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

Historical OSINT – A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software

In this post I’ll profile a currently circulating circa 2008 malicious and fraudulent scareware-serving campaign successfully enticing users into interacting with rogue and fraudulent fake security software with the cybercriminals behind the campaign s… Continue reading Historical OSINT – A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software