Andrew Martin

A couple of days ago I was investigating an attack that a reader submitted to me that was related to the recent nine ball attacks as reported by WebSense. (Part 1 | Part 2)
The attackers use the same techniques to exploit victims but this time have moved to new domains and updated their payloads. There [...]

While this is not totally new, I only recently came across my first event involving a one click host serving  malware. What is one click hosting? These are providers which you have probably heard of before such as RapidShare, Megaupload, yousendit and many many more. Wikipedia has a listing of many of them. These providers [...]

I first found out about Gumblar a couple days ago via one of Scan Safe’s blog posts. Responsible for 42% of “all malicious infections found on websites” (Sophos) during a 7 day period, Gumblar (JSRedir-R)  has been extremely effective at propagating. Many bloggers have been focusing on the script involved in the attack, not so [...]