Introduction For a long time malware has targeted web data such as site logins. A malicious application could intercept socket functions within a web browser and scan for HTTP headers in order to retrieve HTTP data, however as HTTPS (HTTP […]
Selfish Mining Selfish Mining in short is theoretical concept in which a malicious pool of miners could gain a better income by deliberately forking the blockchain. If a mining pool were to not immediately broadcast blocks, but instead add them […]
Process Injection Process injection is an age old technique used by malware for 3 main reasons: Running without a process, placing user-mode hooks for a rootkit or formgrabber, and bypassing antivirus / firewalls by injecting whitelisted processes. The most common […]
Previous Incident In April 2013 large trading volume caused the MtGox trading engine to begin lagging. As soon as the trading engine lag started to build, traders panic sold due to the increasing risk of loss from trading blind. Of […]
Takedowns For the past year or so the Kelihos botnet has been in the news after constant attempts to take it down. recently the ZeroAccess botnet has also been subject to similar publicity, but what do these efforts actually achieve? […]