Tor Botnet Makes Bad Move to Anonymity Network

MEvade, the massive botnet using Tor as a communication protocol, may have moved operations to the network in order to hamper potential takedown efforts, but according to security researchers, the move just served to shine a spotlight on the botnet’s activities. Rather than hide traffic from bots...

Joomla Patches Blackhole Zero Day Vulnerability

Attackers have been abusing websites for months that are hosted on Joomla, WordPress and other content management platforms. One gaping vulnerability can open the door for a cybercrime group, for example, to build a formidable botnet, or lure victims to malware that can cash out a bank account or...

New Attack Leverages Mobile Ad Network to Deliver Android Malware

Ad networks have been a key component of the malware and cybercrime ecosystem for a long time and their role is becoming more and more complicated, as researchers from WhiteHat Security showed at Black Hat recently. That problem is now moving to the mobile Web, and researchers at Palo Alto Networ...

6 on a neglected Microsoft vulnerability MS13-0 5 1--Note the large cattle of the analysis process-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

Foreign media once again bashing Microsoft patch rating, only as advice, not as a Bible. Last week Microsoft released 6 month patch, wherein MS13 - 0 5 1 rating is important, on the grounds that the vulnerability requires user interaction, and is currently found to be utilized in the attack is on...

New Autorun Malware Spiking

Autorun malware used to be kind of a big deal around here. Worms that jump directly from removable media such as USB drives as soon as they are connected to a PC can cause some major trouble, spreading quickly through a network. Microsoft made a change to newer versions of Windows that disables t...

Hack Battle at 'The Hacker Conference 2013' with CTF365

The Hacker Conference partnered up with CTF365 to provide the best CTF experience during the conference. While trying to find out more about their product and also about their CTF surprise, I got an interview with Marius Corici Co-founder and CEO for CTF365. Q: November 2012 was when you first...

Hack Battle at 'The Hacker Conference 2013' with CTF365

The Hacker Conference partnered up with CTF365 to provide the best CTF experience during the conference. While trying to find out more about their product and also about their CTF surprise, I got an interview with Marius Corici Co-founder and CEO for CTF365. Q: November 2012 was when you first...

Winnti Cyberespionage Campaign Targets Gaming Companies

A cybercrime gang has been running roughshod over the gaming industry for years using malware signed with valid digital certificates to steal source code and valuable in-game currency for a number of popular online games. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab this morning published a report on the Winnti...

Deluge of Election-Related Spam, Threats Begins

It was only a matter of time before the inevitable wave of malicious, election-tinged spam began to rain down upon internet users. In the wake of last week’s presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, it appears the floodgates have opened. According to ...

Zitmo Growing More Sophisticated, Prevalent in Android

From July to September this year, there’s been an uptick in Zitmo or Zeus-in-the-Mobile mobile banking malware according to research revealed this week by network security firm FortiGuard Labs. Researchers argue that iterations of the malware variant that have come to Blackberry and Android phone...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tzdata on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

The tzdata package contains data files with rules for various time zones around the world. This updated package addresses the following changes to Daylight Saving Time DST observations and to time zones : - Bangladesh changed their clock back to Standard Time on December 31, 2009. BZ550570,...

php MBB cms v0.0.3 Multiple Vulnerability

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IXESHE Malware Avoids Easy Detection to Remain a Persistent Threat

Trend Micro today issued a report on an advanced persistent threat that uses stealthy data-stealing malware called IXESHE “i-sushi” to infect machines. So far it’s hit East Asian governments, Taiwanese electronics manufacturers and German telecommunications firms operating across Asia. Though the...

Google Launches New Privacy Policy to Worldwide Criticism

Search giant Google rolled out a sweeping new privacy policy on Thursday, despite continuing opposition from countries in Europe and Asia to the changes. The company announced a sweeping revision to dozens of overlapping privacy plans in January and set March 1st as the date on which the new,...

US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers

US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America's top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members. The hackers may have broken into the...

Mandriva Update for timezone MDVA-2011:058 (timezone)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Mandriva Update for timezone MDVA-2011:058 (timezone)

Check for the Version of timezone OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for timezone MDVA-2011:058 timezone Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

NATO Looks to Team With India To Fight Cybercrime

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO is looking to enlist the help of India when it comes to contending with cyber threats from China, according to a recent report. According to a piece in the Economic Times, NATO hopes to strengthen its ties with the Southeast Asia republic, citing its...

Russian hacker steals $10 million from a former Royal Bank of Scotland !

A 27-year old Russian hacker pleaded accusable to burglary $10 actor from a above Royal Bank of Scotland analysis aback in 2008, and he's apprehension a adjudication and sentencing at the end of this or at the alpha of the abutting week. The balloon is captivated in Novosibirsk in Siberia, and th...

Oracle Sun Java System Web Server - HTTP Response Splitting

Description Security-Assessment.com discovered that is possible to successfully perform an HTTP Response Splitting attack against applications served by Sun Java System Web Server. The vulnerability can be exploited if user supplied input is used to generate the value of an HTTP header, as shown ...