Tag: blacklisting

  • BlackHole Toolkit: Malware Running Wild

    Malicious hackers are infecting websites in droves using new kinds of malware. Websites are the newest malware battleground. Benign websites are being compromised and infected by hackers in order to infect their visitors. In the vast majority of cases, the affected website owners are completely oblivious to the fact that a malicious hacker has used [...]

  • Analyzing the Google Blacklist, Part 2

    Building on our first article in the series, we continue to analyze the Google Safe Browsing List. In this part, we present more detailed statistics about the hashes seen on the blacklist and try to provide insight into what we observe. Motivation Understanding the behavior of infected websites is very important. This provides security researchers [...]

  • Is User Trust More Effective Than Blacklisting?

    Blacklists are published by many security groups and organizations around the world to share knowledge about malicious websites, IP addresses and other security features which allow others to insulate themselves from the dark side of the Internet. In recent years, the number of blacklist being published by web-centric organizations have grown by leaps and bounds. [...]

  • Do Zombie IPs Host Blacklisted Websites?

    Zombie IPs can be defined as Internet Addresses which participate in bot net communications. When Internet surfers visit websites contaminated with malware, the malicious code often times is successful in infecting the computer of the unsuspecting visitor. Once the malware has installed itself on the personal computer of the Internet surfer, it proceeds to receive [...]

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    Try our Blacklist Monitoring service for free. Blacklisting can happen to anyone. Now, with Blacklist Monitoring, know before it’s too late to keep your customers. Getting quick notice can let you fix the problem faster. Together, we can help make the web a safer, better place to surf. What’s in it for you? We tell [...]