New Tool to Help Police Investigators
Team Cymru's Botnet Analysis and Tactical Tool for Law Enforcement (BATTLE) has been providing police from 31 different countries with information on botnet command and control servers within their jurisdictions for over a year. Team Cymru is proud to announce today that it has been massively expanded to include phishing sites and malware download locations, making it the largest free repository of data for law enforcement of its kind.
To see the tool in action, visit the BATTLE services page and the Team Cymru YouTube Channel. Police officers can e-mail outreach@cymru.com for details of the application process to get a BATTLE account. You may also view the press release for more details.
Team Cymru Launches RSS Screensaver
Team Cymru has released a free RSS screensaver designed to give everyone key information regarding cyber crime activity. It runs on Mac OS X and displays two separate news feeds of important IT Security stories as well as a rotating globe showing a map of currently infected computers. This map is automatically updated from our global insight every day.
For a short video showing the screensaver in action as well as detailed instructions for installation and setup, please see Team Cymru's YouTube channel. For more information and download and installation instructions, please see the RSS Feed Screensaver page and the press release.
Team Cymru Renews Partnership with Microsoft for Malware Intelligence
Team Cymru is pleased to announce the renewal of our agreement with Microsoft to deliver malware and phishing intelligence that will continue to enhance Internet Explorer's ability to protect its customers from online threats.
Team Cymru's contribution to Microsoft's Internet Explorer automates the way users are protected by regularly updating a highly vetted list of locations confirmed to be distributing malware and phishing of various types.
"We have worked hard to become recognized in the area of top quality, near real time malware analysis and intelligence," said Jeff Vosburg, Chief Operating Officer at Team Cymru. "We are pleased that Microsoft understands the threat and has chosen to renew their sponsorship in order to protect their customers' online experience."
Further details can be found in the full press release.
Team Cymru Launches 'Million Resolvers Project'
Team Cymru has launched the 'Million Resolvers Project" to reduce the number of DNS Servers that can be used in DNS Amplification attacks.
Simply email us at info@cymru.com if you'd like us to send you a list of your publicly accessible DNS servers that are capable of participating in one of these attacks. This information, coupled with the reference links below will hopefully help alert you to any potential open resolvers in your network, and provide some tips on how to fix them.
See the latest "Who and Why Show" which explains the problem
at
http://www.youtube.com/teamcymru
Read the new white paper on this topic at:
http://www.team-cymru.org/ReadingRoom/Whitepapers/
Read more details of the project at:
http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Resolvers/
View older news items in our news archives.
Internet Malicious Activity Maps
The above map shows network locations of malicious activity on the Internet within the past 30 days, plotted using a Hilbert curve. Check out our Internet Malicious Activity Maps page for full details and a larger view of this and other maps.
