We have been studying the Duqu Trojan for two months now, exploring how it emerged, where it was distributed and how it operates. Despite the large volume of data obtained (most of which has yet to be published), we still lack the answer to the fundame…
Pranksters have fun with ‘newtgingrich.com’
It’s a mystery who’s behind a prank that’s sending Gingrich supporters to Web sites related to controversies in which he’s embroiled.
Web scam-busting trio thwarted by mystery DDoS rocket
Backhanded compliment for fraud alert sites
Updated A bunch of anti-scam sites was knocked offline last week by fierce and apparently well-organised distributed denial of service attacks.…
Worker didn’t realize logging on from Russia was problem
Mystery solved. A reported cyberattack on a water district in central Illinois turned out to be a false alarm set off when an American contractor logged onto the system remotely while vacationing in Russia.
Worker didn’t realize logging on from Russia was problem
Mystery solved. A reported cyberattack on a water district in central Illinois turned out to be a false alarm set off when an American contractor logged onto the system remotely while vacationing in Russia.
Jim Mimlitz of suburban St. Louis says he ho…
The Mystery of Duqu: Part Six (The Command and Control servers)
Over the past few weeks, we have been busy researching the Command and Control infrastructure used by Duqu.It is now a well-known fact that the original Duqu samples were using a C&C server in India, located at an ISP called Webwerks. Since then, anoth…
Gary Speed’s Death A Mystery To His Friends
Friends and colleagues of Wales football manager Gary Speed are asking themselves what could have led him to take his own life when he had “everything to live for”. … Read the full story at Sky News Personal info of 13 million South Korean online gam…
The Mystery of Duqu: Part Five
DriverThe driver is the first component of Duqu to be loaded in the system. As we discovered, the driver and other components of malware are installed with a dropper exploiting a 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-3402). The driver is registered in the HKLM…
The Mystery of Duqu: Part Two
Our investigation and research of Duqu malware continues. In our previous report, we made two points:there are more drivers than it was previously thought; it is possible that there are additional modules.Besides those key points, we concluded that unl…
Amazing 60 year old robot dog is a mystery
The robot dog you see above is a mystery. [Daneil Dennet], a professor of philosophy at Tufts University found this in an antique shop in Paris. Apparently it has no identification and no one has been able to tell him anything about it. It was made in the 50s, and that seems to be all …
