November 7th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua The subject of network neutrality on the web is a hotly debated issue with the potential to drastically alter the future of the internet. Net neutrality laws as currently written address three key issues: transparency; no blocking; and no unreasonable discrimination . Opponents argue for tiered services that distribute the cost of services according to [...]
November 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Promoting web resources on internet can help in driving traffic to your website, One of the well-known black hat way is using bot-network for sending spams or advertisement, Bot is a special program that will work to automate certain tasks so a hacker will be sending just one instruction for the C&C server that will [...]
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 [...]
September 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New spamming campaign has been observed by TrendMicro that is spreading on twitter, the malicious shortened URLs contain a JPEG file from a Facebook domain. Files with extension .JPEG are usually image and pictures extension but here link lead to a worm detected by Trend Micro as WORM_KOLAB.SMQX . The interesting point that cybercriminal added [...]
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 [...]
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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 » 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 » February 20th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Rustock is today the largest and most productive spam botnet in the world this has been found at the RSA Conference 2011 in San Francisco. The Rustock botnet (founded around 2006) consists of an estimated 250,000 computers the size of Rustock is related to the constantly evolving technologies. Joe Stewart, Director of Malware Research at [...]
