Dancho Danchev

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Dancho Danchev is an independent security consultant and cyber threats analyst, with extensive experience in open source intelligence gathering, and cybercrime incident response. He's been an active security blogger since 2007, and maintain…s a popular security blog sharing real-time threats intelligence data with the rest of the community on a daily basis.ggMore details on Dancho Danchev's current and past professional affiliations, can be found in his LinkedIn profile. You can also follow him on Twitter

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Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress

Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress

In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting the government to switch to hosting locations to the U.

August 11, 2008 by in Security

Campaign Monitor hacked, accounts used for spamming

Campaign Monitor hacked, accounts used for spamming

E-mail marketing software developer Campaign Monitor warned users today of a server compromise that took place during the weekend.The compromise allowed the attackers to gain access to customer accounts, which they abused by importing their own lists of harvested emails in order to launch spam campaigns using the clean IP reputation of their servers.

August 11, 2009 by in Servers

DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild

DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild

UPDATE: Arbor Networks have provided more details in their "30 Days of DNS Attack Activity" analysis, SANS confirmed HD Moore's statement on DNS cache poisoned AT&T DNS servers. Numerous independent sources are starting to see evidence of DNS cache poisoning attempts on their local networks, in what appears to be an attempt to take advantage of the "recent" DNS cache poisoning vulnerability :" client 143.

July 28, 2008 by in Security

Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levels

Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levels

It took only a couple of months for cybercriminals to catch-up and reintroduce the massive spam volumes that briefly disappeared following the shutdown of the cybercrime ecosystem's sitting duck McColo in November, 2008.According to Google's Postini Spam data and trends for Q1 2009, during the first quarter of the year the spam volume was the strongest since 2008, increasing with an average of 1.

April 2, 2009 by in Google