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Date Description Type
09.05.2008Reverse Vishing in ChinaPhishing Alert
09.03.2008MSNBC.com "BREAKING NEWS" Alert Update - Fake Celebrity NewsMalicious Web Site / Malicious Code
08.22.2008Sunkist Web site: Mass InjectionMalicious Web Site / Malicious Code




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New Research by Websense Security Labs reveals the majority of malicious web sites are now legitimate sites compromised by attackers.

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Dissecting Shellcode in Malicious Web Sites

08.29.08 Today’s blog shows how we can debug the shellcode that we find in malicious Web sites. You might ask: what does this shellcode do? And how can I debug it? One way to find out is to write a quick C program that has the shellcode bytes in a buffer. Then, we define a pointer function to point to the code and execute it!