Not-So "Breaking News"
The spoofed CNN and MSNBC messages from last week have altered a bit, taking on a more generic approach.
The subject of the message is still: BREAKING NEWS.
Michael has been tracking these botnets for a while, his work is available here: http://www.vivtek.com/projects/despammed/stormspam.html.
Like the others, this first stage is a downloader, still readching out to 66.199.240.138 to get the rest of the goodies. Unlike the previous waves, the first executable is named install.exe instead of adobe_flash.exe. So there's a little something different to search for in your proxy logs.
-KL
Volatility 1.3 Released
The folks over at volitilesystems.com have released version 1.3 of their Volatility Framework (https://www.volatilesystems.com/default/volatility) an open source collection of tools that allows an investigator to examine RAM dumps (crash dumps and hibernation files.)
-KL
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