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FBI IC3 2009 Report 14 Mar 2010 | 05:48 am
The Fbi released its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2009 report. The organization maintains that cyberfraud losses reported to them doubled year over year. The report contains what appears to ...
FakeAv Antivirus XP 2010 12 Mar 2010 | 02:13 pm
Same as we posted last week, Trojan.FakeAv continues to be one of the highest hitting families of malware prevented in the ThreatFire community again this week. And, because so many users continue usi...
Troyak-AS De-peered for Good? 12 Mar 2010 | 07:37 am
The victory over dozens of Zeus botnets that was declared over the past couple of days may have been premature, as the Troyak-AS upstream provider that was de-peered from its upstream providers was bu...
Click Fraud II 11 Mar 2010 | 07:53 am
Click fraud is a lot like shoplifting. It’s not the most shocking crime you know of, and it’s not really victimless. It is theft. But observing and identifying click fraud is more difficult than watch...
Delpiero Nabbed? 9 Mar 2010 | 12:09 pm
The Bangkok Post’s article on a Malaysian man’s arrest and extradition to the U.S., charged with identity theft, a part of a prosecution begun in 2008, exposes potentially the 12th person known only b...
Koobface Continued… 6 Mar 2010 | 06:08 am
The Koobface gang’s changing tricks and longevity are noted at a recent USAToday article. They’ve recently upped their activity on a major social networking site and user infections appear to have a q...
RSA Conference 2010 Keynotes and Presentations Online 5 Mar 2010 | 07:42 am
The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano was this morning’s keynote speaker at RSA Conference 2010, speaking about succeeding in the cybersecurity battle. She joins the list of promine...
Mariposa Wings Clipped 3 Mar 2010 | 01:49 pm
Spanish law enforcement nabbed three operators of the Mariposa botnet: “Authorities identified them by their Internet handles and their ages: “netkairo,” 31; “jonyloleante,” 30; and “ostiator,” 25.” ...
Waledac Ate Curb? 27 Feb 2010 | 07:03 am
A recently reworded post on Microsoft’s attempt to pursue malware distribution in the courts makes it appear that something permanent and substantial has happened in anti-malware efforts (demonstrated...
A Zbot Botnet Dubbed The “Kneber” Botnet 19 Feb 2010 | 11:34 am
Zeus is an extremely effective bot builder kit designed and developed to be sold in underground markets as a cybercrime kit, enabling buyers to easily build identity theft related spyware that evades ...
