Google Adds Phishing, Malware Info to Transparency Report

Google divulged new statistics today about its Safe Browsing program, a service it uses to flag websites it suspects of peddling malware and phishing. According to the numbers, most of the “unsafe website” warnings it pushes to users on Google Search and in browsers, stem from malware and not...

Gumblar Crew Starts Monetizing Compromised Servers

It looks like the group behind the Gumblar mass Web-site infections is beginning to get serious about making some money from all of the servers that the attacks have compromised in the last 18 months. The group has begun using some of its compromised servers in spam operations that are pushing th...

Hack Puts Spotlight on Malware's Long Tail: Parked Domains

They’re the dusty corners of the Web: so-called “parked” domains. But these little trafficked sites are attracting the attention of security experts, who say that it’s time for hosting firms and others that profit from them to clean up malware infections that may be exposing millions of Web users...

Gumblar Botnet Shifts Tactics

The criminals behind the Gumblar botnet and malware campaign have been adapting their techniques, as attackers are wont to do, in order not only to evade detection but to prevent researchers from downloading and analyzing new versions of the malware. A new analysis of the recent activity by Gumbl...

Gumblar Continues to Spread, Thousands of Sites Infected

Months after it first appeared on the scene, the Gumblar malware continues to infect thousands of servers across the Internet and is closing in on nearly 80,000 servers pointing to the hosts that are serving the malware. In just the last month, the number of servers redirecting users to the Gumbl...

On Social Networking Attacks, Gumblar and Cyberterror

Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine discuss the increasing volume and sophistication of attacks on social networks, the continued rise of malware campaigns such as Gumblar and the recent news around cyberwar and cyberterror. Download SHOW NOTES: Gumblar Attacks Spread to Thousands of New Sites Report:...

Gumblar Attacks Spread to Thousands of New Sites

Gumblar, the nasty bit of malware that was part of a mass SQL injection on legitimate Web sites this spring, is continuing to spread and its creators have been busy lately, compromising hundreds of new sites, leading to a massive new wave of infections of end-user PCs. Gumblar first hit the scene...

Gumblar: Back and Better than Ever

One of the great things about the Internet is that things can live on indefinitely. Unfortunately, that long life expectancy applies to malware, as well. The Gumblar botnet, which has been active for several months now but had quieted down somewhat, is making a comeback in a big way. IBM ISS’s...

Experts: Gumblar attack is alive, worse than Conficker

From CNet Elinor Mills The Web site compromise attack known as Gumblar has added new domain names that are downloading malware onto unsuspecting computers, stealing FTP credentials to compromise more sites, and tampering with Web traffic, a security firm said on Thursday. The Gumblar attack start...

Gumblar: The malware that is sweeping the nation

The latest large-scale malware outbreak to hit the Web, known variously as Gumblar and Geno and Martuz, is a multi-stage attack that not only infects compromised machines with a number of separate pieces of malware but also has the ability to steal credentials and block the victim from taking...