Archive for January, 2009

Troubled Ukrainian Host Sidelined

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

A Ukrainian Web hosting provider that, according to published reports, has long served as home base to a prolific and invasive family of malicious software has been taken offline following abuse reports from Security Fix to the company’s Internet provider. Since at least 2005, and perhaps earlier, an entity known as UkrTeleGroup Ltd. has hosted hundreds of Web servers that control a vast network of computers infected with some variant of “DNSChanger,” according to security software vendor McAfee, which monitors worldwide malware. DNSChanger is a Trojan horse program that changes the host system’s settings so that all of the Internet traffic flowing to and from the infected computer is sent through servers controlled by the attackers. In a report issued last month, McAfee said it found more than 400 DNS servers on UkrTeleGroup’s network that appeared to be set up to to re-direct Web traffic for systems infected with DNSChanger.

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US school in toothless Obama worm infection

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Round up the dweebiest suspects
Security experts reckon a new low-threat worm that displays the image of President Obama on infected desktops is the work of technically-knowledgeable pranksters.…

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Techwatch weathers DDoS extortion attack

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Botnet blackmail
Techwatch is back online following a sustained denial of service attack that left the digital TV news site unavailable for two days earlier this week.…

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