DDoS Attack Forces Hong Kong Exchange Site Offline for Second Day

Trading on Hong Kong’s stock market, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, remains suspended today following a “coordinated and sustained” distributed denial of service attack on one of the exchange’s websites Wednesday. Several companies, including HSBC, China Power International and Cathay Pacific...

Harnig Botnet Returns, But Without Rustock

The takedown of the Rustock botnet earlier this year has had ripple effects throughout the malware and spam ecosystems, with some large reductions in spam levels and attacks. However, some of the components of the malware machine driven by Rustock are beginning to come back online now. Researcher...

Conficker Worm in Hiding at an Australian Supermarket Chain

The once-prolific Conficker worm has turned up in the most unlikely of places: Australian discount supermarket, Aldi. The worm was discovered pre-installed on a four-in-one external hard-drive, DVD, USB, and card reader combination device. According to a warning from the Australian Computer...

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for providing information of Rustock botnet. The Rustock botnet is responsible for a great deal of cyber crime, spam the botnet has capacity for 30 billion spam mails every day, dodgy...

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for providing information of Rustock botnet. The Rustock botnet is responsible for a great deal of cyber crime, spam the botnet has capacity for 30 billion spam mails every day, dodgy...

Microsoft Offers $250k Reward for Rustock Information

Microsoft is now offering a $250,000 reward to help track down the people behind the notorious Rustock botnet. The company, which helped take down the botnet several months ago, said that it already has some good information on the crew behind the network and is now looking for information to bri...

Outdated Assumptions

The term “targeted attack” gets thrown around an awful lot nowadays. In fact I’m guessing you’ll be hard pressed to find many public breach disclosures that make it to the news that aren’t labeled as having been “targeted”. It reminds me of an important quote from the character Inigo Montoya in T...

Microsoft Says Rustock Botnet Cut in Half

In March, Microsoft announced that its Digital Crimes Unit had scored a major victory in the war against hackers with the takedown of the Rustock botnet. Since then, the company has continued to monitor the activity of the network and the machines infected with the Rustock-related malware and fou...

Rootkit: TDLv4

TDL-4 is the fourth generation of the TDL botnet, originated in 2008. The TDL-4 botnet could be used to send out spam, steal individuals data or used for malicious attacks. TDL-4 features an improved algorithm that encrypts communications between infected computers and the botnet's C&C.; TDL-4 al...

Researchers Discover the World's Most Complicated Piece of Malware

Researchers from Kaspersky Labs claim to have discovered the most sophisticated piece of malware available on the Web. Detected by their antivirus product as TDSS, the Trojan employs a number of methods to avoid detection, including the use of encryption between the botnet command and control...

TDSS rootkit infects 1.5 million US computers

TDSS rootkit infects 1.5 million US computers Millions of PCs around the world infected by the dangerous TDSS 'super-malware' rootkit as part of a campaign to build a giant new botnet. The report is presented by researchers from security firm Kaspersky Lab. TDSS also known as 'TDL' and sometimes ...

TDSS rootkit infects 1.5 million US computers

TDSS rootkit infects 1.5 million US computers Millions of PCs around the world infected by the dangerous TDSS 'super-malware' rootkit as part of a campaign to build a giant new botnet. The report is presented by researchers from security firm Kaspersky Lab. TDSS also known as 'TDL' and sometimes ...

Head of Russian Payment Processor ChronoPay Arrested

Pavel Vrublevsky, the head of a prominent Russian payment-processing company, ChronoPay, was arrested in Russia on suspicion of hiring someone to launch a denial-of-service attack against one of his company’s main competitors. The arrest is the latest in a series of high-profile actions against...

Malware, Exploit Kit Writers Merging Their Talents

MALAGA, SPAIN–Botnets have been around for more than 15 years now, and for much of that time they’ve been the favored platform for attackers looking to compromise users on a large scale and monetize those infected machines. But now, as researchers and authorities begin to have more success with...

FBI Begins Purging Coreflood Infected PCs

The FBI has issued some 19,000 uninstall commands to the computers of 24 individuals infected by the Coreflood botnet, effectively purging their machines of that malware, and leaving behind no unintended consequences thus far according to a report from Brian Krebs. This move was made possible by...

Time to Focus on Results-Oriented Security

The security industry is full of pernicious problems with no easy solutions. Take spam, for example. The current best defense is filtering out the obvious spam messages. Yet, the countermeasure is not a solution: As anti-spam technology gets better, spammers merely churn out more spam and achieve...

Rustock Author May Be Former Google Hopeful

As Microsoft’s crusade against the Rustock botnet continues, a new article from Brian Krebs claims the formerly prolific botnet’s author may be a self-described mathematician and software engineer who once sought employment from Google. According to Krebs, who cites court documents filed by the...

Phishing, Social Networking Attacks on the Rise

The last year or so has seen a series of high-profile targeted attacks against corporate and government networks, including the Aurora attack on Google and others, the intrusion at RSA and the recent attack on the Sony PlayStation Network. But a new report from Microsoft shows that attackers...

Fingerprinting the author of the ZeuS Botnet !

The source code of the ZeuS Botnet is now available for Download. Derek Jones the author this article imagine there are a few organizations who would like to talk to the authors of this code. All developers have coding habits, that is they usually have a particular way of writing each coding...

Finally Source code of ZeuS Botnet Version: 2.0.8.9 available for Download !

Finally Source code of ZeuS Botnet Version: 2.0.8.9 available for Download ! Download Link : https://www.multiupload.com/P8QUNF4YJN Rar password : zeus Read More : Complete ZeuS source code has been leaked ! 'The Hacker News' Magazine - Social Engineering Edition - Issue 02 - May,2011 Released !...