WALEDAC Loves (to Spam) You!

Holidays and popular annual events as a social engineering tool in spamming is a signature Storm technique. The following spammed email message should then cement WALEDAC’s association with the said bot giant.

Figure 1. Spammed Valentine’s greetings. These messages flood inboxes weeks before Valentine’s day, also typical of previous Storm spam runs. Clicking on [...]

Will EDoS be the next DDoS?

A noted security analyst has proposed a new twist on the traditional denial of service model where attackers purposefully inflate the bills of cloud service users until they can no longer afford service.

Christofer Hoff, the Chief Security Architect at Unisys, has recently been discussing the concept of an Economic Denial of Sustainability on [...]