Zeus Banking Trojan Comes to Android Phones

The Zeus banking Trojan has jumped the bridge to the large and growing ecosystem of mobile devices powered by Google’s Android operating system, according to security researchers at Fortinet. Researchers say they have obtained a Zeus variant, dubbed “Zitmo,” that can run on Android phones and tha...

Citigroup Breach Now Reportedly Affecting More Than 360k

More than 360,000 North American credit cards were exposed in May when an attack on Citigroup infiltrated that company’s card account management website according to a report by IDG News. The breach exposed the names, account numbers, and contact information of account holders, but not other...

Citigroup Admits Info on 200K Customers Stolen in Network Compromise

Citigroup is warning its credit card users that attackers have stolen account information belonging to 200,000 customers. The breach apparently was discovered last month. The attackers who compromised Citigroup’s network were able to get customer names, account numbers and other data, including...

Attackers Using Amazon Cloud to Host Malware

Attackers are beginning to host their malicious domains and drive-by download sites, and most recently researchers have discovered a number of domains on Amazon’s cloud platform that are being used to install malware as part of a spam and phishing campaign designed to steal banking credentials an...

ZeroAccess Rootkit Latest in Line of x64 Malware to Appear

Never ones to be left behind as progress marches on, attackers are beginning to develop more and more tools aimed specifically at exploiting 64-bit machines. The latest entry into the field is an x64 version of the ZeroAccess rootkit, a nasty piece of malware that’s been circulating for some time...

New 64-Bit Rootkit Being Used to Steal Banking Credentials

Security researchers have come across a new rootkit that is designed specifically to infect 64-bit Windows systems and steal users’ online banking credentials. It’s believed to be the first piece of malware of its kind that is capable of compromising x64 systems. The new rootkit is being used by...

Role of Hacking in Stealing and Selling Credit Cards !

Role of Hacking in Stealing and Selling Credit Cards ! People use the Internet in their everyday lives. With technology advancing as fast as it is, most modern day homes have gone online, turning to the Internet to save time with busy days, performing simple tasks like online banking, purchasing...

Qakbot Virus Causes Possible Data Breach at Mass. Agencies

An untold number of computers at the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and Department of Career Services were compromised in April, leading state officials to warn hundreds of thousands of people that their personal information may have been stolen as part of the attack. However...

Finnish Police Arrest 17 in Online Banking Scam

Finnish law enforcement officials arrested seventeen individuals in connection with an attack against Nordea Finland’s online banking services that took place in early 2010, according to a report from Softpedia. The group allegedly used a variant of the Gozi Trojan, also known as Papras, to pilfe...

White House Cyber-Security Strategy Could Guard Health Care Payments !

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace aims to help consumers pay for services such as health care more securely and avoid identity theft. Recent guidelines issued by the White House on cyber-security could provide an impetus for secure online bill paying in health care,...

Complete ZeuS source code has been leaked !

Complete ZeuS source code has been leaked On the 23rd of March 2011 we posted a blog about the source code for the infamous crime kit ZeuS Wsnpoem/Zbot being sold on at least two dark market forums see: https://www.csis.dk/en/csis/blog/3176/. This weekend we found the complete source code for thi...

Zeus Source Code Leaked

The source code to the infamous Zeus crimeware kit, which has been sold on underground forums for years, has been leaked and is now available for anyone to see if they know where to look. Security researchers over the weekend noticed that files that appeared to contain the source code for the Zeu...

Netherlands-based Rabobank down under DDoS attack !

Netherlands-based Rabobank down under DDoS attack ! The internet and mobile banking services of Netherlands-based Rabobank were crippled by a distributed denial of service attack yesterday. The attack sent the banking services offline but did not affect Australian operations, according to the ban...

The Underground Economy: SMS Fraud

The underground malware economy has expanded and diversified in recent years and the latest frontier is the mobile platform. In this video, Kaspersky Lab’s Denis Maslennikov talks about the ways that attackers use premium-rate SMS messages and banking fraud to bilk users...

The Banker Trojan Epidemic

Banking Trojans have become a major security problem in many regions, particularly South America and Europe. In this video, Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Vicente Diaz discusses the epidemic and what can be done to mitigate it...

Mobile Application Security – The New Frontier

The power and popularity of consumer mobile computing is changing faster then you can say iFart the 1 downloaded app worldwide. Commercial entities are rapidly adopting mobile-based applications for retail sales floors, restaurants and dining rooms, distributed mobile banking, and more...

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download !

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download ! HES aims at anticipating the challenges of the security world and gathers together underground or amateur security researchers together with professional security expert researchers and technical decision makers. During three days, HES will...

Banking Fraud Now Almost Exclusively Occurring Online

A new study of small to mid-sized businesses shows that 75% of banking fraud is now taking place online according to a report from InformationWeek. The 2011 Business Banking Trust Study, commissioned by Guardian Analytics and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, found that 56% of the companies in...

Cyber Attacks Hit Nearly 40 South Korean websites !

According to a new report, 40 South Korean websites came under a cyber crime attack by a computer virus, including the presidential Blue House, South Korea's biggest bank , a major online auction house, the Foreign Ministry, the two largest search engines in the country and Korean military websit...

New banking trojan capable of hijacking the SSL connections !

Security researchers from Symantec warn of a new banking trojan capable of hijacking the SSL connections between browsers and online banking sites in a way that is hard to spot. Variants of this malware, which Symantec detects as Trojan.Tatanarg, have been in circulation since last October, but i...