Presented by Richard A. Kemmerer.
Botnets, which are networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security threats on the Internet. A particularly sophisticated and
Trustwave researchers have stumbled upon a new malware kit that they have dubbed Redkit, as a result of it’s red skinned theme. Redkit uses two access vectors: 1.) The Adobe Acrobat and Reader LibTIFF vulnerability (CVE-2010-0188). 2.) The Java AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability (CVE-2012-0507), lately used by the criminals behind the massive Flashback infection. “As each malicious URL...
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Lately the twittersphere has been abuzz with news of a group of hackers who owned a quite prolific botnet, not in the sense of numbers, but in the sense of just brazen, link clicking and getting paid, botnet used to harvest money from the Google AdSense platform. As we all know, certain blogs or...
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