After the RBN (Russian Business Network) episode in late 2007, after the Atrivo/Intercage episode recently, here comes the McColo episode. We are very happy to see that this bulletproof hosting company has been shut down since a few days. We […]

Following the recent post by Ivan on the legacy of the Nuclear Grabber trojan horses developed by “Corpse”, I recently came across a command & control server (c&c) that “pays tribute” to this famous malware author. This coder used for […]

For those of us “mourning” the anticipated departure of Nuclear Grabber’s trojan in late 2006, we turned out to be a little too eager to bury the “corpse”. www.corpsespyware.net / www.prodexteam.com: Corpse’s official sites back in 2005-07: Nuclear Grabber (earlier, […]

Virtual worlds, either contemplative (metaverses > Second Life) or dedicated to games (MMORPG > World of Warcraft) are unique places of human interaction because of their structure or their popularity. Therefore, they represent a fertile ground for behavioural studies, as […]

We started to receive spam that looked like: JENNIFER LOPEZ EXTREMLY NAKED!!! http://****/bst/rel.php which in turn downloads a video.avi.exe. So far nothing special! While loaded manually (after a double-click on it, in my Windows system), it installed a “Spyware”! oh, […]