Tag: cert.pl

  • Necurs update reminds us that the botnet cannot be ignored

    If, at some point in the past few years, you have looked at a spam campaign in which a lot of emails were being sent from Vietnam or India, there’s a good chance the spam was sent by the Necurs botnet. Necurs has been active for at least six years – Virus Bulletin published a…

  • Necurs update reminds us that the botnet cannot be ignored

    If, at some point in the past few years, you have looked at a spam campaign in which a lot of emails were being sent from Vietnam or India, there’s a good chance the spam was sent by the Necurs botnet. Necurs has been active for at least six years – Virus Bulletin published a…

  • VB2017 paper: Peering into spam botnets

    Spam continues to be an important infection vector for many malware campaigns, but while a lot of attention is paid to the payloads delivered by these campaigns – Andrew Brandt’s VB2017 talk on Trickbot being just one of many examples – few researchers study the botnets used to send the emails. Bucking that trend are CERT…

  • VB2017 paper: Peering into spam botnets

    Spam continues to be an important infection vector for many malware campaigns, but while a lot of attention is paid to the payloads delivered by these campaigns – Andrew Brandt’s VB2017 talk on Trickbot being just one of many examples – few researchers study the botnets used to send the emails. Bucking that trend are CERT…

  • VB2016 video: Nymaim: the Untold Story

    Every year, the Virus Bulletin conference programme includes a number of ‘last-minute’ papers: presentations on topics that are so hot, they are added to the programme only a few weeks before the start of the conference. While the short time frame means there isn’t enough time to add an accompanying written paper to the conference…

  • VB2016 video: Nymaim: the Untold Story

    Every year, the Virus Bulletin conference programme includes a number of ‘last-minute’ papers: presentations on topics that are so hot, they are added to the programme only a few weeks before the start of the conference. While the short time frame means there isn’t enough time to add an accompanying written paper to the conference…