Archive for December, 2009

Your DNS is an Asset (Twitter DNS Woes…)

December 19, 2009 by Danny McPherson

Given all the hoopla surrounding yesterday’s Twitter outage, and the apparent source of the outage being the result of nothing more than some maliciously modified DNS resource records enabled by a simple password compromise of Twitter’s DNS administrator account with their DNS services provider, Dyn Inc., I’d like to again take this opportunity to share [...]


Posted in Arbor Networks, Attacks, Critical Infrastructure, Interesting Research, Social Engineering, Twitter, Vulnerabilities
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Lethic Spambot Analysis: Pills, Watches, and Diplomas

December 4, 2009 by Jose Nazario

There’s another spambot afoot, and of its activities is to spam pharmacy and pill spam. We found it via the malcode in our zoo and the C&C traffic that we hadn’t characterized previously. AV coverage of the samples is modest. The botnet appears to be spamming the usual unwanted junk, and appears to be a [...]


Posted in Arbor Networks, Botnets, Malware, Spam, Trojan Horses
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