Historical OSINT – Profiling a Portfolio of Active 419-Themed Scams

It’s 2010 and I’ve recently decided to provide actionable intelligence on a variety of 419-themed scams in particular the actual malicious actors behind the campaigns with the idea to empower law enforcement and the community with the necessary data to… Continue reading Historical OSINT – Profiling a Portfolio of Active 419-Themed Scams

Historical OSINT – Rogue Scareware Dropping Campaign Spotted in the Wild Courtesy of the Koobface Gang

It’s 2010 and I’ve recently came across to a diverse portfolio of fake security software also known as scareware courtesy of the Koobface gang in what appears to be a direct connection between the gang’s activities and the Russian Business Network.

In… Continue reading Historical OSINT – Rogue Scareware Dropping Campaign Spotted in the Wild Courtesy of the Koobface Gang

Historical OSINT – Massive Blackhat SEO Campaign Spotted in the Wild – Part Two

It’s 2008 and I’ve recently came across to a massive black hat SEO campaign successfully enticing users into falling victim into fraudulent and malicious scareware-serving campaign. In this post I’ll provide actionable intelligence on the infrastructur… Continue reading Historical OSINT – Massive Blackhat SEO Campaign Spotted in the Wild – Part Two

Historical OSINT – Massive Blackhat SEO Campaign Spotted in the Wild

It’s 2008 and I recently came across to a pretty decent portfolio of rogue and fraudulent malicious scareware-serving domains successfully acquiring traffic through a variety of black hat SEO techniques in this particular case the airplane crash of the… Continue reading Historical OSINT – Massive Blackhat SEO Campaign Spotted in the Wild

Historical OSINT – Malware Domains Impersonating Google

It”s 2008 and I’ve recently stumbled upon a currently active typosquatted portfolio of malware-serving domains successfully impersonating Google further spreading malicious software to hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting users.

In this post I’ll pr… Continue reading Historical OSINT – Malware Domains Impersonating Google

Historical OSINT – Massive Scareware Dropping Campaign Spotted in the Wild

It’s 2008 and I’ve recently spotted a currently circulating malicious and fraudulent scareware-serving malicious domain portfolio which I’ll expose in this post with the idea to share actionable threat intelligence with the security community further e… Continue reading Historical OSINT – Massive Scareware Dropping Campaign Spotted in the Wild

HIstorical OSINT – Latvian ISPs, Scareware, and the Koobface Gang Connection

It’s 2010 and we’ve recently stumbled upon yet another malicious and fraudulent campaign courtesy of the Koobface gang actively serving fake security software also known as scareware to a variety of users with the majority of malicious software conveni… Continue reading HIstorical OSINT – Latvian ISPs, Scareware, and the Koobface Gang Connection

Historical OSINT – Massive Blackhat SEO Campaign Courtesy of the Koobface Gang Spotted in the Wild

It’s 2010 and I’ve recently stumbled upon yet another massive blackhat SEO campaign courtesy of the Koobface gang successfully exposing hundreds of thousands of users to a multi-tude of malicious software.

In this post I’ll provide actionable intellig… Continue reading Historical OSINT – Massive Blackhat SEO Campaign Courtesy of the Koobface Gang Spotted in the Wild

HIstorical OSINT – PhishTube Twitter Broadcast Impersonated Scareware Serving Twitter Accounts Circulating

It’s 2010 and I’ve recently intercepted a currently circulating malicious and fraudulent malware-serving spam campaign successfully enticing hundreds of thousands of users globally into interacting with the rogue and malicious software found on the com… Continue reading HIstorical OSINT – PhishTube Twitter Broadcast Impersonated Scareware Serving Twitter Accounts Circulating