Around the time of the convictions late this week of the folks behind The Pirate Bay (also see The Pirate Bay Trial: The Official Verdict – Guilty on TorrentFreak), a well known BitTorrent tracker distribution site, we started seeing reports of DDoS attacks on other torrent tracker sites. Never one to miss an opportunity to [...]
Via our spam traps, we see a malicious URL being spammed out that was highlighted as suspicious by the MITRE honeyclient and then further analyzed by Wepawet. three exploits leadig to an EXE, a PDF, and a SWF file. This one is interesting because it’s one of a handful that are pushing the boundaries of [...]
But it is busy. Last week’s April 1 trigger date for the new routines in Conficker.C/D (depending on the vendor) was mis-reported by some press agencies as the date many in the CWG said the Internet would melt down. Not quite. The press has been busy with the story as a hype leading to fizzle [...]