January 29th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Anonymous Attacks Irish Government Websites While we have been following #opmegaupload this week Anonymous group launched a parallel DDoS attack targeting Ireland facilities, here Brian Honan released a blog post about the attack and some very important proactive measures to ensure the security of your systems. http://bhconsulting.ie/securitywatch/?p=1161 CyberSecurity warns against phishers on Twitter Next up [...]
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Tags: #OpIrland, Blackhat search engine optimization (SEO), Botnet software, Compromised legitimate websites, Drive-by downloads, Fake antivirus, Key loggers, keylogger, Malvertising, Phishing, Phishing Attack, Social engineered click-jacking, Spear phishing sites 
No Comments » February 8th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Criminals are conducting spam attacks on email addresses related to .gov and .mil domain name. According to Brian Krebs Blog post the fake messages includes a link leads to a Trojan Zeus which helps to steal Banking system passwords. The reason of success of such attacks that the phishing message looks quit legitimate, Recipients are [...]
October 31st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cybercriminals are not leaving any chance or event without trying to gain more illegal incomes or distribute their Malware. Here there are some cases of Internet scam and other mail tricks are detected by viruslist regarding the Halloween. Cheap software: Emails not from legitimate sources for advertising costumes and personalized gifts: E-cards for the Halloween: [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, Internet, News Tags: Cybercrime & Hacking, Phishing, Spam 7 Comments » October 3rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Nowadays some fake companies forced Google and other search engines to list millions of compromised website in their web search results. These links lead to infected websites that can damage computer system and theft of sensitive information. This kind of attack aims to redirect the victims to download fake copies of popular programs. For example [...]
