Online criminals iced as cops bury malware-spewing Avalanche On November 30, simultaneous raids in five countries by the FBI, Europol, and the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) finally shuttered the Avalanche criminal network that has been spewing malware and money laundering campaigns for the past seven years. The Avalanche network was a system of 600 servers around the world that were …
Time will tell. I certainly hope so. My current count is over 300 messages per day, some that include "buddy" or other such words in their subject (usually with asterisks somewhere, most NSFW). Most I suspect want me to click on some nice link that has lots of javascript to do nasty stuff. Yuck!!
Off with their heads (I wish!!).
The "poor motorist" doing 5 or 6 kph over the speed limit is just as much a real criminal as these people. If you either can't control your vehicle or couldn't give a rat's arse about the lives and safety of others then get off the road. And ideally stop stealing oxygen while you are at it.
I think that common sense needs to be applied when looking at over the speed limit cases. In built up areas the speed limit is the limit, no exceptions. Out on an open road with no other traffic about does a few kph over some arbitrary limit that has been set for roads with heavy traffic really matter?
The "poor motorist" doing 5 or 6 kph over the speed limit is just as much a real criminal as these people.
Interesting, I'll challenge that assumption.
One causes an obvious body count.
The other, simply bankruptcy, destroyed businesses, loss of income to all their employees, probably suicides.
One is unintentional, the other is not.
People struggle to keep their businesses operational at the best of times. The internet has become a very hostile place, where one misconfiguration can give access, and most operators don't have our level of knowledge.
As another poster points out common sense should be applied.
Are these the sort of things intended to be "liberated" under section 41?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/30/efforts_to_stop_rule_41_fail/
If so, it might be the opportunity for a demonstration that this power is to be used for the public good.
In your own time now...
And this is why I would love to see, with proper oversight, some sort of Carrier-grade Network Access Protection system in place.
Malware or attack traffic detected coming from your internet connection? Congratulations, you can now only browse to remediation servers...
I have a client that I picked up after they got hit with ransomware.
Accessible terminal services client, weak password, no backups = FACEPALM
I managed, by luck, to get their important data back, but I also have logs, showing the remote connection ip address. The source address was in the Netherlands (GEOIP) we are in Austalia.
Aus Federal Police, only seem to be interested kiddie porn complaints, or if the perpetrator is in Australia. IS there anyone who could make use of this information?????
Yes you'd like to think that the perp is some mastermind that uses multiple proxies/infected victims, but surely there is something we can do? If only to make people aware they've been hit. Not go "oh its crossed a border, forget about it!"
... computer users should use this window to install anti-virus software and make sure they're protected."
Surely if you haven't got them in place then it's important to install AV measures as soon as possible whether or not there is a convenient window. The point is not so much that now is a convenient time as there is less activity at present but that the gangs will have re-formed and will be back in action very soon.
With some of our email addresses, we get over 200+ spam messages per day, other email addresses get none.
The problem occurs when you create an account at a trader, and their system is already infected with data-harvesting software.
Very frustrating and time wasting.
we have found never to "bounce" spam, it only means more a'coming our way.
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