Here we go… the other lucky recipients of Microsoft’s attentions in the “John Doe” (which I earlier called “Jane Doe”) lawsuits are: XPdefender.comCase No. 08-2-33382-5 SEAJudge Suzanne Barnett WinSpywareProtectCase No. 08-2-33380-9 SEAJudge Joan DeBuque WinDefenderCase No. 08-2-33377-9 SEAJudge Michael J. Fox MalwareCoreCase No. 08-2-33375-2 SEAJudge Douglas McBroom Antivirus 2009Case No. 08-2-33372-8 SEAJudge Bruce Heller Microsoft […]
Edited to update documentary links.. Washington Attorney General, Rob McKenna (whose work has been featured on this blog several times) and Richard Boscovich, Senior Attorney for Microsoft’s Internet Safety Enforcement Team, unveiled several lawsuits against malware (what they call “scareware”) pushers today. The lawsuits are the first to be filed under the State’s recently amended […]
Let’s take a look-see at where Intercage/Atrivo’s most infamous client, esthosts/estdomains, are situated – using Domaintools, cidr-report.org and bfk-de, and a smattering of Sam Spade 1.14. I’m not using Robtex that much because I get the sense that, sometimes, its data is behind the times and it should be noted that by the time this […]
Surprise surprise. Screenshot taken just a few minutes ago… http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27595&v=4&view=2.0
Don’t we love the online press? I’ve been watching the fall-out and online reports of Atrivo’s short lived disappearance off the net, and I think this is one of the more … misinformed … articles that I have seen so far: US-Based Malware Network Shuts Down Source: Dark Reading The article says (my comments in […]
I’ve wanted to do this for ages … never did get around to it … ;o) Steve has put together a chart listing the default settings for each Internet Explorer security level (IE7 on Vista SP1) – you can find it here:http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2008/09/16/internet-explorer-security-levels-compared.aspx
And they’re not happy… The question is, where will Atrivo/Intercage’s infamous clientele go? The hostexploit.com study that was at the centre of this maelstrom can still be found at the URL below (a PDF, just under 2 megabytes in size): http://hostexploit.com/downloads/Atrivo%20white%20paper%20090308ad.pdf
Adobe have blogged about changes being made to Flash to address various security issues, including the Flash clipboard attacks that received so much press attention not that long ago. Blog article here:http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/09/clipboard_attack_update.html Devnet article:http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes.html The changes: In Flash Player 9, ActionScript could perform uploads and downloads at any time. With Flash Player 10 beta, […]
Newly registered via Directi … cid38.mobi cid38.mobi is hosting a copy of a legitimate web site – note the URL in the address bar: And here is the real site – again, note the site in the address bar:
I’m sure my readers already know about the goings-on affecting Estdomains/Intercage and Atrivo in recent times – suffice to say that the bad guys are being chased from pillar to post and back again, and were at risk of being knocked off the Internet completely. Brian Krebs can claim credit for starting this most recent […]