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Tag Archives: infections
Hijacked subdomains still serving malware
Last month the Unmask Parasites blog wrote about attacks using hijacked sudomains of legitimate websites to serve badware. At the time of that articles publication the attacks had been going on for a month already. We are still seeing a … Continue reading
Tagged godaddy, infections, subdomains, trends
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A Detailed Look at ThePlanet’s Infection Distribution
A reader asked a question in the comments of the previous blog post about ThePlanet regarding the distribution of infections. The reader wanted to know if the rest of the infections not attributed to Skenzo and HostGator were evenly distributed … Continue reading
Tagged epidemic, infections, theplanet, webidemiology
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Update on ThePlanet and Hostgator
Last month we started an investigation into the massive numbers of infections we saw on ThePlanet’s AS21844 network. Last week we discovered the Rwhois server at ThePlanet and were able to get a more fine grained view of the infection … Continue reading
Tagged as21844, epidemic, hostgator, infections, theplanet
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Update on Sustained Infections at ThePlanet (Skenzo and Host Gator)
I’ve been working on my investigation of ThePlanet and have some new and interesting results. Skenzo has some valid concerns. They monetize abandoned domain names and apparently inherited a bunch of abandoned badware URLs. When Google rescans a site on … Continue reading
Tagged hostgator, infections, skenzo, theplanet
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Update: Sustained Infections at ThePlanet
Last week I wrote about infections which seem to plauge web host ThePlanet. A lot of information has come in since then that explains a bit of what is going on. First I have not received any official communications from … Continue reading
Tagged epidemic, infections, skenzo, theplanet, update, websitewelcome
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Infections continue to plague ThePlanet
Earlier this month I started investigating the infections which continue to plague ThePlanet. As you can see in the chart I linked to they have sustained over 10,000 infections for several months now. In my research I found that many … Continue reading
Tagged epidemic, infections, theplanet
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Prevalence in web infections
I’ve been very interested in applying epidemiology to the world of malware lately. Prevalence is quite simply the number of infected in a given population at a specific time. More specifically it is a ratio of infected over the number … Continue reading
Tagged chinanet, epidemiology, infections, theplanet
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