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Oregon – A keystroke-capturing Trojan was blamed for the possible compromise of the personal information of 2200 tax payers.

Nebraska – The states child support payment system was hijacked by a hacker who gained access to personal information of 300,000 individuals and employers who pay and receive child support.

Virginia – The Baltimore Sun reported that Chinese hackers recently hijacked a classified computer system of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and made off with confidential information.

Finland – Police in Finland and the U.K. teamed up to arrest three men in connection with worm attacks. Authorities arrested a 63-year-old, 28-year-old and a 19-year-old.  The trio are suspected of being members of the MOOP virus-writing gang.
Israel – Pro-Palestinian messages defaced many of the nation’s websites following the abduction of an Israeli soldier and the Jewish state’s invasion of Southern Gaza.  The hacker was believed to be based out of Morocco.

Top Ten hoax threats

Hotmail Hoax
Olympic torch
Justice for Jamie
Bonsai Kitten
Meninas da Playboy
Budweiser frogs screensaver
Bill Gates fortune
MSN is closing down
A virtual card for you
Mobile phone hoax

Malware: Infection starts to slip. Trojans and exploits made up 22% of all infections last month, while viruses and worms only accounted for one-in-10 infected computers.

Zombies: Image based spam on the rise. Total zombies for June 2006 7,796,846 up 2.9% from May.

Grayware: Infections stay steady. Nearly a third of all grayware infections (28%) were adware.  Trackware made up 10%, while browser helpers accounted for 13%. Browser hijackers recorded a paltry of 1% of grayware.

Zero-Day attacks

63% Backdoor.Naninf.e
27% Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Vidio.ae
4% Trojan-Spy.Win32.Bzub.aa
6% Others

The zero-day attacks were dominated by two viruses that made up 90% of all new malware in June.

Top 10 Spyware

DesktopSpam
Zlob.Media-Codec
Looking-For-Home Search Assistant
Virtumonde
SpywareQuake
180Solutions. Search Assistant
Command Service
DollarRevenue
Zango.Search.Assistant

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Stop Cyber Terrorism

Q&A: Making a federal case — how the FBI collars Cyber-Criminals
Robert Mitchell

July 28, 2006 (Computerworld) Identity theft, hacking for profit, espionage, iPod slurping — the FBI is increasingly focused on helping organizations fight these and other cybercrimes. Computerworld’s Robert L. Mitchell asked several agents what they’re seeing in the field and what advice they can offer IT.

Andrew G. Arena is special agent in charge of the FBI’s criminal division in New York, Matt Heron is assistant special agent in charge of the transnational criminal enterprise branch in New York, and Timothy O’Brien is a special agent with the computer crimes squad in the New York office. Nenette Day, a special agent in Boston, was responsible for a sting operation that recovered the source code stolen from a major computer-aided design software vendor
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You all met recently with corporate CIOs. Why are you seeking them out?
Arena: We’re trying to build a relationship with the private sector where they will trust us, where they will be comfortable coming to us if there is an intrusion.

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