect ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
With all the high storage devices like the iPod classic going up to 160GB and just fitting in your inside pocket, people are getting more scared of data loss. Even Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix recently saw someone at a client site using an iPod to pull corporate data onto it ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
For the past few months, we've shown how Linux has emerged from its early murky reputation of being cool to have but impractical to use. And there's no question it's refreshing to use an entire desktop system with nary a Microsoft or Apple product. But as some of our readers ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The Captcha used in the current version 8.1 of PHP Nuke can be deciphered with 100% accuracy. more information can be found here:
http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=6
Exploit Code: http://www.rooksecurity.com/exploits/php_nuke_captcha.zip
What is so interesting about this captcha is that it is incredibly wide spread. Variants of this captcha are being used by big names like Paypal. ...
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