On 30th of July, 2013 NASK terminate its agreement with a registrar, Domain Silver, Inc. We described the reason for that decision in a detailed technical report. Today we publish an updated version of the report with our sinkhole statistics. These statistics were made from 20 different botnets sinkholed by …

Today we publish an overview of domains registered through Domain Silver, Inc, a registrar operating in the .pl domain. This Registrar started operating in May 2012. Since that time, the CERT Polska team started to observe a large increase in the amount of malicious domains registered in .pl and to …

Recently we blogged about a new threat to Polish e-banking users called “E-Security”. When a user, whose machine was infected, tried to access her internet banking site she was greeted with a message that instructed her to install “E-Security Certificate” application on her Android phone. This “certificate” was nothing more …

Recently, we obtained a new Android malware sample, which is targeting Polish e-banking users. The application is called “E-Security” and its filename is e-security.apk . It also has a security-related icon shown on the left. The malware is relatively simple, but effective at achieving its goals …

At the end of February 2013 Polish Research and Academic Computer Network and CERT Polska took over 3 domains used by one of the Citadel botnets, known as “plitfi”. All the network traffic from these domains was directed to a sinkhole server controlled by CERT Polska. Today we publish a …

At the end of January and the beginning of February 2013 NASK (Research and Academic Computer Network) — the .pl ccTLD Registry — and its security team CERT Polska took over 43 .pl domains used to control the Virut botnet and to spread malicious applications. As a result of this action, all …

NASK has taken over multiple domains used for cybercrime activities, making their further usage for illegal purposes impossible. The domain names were used to spread and control dangerous malware known as “Virut” . NASK’s actions are aimed at protecting Internet users from threats that involved the botnet built with Virut-infected …

CERT Polska received an Android malware sample. Both the application name ( poland_xxx.apk ) and its location (it was downloaded while visiting a popular Polish website, probably as a part of advertisement) may mean that Polish Internet users are targeted. Application sends three Permium-rate SMS, all of …

Recently, we encountered a very good article about another instance of the Kelihos botnet. According to results of research conducted by the author, most of the machines involved in the fast-flux network scheme are located in Poland. That’s why we decided to take a closer look at available samples …

Our first semiannual report, covering period from January to June 2011 is focused on information from automated systems. We have received almost 4 million automated incident reports and we grouped them in major categories such as spam sources, phishing, malware, bots or DDoS attacks. We discuss our findings in the …