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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #150 on: January 26, 2010, 06:50:11 PM »
'Cyber Genome Project' kicked off by DARPA
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/26/cyber_genome_project/


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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/25/kaspersky_adsense_false_positive/

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #151 on: January 26, 2010, 07:27:48 PM »
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Another warning for the newbies that might not know better. Notice that it is supposedly from UPS but it is a fake and if opened by the unknowing, you get a virus.


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EARTHLINK VIRUS BLOCKER MESSAGE STATUS
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MESSAGE QUARANTINED

Virus Detected: CMU-10763-20100126

Message Details:
From: "UPS Support Jamie Mckinney" <tracking@ups.com>
Subject: UPS Delivery Problem NR 23911.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:04:42 +0200

For your protection, EarthLink Virus Blocker has quarantined a message sent to you because it contains a virus.


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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #152 on: January 26, 2010, 09:16:44 PM »
...Another warning for the newbies that might not know better. Notice that it is supposedly from UPS but it is a fake and if opened by the unknowing, you get a virus....

Yes, I got same warning from Gmail, Thanks Google!!, Gmail said it did not load that mail from my Yahoo inbox (POP Access) and leave it in there because of suspicion attachment of that mail.

I download attachment, scanned it and I found this great job from avast! antivirus: http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/a81c322675370b8bfcbc03e012b94b317d3f5a115b820ee04b43bb876ba7226b-1264525820
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Title: Message left on server: "UPS Delivery Problem NR 89904."
The message "UPS Delivery Problem NR 89904." from UPS Support Derrick Zimmerman (tracking [at] ups [dot] com) contained a virus or a suspicious attachment. It was therefore not fetched from your account xxxxxx [at] yahoo.com and has been left on the server.

If you wish to write to UPS, just hit reply and send UPS a message.


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The Gmail Team
in the above quote I've edited e-mail addresses
« Last Edit: January 26, 2010, 09:30:45 PM by Omid Farhang »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #154 on: January 27, 2010, 06:44:21 PM »

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #155 on: January 27, 2010, 08:37:56 PM »
Hi  malware fighters,

That it is dangerous to leave your desktop unattented, even just for a while, is an open door. See why?
Here: http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20100126/quicky-firefox-bookmarklet-backdoor/

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #156 on: January 28, 2010, 02:45:30 AM »
Hi malware fighters,

Spyeye is a hard to detect new bot on the market, costs for cybercriminals 500 euro, was to be used for instance in combination with the Chinese hack toolkit: http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/ms10-002-exploit-constructor/

Mentioned bot is a data stealer and invisible in the Windows process list...
http://malwareint.blogspot.com/2010/01/spyeye-new-bot-on-market.html

The malicious bot industry is getting bigger and bigger, and this is an alarming situation, my good friends.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #157 on: January 28, 2010, 03:18:42 PM »
Google Chrome flagged as insecure by Secunia
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=54533.0

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #158 on: January 28, 2010, 10:40:01 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

The number of botnets that uses HTTP to communicate with infested machines has doubled during the last six months. Traditionally botnets were commanded through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) , but that development has stopped. The number of IRC-based botnets stopped to grow at approx. 400, while HTTP-based botnets grew from 800 to 1600. That growth has to do with the low costs of HTTP-bot-building toolkits, according to Team Cymru, a non-profit anti-cybercrime organisation .

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These toolkits are getting more and more  functional and the ease to use  the HTTP interface will make that botherders has left the IRC-platform as communication channel massively. HTTP botnets are more and more used for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)-Attacks. "There are different ways to make money from this kind of attacks, while other alternative use of botnets are to be preferred with less risk."

Most Command & Controle servers, both for IRC and HTTP, are located in the United States of America. Also the North of Europe with the Netherlands, plays an important role. Despite of the fact that IRC-based botnets showed no growth, their number did not go down either. That is why Team Cymru predicts this kind of bots are to play a further role, but the future lies with the HTTP-based bots. Link: http://www.team-cymru.org/ReadingRoom/Whitepapers/2010/developing-botnets.pdf

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P.S. Another fact is HTTP-based bots can be easily relocated...and webadmins have monitored port
6667 while HTTP goes more under the detection-radar. Default and standard IPS/IDS systems just through DPI will filter for "/join".....  and then bye bye botnet. HTTP is more difficult while it looks like legit traffic,

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #159 on: January 29, 2010, 05:57:21 PM »
Malware Aims to Evade Windows 7 Safeguards

Windows 7 adds a number of new security features, but social engineering attacks mean that you can’t let your guard down.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/012810-malware-aims-to-evade-windows.html?page=1

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #161 on: January 29, 2010, 10:33:04 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #162 on: February 01, 2010, 05:12:22 PM »
CIA, PayPal under bizarre SSL assault - Plus hundreds of others

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/strange_ssl_web_attack/

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #163 on: February 01, 2010, 05:25:20 PM »
Hi malware fighter,

Have to post this here as well:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=54872.0

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #164 on: February 01, 2010, 05:41:31 PM »
Hi malware fighter,

Have to post this here as well:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=54872.0

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