February 5th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Blackout: Harbinger of the Future? What I have noticed that before any breach happens no one care about security but if the strike arrive people will start to invest, think and speak about proactive measures. “IT security research analyst Richard Stiennon, author of Surviving Cyber War and the forthcoming Cyber Defense: Countering Targeted Attacks, says [...]
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No Comments » January 23rd, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On some hacking forums user of ZeuS expressed disappointment as they are not finding improvement in the malware program. The problem that they need to update source code to find new bugs allows having more income. According to Brian Krebs article malware writer will not just sell you the product but they provide customers with [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: Crimeware, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Zeus, Zeus bot No Comments » December 12th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua An international study has revealed a staggering 6% of household computers are harbouring malicious botnets. This equates to over one million households in the UK alone being in regular connection to the criminal networks. The botnets attack websites, send spam, and pass on personal information (such as bank details) to criminals. The Dutch researchers who [...]
Posted in cybersecurity, Guest blog Tags: Botnet, Cyber-Security, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking 1 Comment » September 19th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Spammers and malware distributors have started to take advantage of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar. After that the Dutch government alerted about attackers managed to hack into web security firm where hundreds of bogus security certificates that could be used on websites including Google, Microsoft and Twitter. Barracuda warned of a spamming campaign targeting Royal Bank [...]
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 9th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Blue Coat Security Labs experts warn of a large network malware known as Shnakule, the malware are using a combination of false advertising banners and fake security alerts to infect computers. According to the research malware spread itself through embedding a malicious code in banner ads that redirect victims to other websites that attempt to [...]
Posted in Malwares Tags: Cybercrime, Malicious Code, Malicious Web Site, Malvertising, Malware, Shnakule No Comments » 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 [...]
