Oct 23 2009 4:42PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
micro-botnet,
Security,
botnet,
phishing,
social engineering
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I suspect that a sizable percentage of small botnets are those developed by people who understand or are operating inside a business as employees who want to gain remote access to corporate systems, or by criminal entities that have dug deep and gotten insider information on the environment…We’ve seen a growth in the number of sites that offer the sale of corporate documents that were extracted from the bots.
Gunter Ollmann, as quoted in Up To 9 Percent Of Machines In An Enterprise Are Bot-Infected |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is micro-botnet, also known as baby botnet.
Feb 5 2009 4:14PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Security,
Malware,
phishing
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An enterprising group of criminals has been using a real-world scam in an effort to spread malware. The attacks reportedly began with a series of phony parking tickets issued in Grand Rapids, North Dakota. Individuals had the tickets placed under their windshields along with instructions to visit a website.
Shaun Nichols, ‘Parking ticket’ scam brings malware infection |
Of course, the website was a malware drop. Lenny Zeltser (SANS Institute) explains how the scam worked. Later on, McAfee’s Avert Labs Blog identified the Trojan as Vundo.
Remember the good old days when phishing stayed on the Internet where it belonged?