FBI cracks International Bot Network !

FBI cracks International Bot Network ! The Department of Justice and FBI declared that it has cracked a network of hackers, who have infected almost 2 million computers with a harmful "bot" program, Coreflood that steals private and monetary data from computers. Identified as a "bot" network- as...

Host is Listed in Known Bot Database

This plugin has been temporarily disabled. The remote host is listed in a public database as part of a botnet. This means it has been infected and is used to attack third party hosts and/or conduct illicit activities. Binary data ipthreatlookup.nbin...

Spam Botnets Are Declining, But Likely Not For Long

The size and volume of spam botnets are down over the last year, and much of this can be attributed to the effectiveness of IP-based blacklists. However, this defense method is no panacea as scammers have found new methods like reputation hijacking to circumvent these roadblocks, and bots continu...

On HTC G2 Code Modification, Botnet Stats and Exploit Hub

Dennis Fisher and Paul Roberts discuss the controversy over the HTC G2 code modification, America’s supremacy in the rankings of bot-infested countries and the viability of the new Exploit Hub as a business. Subscribe to the News Wrap podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of The New Radio Tough Road...

Xlrstats 2.0.1 SQL Injection

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Xlrstats 2.0.1 - SQL Injection

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sql injection vulnerability ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exploit Title: Xlrstats Big Brother Bot Game SQL injection 2.0.1...

U.S. Reigns As Most Bot-Infected Country

The U.S. has by far the highest number of bot-infected computers of any country in the world, with nearly four times as many infected PCs as the country in second place, Brazil, according to a new report by Microsoft. The quarterly report on malicious software and Internet attacks shows that whil...

Mariposa Operators Did Not Use Cookie Stuffing

According to the researcher who helped take down Mariposa, the operators who purchased the bot software from the man known as “Iserdo” and then built Mariposa, for some reason didn’t opt for the feature, which he offered for 200 euros, even though it would have increased their potential profits...

Botnet Targets SSH Servers Via Brute Force

The ddssh bot is currently responsible for an increase in brute force attacks on SSH connections. Botnet herders are apparently injecting the script via a phpMyAdmin vulnerability and using the compromised computers for targeted SSH attacks. Read the full article. The H Security...

Inside the Black Energy 2 Botnet

By Dmitry Tarakanov Cybercriminals use a variety of bots to conduct DDoS attacks on Internet servers. One of the most popular tools is called Black Energy. To date, Kaspersky Lab has identified and implemented detection for over 4,000 modifications of this malicious program. In mid-2008 malware...

Attackers Moving to Social Networks For Command and Control

Bot herders and the crimeware gangs behind banker Trojans have had a lot of success in the last few years with using bulletproof hosting providers as their main base of operations. But more and more, they’re finding that social networks such as Twitter and Facebook are offering even more fertile...

As Many as 3,000 Vodafone Memory Cards Infected by Malware

The malware that was found on a pair of Vodafone memory cards installed in HTC Magic handsets recently has in fact affected an entire batch of 3,000 memory cards, the company said. Vodafone Spain said that the company’s investigation into the incident found that a much larger number of cards was...

Mariposa Bot Found Pre-Loaded on Second Vodafone Handset

It seems that the HTC Magic phone distributed by Vodafone in Spain that security researchers discovered recently was pre-loaded with the Mariposa bot client was not an isolated incident after all, as the concerned party had claimed. An employee of another Spanish security vendor found the same...

Vodafone-Distributed Handset Found Pre-installed With Mariposa Bot

Security researchers have found the Mariposa bot client pre-installed on a mobile phone handset distributed in Europe, and say that the malware looks to have been installed on the phone’s memory card. The phone, the HTC Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is a low-priced...

Honeypots Threatened By Zombies

Innovations in botnet technology threaten the usefulness of honeypots, one of the main ways to study how bot herders control networks of zombie PCs. Computer scientists led by Cliff Zou and colleagues at the University of Central Florida warn that bot herders can now avoid honeypots – unprotected...

rbot 0.9.14 - !react Unauthorized Access

rbot 0.9.14 - !react Unauthorized Access source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39915/info Rbot is prone to an unauthorized-access vulnerability because it fails to adequately sanitize user supplied data. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain administrative rights to the rbot...

Remote file inclusion

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in admin/adminnewsbot.php in Drunken:Golem Gaming Portal 0.5.1 alpha 2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the rootpath parameter, a different vector than CVE-2007-0572...

CAPTCHA Option Should Exist for The Password Reset Form

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-20150. panel The password reset prompt allows an individual to reset any user's password. My company uses a standard employee id to use for t...

CAPTCHA Option Should Exist for The Password Reset Form

The password reset prompt allows an individual to reset any user's password. My company uses a standard employee id to use for the JIRA username. With little knowledge, I designed a script that can cycle through employee id numbers and submit them to the reset password form. This process can repe...

Spam Botnet Gaining Traction

Upping its output of spam by nearly 5 percent in recent weeks, a new botnet called Festi has grabbed the attention of researchers, cracking the list of top 10 most prolific spamming botnets. The botnet has apparently pumped up the volume of spam by recruiting more bots, about 60 percent of which...