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Finjan, Cybercrime Intelligence report, tells the story of Golden Cash botnet that sells access to botnets comprised of thousands of compromised PCs to cyber criminals. Cyber criminals can pay $5 to $100 to install malware on 1,000 PCs for things like stealing data and sending spam. Prices are higher for compromised PCs in western countries.
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Green Dam Youth Escort is the censor ware developed and distributed by Chinese government to filter ‘harmful’ content. Here are some details about the working of the software.
‘Green Dam-Youth Escort’ will filter

All text editors on the market (EditPlus, UltraEdit, EmEditor),
Office software suites (WPS, MS Office),
E-mail clients,
Instant messaging clients
Browsers
Green Dam-Youth Escort will ‘force’ you to [...]

TinyURL, Bit.ly, Cli.ng… there are numerous URL shortening services out there, which gives us cute shiny short URL which we can post to tweets, blogs and websites. But this shiny short URL often takes us to malicious websites. The URL masking makes the users difficult to know if they’re clicking on a trustworthy link, or [...]

Starting this July 1, computers sold in China must include government- developed and provided spyware that blocks pornography and political dissent from Chinese netizens. This software would allow the government to regularly update computers with an ever-changing list of banned Web sites. Industry veterans say they are worried the software may simply be a Trojan [...]

If it’s on the web; its unsecure. Strong web mail CEO learned this lesson the hard way after hackers broke into his email account. StrongWebmail challenged hackers to break into the company’s Web mail system and promised to pay out a US$10,000 prize.  Hackers used XSS (cross-site scripting) attack techniques to break the account and [...]

The Malware that captures account numbers and PINs from the ATM transaction logs and then delivers it to the thief on a receipt printed from the machine in an encrypted format or to a storage device inserted in the card reader has been found from windows XP based automatic teller machines in Russia and Ukraine.
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