Tag: gameover zeus
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Paper: On the beat
Kevin Williams looks back at UK law enforcement successes at combating cybercrime. In a recent Throwback Thursday article, we looked back at the sentencing of self-confessed virus writer Christopher Pile almost 20 years ago. Pile was the first person in the UK to be given a custodial sentence for writing and distributing computer viruses. He…
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Conference review: Botconf 2014
Second edition of ‘botnet fighting conference’ another great success. I had been looking forward to the second edition of the Botconf conference ever since I came back from the first one last year, and being given a speakers’ slot was the icing on the cake. The conference, which saw 200 security researchers travel to Nancy,…
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Researchers release CryptoLocker decryption tool
Tool uses private keys found in database of victims. Please note : this blog post was written in August 2014 and refers to a particular kind of encryption-ransomware that was active until June 2014. The tools mentioned are unlikely to work to decrypt newer versions of ransomware, including those branded as ‘CrytpoLocker’. The CryptoLocker ransomware…
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Game over for GameOver Zeus botnet?
Coordinated effort against gang that’s also behind CryptoLocker ransomware. A large, coordinated effort involving law enforcement, security vendors and various security researchers, has caused serious disruption to both the GameOver Zeus botnet and the CryptoLocker ransomware. GameOver Zeus is a particularly sophisticated variant of the Zeus trojan. Rather than a centralised command and control infrastructure,…