Are We Loosing The War On CyberCrime?
Roger Grimes, Security Expert Adviser at InfoWorld thinks so. His argument goes like this
“You may have read the reports: We have captured Albert Gonzalez, one of the “world’s biggest malicious hackers.” Big deal.
I’ve been fighting cybercrime for more than 20 years, so you’ll have to excuse me if I’m a little jaded for thinking that this “huge” hacker is but another small-time player in the big-time world of cybercrime. In fact, I’m pretty sure that we still haven’t captured a single major player — the Pablo Escobars.”
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Report Calls on Microsoft to Ban Ads for Rogue Internet Drug Outlets on Bing.com
On August 4, 2009, LegitScript and KnujOn released the first in a series of reports about United States companies that facilitate, and profit from, the illicit sale of prescription drugs. The first report focuses on Microsoft and how rogue Internet drug outlets are being allowed to participate in its online advertising program for bing.com, a search engine recently launched by the company. The authors assert that Microsoft has the ability, and responsibility, to ensure it does not display, much less profit from, Internet ads for Web sites engaged in illegal activities, such as selling prescription drugs without a license or a prescription. The report states that 89.7% of the ads on bing.com for Internet drug outlets that the authors reviewed are acting unlawfully in some way, and some drugs obtained from these sites were found to be counterfeit.
Please Take me of your lists………
Spammers, Scammers and Cybercriminals have turned to Yahoo Groups as a means of furthering deceptive practices and other illegal activities.
Poster PharmAlert of SiteAdvisor seems to be keeping a track of these gangs activities on Yahoo Group…
New Malware Threat
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Name: Worm.Lovgate.F
Type: Worm
Affected Platform: Win32
Media-Type: application/executable
Static File: yes
MD5 Checksum: 5D73ABA7169EBFD2BDFD99437D5D8B11
Filesize: 107,008 Bytes
Wildlist Entry: yes
Alias Names (also known as):
– CA ETrust: Win32/Lovgate.F
– McAfee: W32/Lovgate.f@M
– Sophos: W32/Lovgate-E
Side Effects:
– Drops malicious files
– Uses its own Email engine
– Registry modification
Propagation:
– Email
– Local network
You can find a detailed description of this malware on
http://www.trustedsource.org/malware-virus-description/194
Isuzu Turkey Web Site Compromise
Websense Security Labs(TM) ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that the official Isuzu Web site in Turkey has been injected with a malicious iframe redirector. Isuzu is one of the well-known Japanese commercial vehicle and truck manufacturing companies, particularly in the Asian and European regions.
The ThreatSeeker Network has found thousands of sites compromised by a similar attack strategy. At the time of writing, the iframe redirector’s target URL was unreachable. The redirector itself is still present, however, offering continued infection risk if the malicious Web server comes back up, or if it is replaced by another malicious server. Further investigation indicates that the IP address hosting the target URL hosts other malicious sites, as well.
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