Suddenly an ad appears on the webpage on your screen. You try to delete it, but nothing works. You go to another page. And another and another. The ad keeps following you. It’s the newest ransomware scam from Russian hackers. The Ransomware Trojan is either dropped onto systems already compromised by other strains of malware, [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Sometimes it seems that the dark side is leading in the development of new technology. Technical journals and reports abound with examples. Last week there was a reference to quality control services for malware makers in a report from Cisco. The report cited a Russian site that for a fee tests malicious files against the [...]
Warren Franklin, a fellow cyber crime fighter, writes this morning, … you shouldn’t be too surprised to learn that there is a new malware trick. It’s called “quality assurance.” Malware distributors are outsourcing for quality assurance going to sites like virtest.com. According to Cisco, for a fee the site tests malicious files against the latest [...]
Fake Software: Cybercrime product of the year
Published by July 18th, 2009 in Botnets, CyberCrime, Viruses and Worms & Trojans. 0 CommentsIn its midyear report on cyber security, Cisco Systems names rogue anti-virus software the cybercrime product of the year. There is a lot of great software that you can get for little or nothing from the freeware and shareware communities. There is also a lot of very dangerous free software being pushed by cyber criminals. [...]