November 11th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Article By Rick Lawhorn CISSP, CISA, CHP, CHSS Internet Terrorism, Cyber Security Attacks, electronic terror, “bad guys”…whichever term you may use still means the same thing…groups of people perform targeted attacks on resources to cause harm or disruption for their own gain. No matter what label we give them, they still want what you have [...]
September 1st, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Anonymous is a rather strange organization in term that it is not really organized. Of course, it is internationally recognized as hack activist group involved in the protests around the world and penetrates into websites and databases of corporations and government agencies. Unity of its members are not yet clear, some members call for operation [...]
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Tags: Anon, Anonymous, Antisec, Cybercrime & Hacking, LulzSec 
No Comments » August 17th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to new research conducted by M86 Security Labs, number of malicious spams has increased in a significant way in August. Last week spams increased by 13 per cent while this week it has reached the 24%. Majority of these spams are coming from Cutwail botnet, Festi and Asprox . Previously Microsoft has shut down [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: Asprox, Bagle, Bobax, Botnet, Cutwail, Cyber spying, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Fivetoon / DMSSpammer, Fuflo, Gheg, Lethic, Maazben, Malware, Rustock, Spam, SpyEye, Waledac, Xarvester No Comments » August 2nd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua 18 year old Jake Davis was arrested on July 27 for suspecting of his involvement in the hacking group Lulzsec. Davis who is supposed to be using Topiary nickname will be free till next August 30. As this date will be the next hearing of his case in court. The teenager appeared in court charged [...]
July 25th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday has sentenced malware editor with two years and six months in prison. Masato Nakatsuiji was found responsible for writing a malicious program, which last summer has spread to the locally popular peer to peer file-sharing network Winny, disguised as a music file, and once run the malware works through [...]
July 19th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft announced to offer 250 000$ reward for any information that helps to arrest cybercriminals behind Rustock the biggest spamming botnet. Previously in June Microsoft published two notices in Russian newspapers to notify the Rustock operators of the civil lawsuit. Now, Microsoft promised to pay a quarter million dollars to those who could help them and [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Malwares Tags: Botnet, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Malware, Rustock, Spam, Trojan No Comments » July 12th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Anonymous published data obtained from a series of hacker attacks on military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), including 90 000 email accounts of the military. The attack is called Military Meltdown Monday. File size published is about 130 MB and contains information about e-mail addresses and “unsalted” MD5 hashes 90 000 troops. It is not [...]
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