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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 2nd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Following the last message sent by Anonymous to Government of Tunisia and the attack by LulzSec team that joined Anonymous targeting Tunisian govt website http://www.marchespublics.gov.tn. I had a short conversation with Haythem El MIR (@elmirhaythem), CTO of National agency for Computer Security of Tunisia. How do you find the attack by Antisec on different government [...]
