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  • VB2019 paper: APT cases exploiting vulnerabilities in region-specific software

    Software that is endemic to a specific country or region has long been a popular attack vector, in particular among APT groups, who have a history of exploiting vulnerabilities in such software. Past VB conference papers have analysed attacks against InPage , popular in Pakistan, and against Hangul , widely used in South Korea. Japan…

  • Paper: Shifu — the rise of a self-destructive banking trojan

    Thorough analysis of this new kid on the malware block. Times are changing rapidly for banking trojans. Some prominent arrests and at least partially successful takedowns have left space for new criminal entrepreneurs in this malicious, yet highly profitable market. ‘Shifu’ seems to have filled part of this space. First mentioned publicly by IBM in…

  • Tsunami response quick among cybercriminals

    Miscreants releasing scams, phishing, scareware… within a matter of hours. As most of the world reels in shock at the devastation caused by this morning’s massive earthquake in Japan, it comes as little surprise that cybercriminals are already making the most of the news story the rest of the concerned population wants to learn about.…

  • Spam and ID theft attacked from all sides

    EU body issues warning, ICANN, Japan and Yahoo! take on spammers and phishers. Last week a series of major institutions took action highlighting the threat of spam and phishing, with a serious warning released by European Union web security body ENISA and more concrete actions taken by web management body ICANN, the Japanese government and…

  • Japanese super-spammer arrested

    Tokyo man sent 2.2 billion emails. A 25-year-old man was arrested in Tokyo last week, suspected of sending 2.2 billion spam emails. Yukio Shiina was picked up by police on Friday, after his ISP reported him sending huge amounts of email. Suspected to have bought some 600,000 email addresses, he made a 2,000% profit on…

  • First virus-writing arrests in Japan

    Winny worm authors brought to book – for copyright violation. Japan has seen its first ever arrests of virus writers, with three men taken into custody in Kyoto last week and charged with creating worms targeting the Winny file-sharing platform. While no specific virus-writing offence exists under Japanese law, the men were charged with copyright…

  • Japan to tighten spam laws

    Proposals to further restrict email and phone spamming. The Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry is planning a series of improvements to current anti-spam regulations in the country, and hopes to impose tougher restrictions on people and organisations wishing to send out unsolicited advertising messages, according to a report in the Yomiuri Shimbun . Current…