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DarkBot Malware Circulation very fast via Skype
Two weeks back we reported that Security firm Trend Micro discovered a worm targeting Skype users with spam messages designed to infect machines with the Dorkbot ransomware has been discovered. This malware is spreading through a question/ phrase sent to the users by someone and the question is:...
Microsoft Settles With Kelihos Botnet Defendant, Says He Didn't Run the Network
Microsoft on Friday said it has reached a settlement with a Russian programmer it named as a defendant in a lawsuit related to the operation of the notorious Kelihos botnet. The company said that it no longer believes Andrey N. Sabelnikov was the operator of the botnet, but was instead responsibl...
Citadel Trojan Updates with Dynamic Config Mechanism that Streamlines Fraud Activity
The elusive authors of the Citadel Trojan have released a new version of their banking botnet malware and service. The latest version, the sixth since it debuted in January and dubbed Rain, includes a dynamic configuration mechanism that allows botmasters to inject malicious content to compromise...
Nitol Botnet Shares Code with Other China-Based DDoS Malware
Microsoft has learned that much of the code used by the Nitol malware family is copied from free malware resources hosted on Chinese websites. Microsoft posted portions of the code online this week where similar lines used for denial of service attack functionality are present in Nitol and on the...
Virus conducting DDoS attack from infected systems
Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the malicious program which is helping attackers carry out mass spam mailings and allow attacker to use victim's PC as slave of his DDOS Army. According to researchers from the company they have discovered a Trojan "Trojan.Proxy.23012"...
vOlk Botnet Framework 4.0 XSS / SQL Injection
Title: ====== vOlk Botnet Framework v4.0 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities Date: ===== 2012-10-09 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=721 VL-ID: ===== 721 Common Vulnerability Scoring System: ==================================== 8.3 Introduction: =============...
vOlk Botnet Framework 4.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities
vOlk Botnet Framework 4.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Title: ====== vOlk Botnet Framework v4.0 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities Date: ===== 2012-10-09 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=721 VL-ID: ===== 721 Common Vulnerability Scoring System:...
vOlk Botnet Framework 4.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities
Title: ====== vOlk Botnet Framework v4.0 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities Date: ===== 2012-10-09 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=721 VL-ID: ===== 721 Common Vulnerability Scoring System: ==================================== 8.3 Introduction: =============...
Russian Web proxy with backdoors, Distributing malware
Antivirus company Symantec has detected a malicious campaign in which hackers managed to deceive thousands of people allegedly signed by a paid proxy service. They expose that hundreds of thousands of users signing up for a cheap and supposedly legitimate proxy service have ended up downloading...
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...
Microsoft Report Exposes Malware Families Attacking Supply Chain
Less than a month after the Nitol botnet takedown, Microsoft has released data casting more scrutiny of supply chain security. In its latest Security Intelligence Report SIR for the first half of 2012, Microsoft has connected the most prevalent malware families involved in supply chain compromise...
Dorkbot Now Worming Its Way through Skype
The Dorkbot worm that fooled many a Facebook and Twitter user is now socially engineering Skype users into downloading the malware, whose payload now includes a mechanism to lock down machines. Various antivirus and security companies are reporting the latest iteration rummages through an infecte...
Proxy Service a Front for Malware Distribution
Hundreds of thousands of users who signed up for an inexpensive proxy service called Proxybox.name got quite a steal alright. They ended up installing a Trojan horse linked to a botnet first detected last summer. Researchers at Symantec reverse engineered the Backdoor.Proxybox malware and unearth...
vOlk Botnet Framework v4.0 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities
Document Title: =============== vOlk Botnet Framework v4.0 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=721 Release Date: ============= 2012-10-08 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 7...
Hackers disrupt Interpol website against Anti-Islam film
A hacker group "Kosova Hacker's Security" based in the Middle East take down Interpol website yesterday. According to claim of Hackers, they are doing this cyber attack on a law enforcement agency to show their protest against the controversial Anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims. According to...
300% Increase in malnets Attack in the past six months
Blue Coat systems has undertaken detailed research into the use of 'malnets' by criminals to help support their various attacks in order to uncover the best ways to take down these systems. Botnet infections are commonly spread though compromised websites seeded with malicious scripts and promote...
Microsoft Reaches Settlement with Site Linked to Nitol Botnet
Microsoft announced today it’s reached a settlement with the operator of a Chinese Web site whose domain and sub-domains hosted more than 500 kinds of malware, including the Nitol botnet found on brand new computers. In a lawsuit filed two weeks ago by the software giant, Microsoft alleged the...
'Historic' DDoS Attacks Against Major U.S. Banks Continue
PNC Bank appears, as promised, to be the latest victim of hacktivists carrying out denial-of-service attacks against major U.S. financial services institutions. PNC, out of Pittsburgh, joins Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America on a list of banks taken offline reportedly by a...
9 million PCs infected with ZeroAccess botnet
In recent months, we've seen the rootkit family Win32/Sirefef and Win64/Sirefef also known as ZeroAccess Botnet update its command and control protocol and grow to infect more computers while connecting to over one million computers globally. Before, disclosed that it creates its own hidden...
