Botnet gangs collaborate on malware
News Two criminal groups are collaborating to promote malware, according to botnet researcher Jose Nazario. The anonymous group behind the Avalanche botnet is pushing Zeus, malicious code from another unnamed group, Nazario told ZDNet UK on Wednesday.
[December 11, 2009, 11:01]
Cybercrooks get better at concealing code
News Increasingly the actual code, often JavaScript, used to attack PCs is hidden in Flash animations or scrambled, so that anyone who examines the source of a page can't easily identify it, said Jose Nazario, a senior software engineer at Arbor...
[April 19, 2007, 10:53]
'Electronic jihad' played down
News There has been a lot of occasions of people saying, 'hey, let's have a party and deface a lot of Web sites,' and not much has come from it," said Jose Nazario, worm and denial-of-service attack researcher for security company Arbor Networks.
[August 26, 2004, 8:10]
Explaining the Estonian cyberattacks
News When it comes to denial-of-service attacks, Jose Nazario has seen just about everything. As senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, Nazario closely monitors network attacks. Arbor Networks has a tool called the Active Threat Level Analysis...
[May 30, 2007, 15:34]
Marijuana worm smoked out of action
News They are adaptive; they are evolving," said Jose Nazario, a researcher for computer-security group. Worms, as they stand currently, are highly visible and easily blocked because of the high traffic they generate," Nazario said.
[July 12, 2001, 15:43]
Storm botnet goes quiet
News We don't know what happened here, if somebody put the kibosh on them or not," said Jose Nazario, a security researcher for Arbor Networks. The creators of the Storm botnet have either ceased sending out spam or have moved on to a newer botnet...
[October 16, 2008, 9:17]
Worms evolving into complex beasts
News They are adaptive; they are evolving," Jose Nazario, a researcher for computer-security group Crimelabs, said of worms, malicious, self-replicating programs that have become a favourite tool of online vandals.
[July 12, 2001, 12:53]
Georgian president suffers cyberattack
News Arbor Networks's chief analyst, Jose Nazario, pointed to political tension in another region of Georgia, Abkhazia, as well as tensions in South Ossetia, as being possible catalysts to the attack. This attack appears to have a political motivation...
[July 21, 2008, 17:12]
Worm exploits Solaris hole
News The worm attempts to log into systems running Solaris 10, execute a number of commands to plant itself and then spread to other vulnerable computers, Jose Nazario, a senior software engineer at Arbor Networks, wrote on his company's blog on Tuesday.
[March 1, 2007, 8:06]
'Fast-flux' domains help botnets evade capture
News The study's authors, Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks and Thorsten Holz of the University of Mannheim, tracked the traffic of 900 fast-flux domain names used by botnets within the first six months of 2008.
[October 9, 2008, 10:03]
Spam levels drop after plug pulled on hosting site
News Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks, a company that monitors botnet activity, speculated that McColo vanished at around 9am Eastern time on 10 November. Internet hosting site McColo disappeared on Tuesday, and with it went thousands of pieces of spam...
[November 13, 2008, 8:08]
Microsoft offers $250k bounty for Downadup arrest
News It also spreads via removable storage devices such as USB drives, and network shares by guessing passwords and usernames, which is "causing it to spread like wild fire in the enterprise", Jose Nazario, manager of security research for Arbor...
[February 13, 2009, 12:06]
Hackers to focus on iPhone next year
News We expect 2008 to be the year of the iPhone attack, the Chinese hacker, P2P network spammers and the hijacking of the Storm botnet," Jose Nazario, senior security engineer at Arbor Networks, said in the statement.
[December 13, 2007, 7:45]
