November 2nd, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to thelocal news Swedish police website was subject for a DDoS attack last week. The result of this attack was a complete disrupt of the official website. On the High traffic the server can treat about 800 requests per second but during the attack they detected about 400 thousand requests per second which is [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Web Security 
Tags: Botnet, Conficker, cyber attacks, Cybercrime, DDOS, zombies 
12 Comments » April 9th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Conficker worm is finally doing something–updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers, Trend Micro said on Wednesday. Researchers were analyzing the code of the software that is being dropped onto infected computers but suspect that it is a keystroke logger or some other program designed to steal [...]
Posted in News, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Botnet, Conficker, Downadup, peer-to-peer, Security, Trend Micro, Worm 1 Comment » March 31st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers at The Honeynet Project has discovered a vulnerability in the Conficker that makes it easy to detect,The Conficker adds changes in Windows that can be detected remotely by using a various scanning methods which is already integrated into different popular scanning tools. Members of the Honeynet Project founded that conficker infected host’s respond with [...]
Posted in News Tags: Botnet, Conficker, Honeynet Project, Malware, Network, network scanner, nmap, patch, scan, Security, Worm No Comments » March 26th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers at SRI International updated their Conficker paper. They have provided a very useful analysis of the Conficker malware. The last variant of Conficker, referred to as Conficker C leaves as little as 15% of the original B code base untouched the main purpose of the Conficker is to provide the authors with a secure [...]
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