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Social Engineering: Facebook Photo
Please welcome a guest-blogger, Sarah Turner, who authored today's report. Sarah is a malware analyst in the UAB Computer Forensics Research Laboratory and is the editor of our daily "Emerging Threats...
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Lessons from the First Cyber Cops
I was so excited to see Bob Gourley's blog post "A Lesson From the First Cyber Cops" which is how I learned about an event on May 16th hosted by the Atlantic Council. As part of a program called the...
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What about the Social Security Numbers? (The Utah Data Breach and your SSN)
The Utah Data Breach This week the continuing saga of the Utah Medicaid Data Breach continued to unfold. If you haven't been following the story, here's the play-by-play:April 4 - State Agencies...
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Soldier Auto Escrow Scam
Last night I got an email from a student ... My brother is wanting to buy a car that is in the UK. The seller is claiming she will get free shipping from military affiliation. She wants to conduct the...
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Carder Christopher Schroebel gets Seven Years
21 years old and thinking about Cybercrime as a career choice? Think again. Seattle-based U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan told a press conference back on June 11, 2012 "People think that cybercriminals...
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Tax Season is Malware Season
In the United States, personal income taxes are due for every worker on April 15th. The period of time from about January 31st until April 15th is when most of us file our taxes, which means Cyber...
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New Spam Attack accounts for 62% of our spam!
A new spamming botnet seems to be on the scenes, distinguishing itself with an extremely high spam volume, a great diversity of email subjects, and an amazingly diverse collection of URLs, mostly...
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Boston Marathon explosion spam leads to Malware
A new malware spam campaign, claiming to provide videos regarding the Boston Marathon explosion tragedy, is infecting computers and sending spam at a rate that is unprecedented in more than a year. The...
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Boston Explosion Spammer shifts to Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
Yesterday recipients of the Malcovery Today's Top Threat report were among the first to get a detailed analysis of the new spam campaign offering videos of the Boston Explosion. Our normal practice is...
View ArticleCyber Aspects of the Pentagon's new China report (A2/AD, CNE)
This week the Pentagon released their Annual Report to Congress, Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2013. While the 83-page report details all aspects of...
View ArticleSpyEye Botherder BX1 - welcome to Georgia!
Timeline: December 20, 2011 - Federal Indictment was filed in chambers December 21, 2011 - Arrest warrant issued to US Marshalls March 2012 - MicrosoftDCU, FS-ISAC, and NACHA vs. Zeus - the Microsoft...
View ArticleAlabama Identity Theft in FTC Annual Consumer Sentinel Report
Each year the Federal Trade Commission puts out a report called the Consumer Sentinel Report that is not a statistical projection about Identity theft and fraud, but a listing of actual complaints...
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ATM Cashers in 26 Countries steal $40M
CBS News in New York has a video on their website this morning title Cyber-attacks behind possibly record-breaking bank heist. Former FBI Assistant Director John Miller shares the story and says "We've...
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The Kelihos Botnet: Spam Data Mine + i2 Analyst Notebook
On April 17th & 18th, 2013, we blogged about spammers who were using the Boston Marathon Explosion and the Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion to dramatically increase the size of their botnet. The...
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Vietnamese Carders arrested in MattFeuter.ru case
Eleven Cyber criminals ArrestedI'm always pleased to see international cooperation in cybercrime investigations! This afternoon we received the news from the UK's SOCA, (the Serious Organised Crime...
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"Royal Baby" & Other CNN spam leads to malware
As many sources reported earlier today, an email claiming to be from CNN's "Scribbler" provided a link to "Watch Live Hospital Updates" of the Royal Baby: But what do Harrison Ford, President Obama,...
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When Parked Domains Still Infect - Internet.bs and ZeroPark
Last night I was discussing the Kelihos botnet with some friends. There had been several previous attempts to “Kill Kelihos” and I decided to refresh myself on those. In doing so, I ran across the...
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Anonymous, #OpBankster, and the Too Many Nancy's Problem
The current Anonymous "#OpBanksters" seems to have very little in common with the original operation by the Anonymous Portuguese group that was originally posted on YouTube back on April 14, 2013....
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Cross Brand Intelligence and Phishing
While there is certainly a reason to shut down any site imitating your company as fast as possible, we have to always consider what the implications are of understanding the Cross-Brand Intelligence...
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Fake AV Malware Hits the Android
Mobile Defender - the last line of protectionHaving studied malware delivered by spam for the past seven years, it is a fairly rare event for me to be amazed by something new, but that is exactly what...
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