Updated January 31: Added graph and discussion of remaining active paths Following a week of growing protests and periodic telecommunication disruption, Egypt suddenly lost all Internet connectivity at approximately 5:20pm EST Thursday. The below graph shows traffic to and from Egypt based on ATLAS data from 80 providers around the world. Between 3 and 5pm [...]
On the Conficker Working Group’s website, the Lessons Learned document has finally been made public. Sponsored by the US DHS, with key efforts at getting it written from Rick Wesson and David Dagon, the document was prepared by in large part by interviewing key folks in the CWG. The purpose was to explore all of [...]
This week, we continue our efforts to document the crowded space of Chinese DDoS bots by analyzing Darkshell. This particular malware family has recently been used to attack quite a few companies involved in the industrial food processing industry. Malcode Properties The Darkshell malware is distributed in the form of a small executable which typically [...]