Protect Against Keylogging Trojans with KeyScrambler

There has been a lot of news lately surrounding key logging trojans including Zbot, Clampi and others. These trojans are designed to steal authentication credentials and other sensitive information, especially for banking and social networking sites leaving users scrambling for ways to protect themselves. The highlights of these news articles has been how easily these trojans can evade detection even by the most current anti-virus...

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Zbot Trojan: World's Most Dangerous Malware

The Zbot Trojan, aka Zeus or WSNPoem, is the world's largest and most dangerous malware. A recent whitepaper by Trusteer, who specializes in securing online transactions, proven the Zbot trojan has an incredibly low detection rate amongst anti-virus scanners. Trusteer reports that 3.6 million PCs are infected in the US alone, and even up...

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Newly Listed IRS Scam and Zbot Domains

A new list of IRS Scam and Zbot domains was recently posted on malwareurl.com. These are interesting as the domain names are altered only slightly and end in .eu. There are a total of 28 domains and 20 unique IP addresses. yoky1w.eu 79.117.171.75 mi11f1.eu 187.64.34.106 mi11fa.eu 187.64.34.106 mi11fd.eu 79.184.58.166 mi11fe.eu 187.64.34.106 mi11ff.eu 85.106.95.114 mi11fi.eu 194.54.48.50 mi11fp.eu 79.184.58.166 mi11fq.eu 79.186.68.243 mi11fr.eu...

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Introductory Post

As internet threats continue to evolve it's becoming clear that web threats and blended threats are becoming the most predominant danger to network security. Green Cloud Security and this blog are dedicated to the proliferation of information about web security issues - increasing awareness for both network administrators and regular internet users. The creation of this blog comes on the heels of the Websense Security Labs "State...

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Resources

Below is a list of resources that can be used to analyze web based threats, viruses and malware. I will update this list continually. Web Analysis Services Virus Total - http://www.virustotal.com/ Wepawet  - http://wepawet.iseclab.org/ Virus.org - http://scanner.virus.org/ JSUnpack - http://jsunpack.jeek.org/dec/api Web Sniffer - http://web-sniffer.net/ Applications and Plugins Malzilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/malzilla/...

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