Microsoft, Financial Groups Execute Takedown of Zeus Botnet Servers

Microsoft has gone after another botnet, this time targeting some of the command-and-control infrastructure behind the Zeus network with a takedown effort that included seizing two IP addresses used for C&C servers and filing suit against 39 unnamed defendants. The action against Zeus is the late...

Variant of Zeusbot/Spyeye Botnet uses p2p network model

Variant of Zeusbot/Spyeye Botnet uses p2p network model Cybercriminals are using a modified version of the Zeusbot/Spyeye, which is using a peer-to-peer P2P network architecture, rather than a simple bot to command-and-control C&C server system, making the botnet much harder to take down, Symante...

Researchers Discover Android Mobile Botnet 100k Strong

A newly discovered malicious application circulating on third party Android markets in China has created a botnet that contains more than 100,000 compromised devices, researchers report. Researchers from North Carolina State University and Symantec say the malware, dubbed RootStrap NC State...

Ongoing Targeted Attack Campaign Going After Defense, Aerospace Industries

Researchers have identified a strain of malware that’s being used in a string of targeted attacks against defense contractors, government agencies and other organizations by leveraging exploits against zero-day vulnerabilities. The attacks may have been going on since 2009 in some form and the...

Attackers Moving Zeus Servers to Former Soviet Union TLD

The groups of attackers that employ the Zeus toolkit for their scams and malware campaigns have long used sites in the .ru Russian TLD as homes for their botnet controllers. Security researchers and law enforcement agencies have had a difficult time making headway in getting these domains taken...

Koobface Gang Shuts Down C&C Server, Drops Offline

The crew behind the Koobface worm, who have been quite open about their exploits and financial gains from their work in the past, now seem to be ducking underground as pressure is building on them in the wake of exposures of their operation and real identities. The command-and-control server used...

Koobface Gang Apparently Hiding in Plain Sight

The individuals allegedly responsible for wreaking havoc on Facebook with the infamous Koobface botnet are living lavishly, blatantly flaunting their ill-gotten gains and taking little precautions to cover their tracks. Their locations, travels, business ventures, social media personas, Internet...

More Details of Sykipot Exploits Of Adobe Reader Flaw Surface

More evidence is beginning to emerge that the Adobe Reader zero-day bug revealed recently is being used in targeted attacks against companies and federal agencies. Researchers recently have come across fresh samples of malware exploiting the vulnerability by using files crafted to draw in employe...

Duqu Attackers Wiped Out C&C Infrastructure After Public Disclosures

Researchers have known for years that virus writers and attackers pay close attention to the analyses researchers do of their work, and it appears that the Duqu authors are no exception. Shortly after the first public reports about Duqu emerged in early autumn, the crew behind Duqu wiped out all ...

Windows Kernel Zero Day Vulnerability Found in Duqu Installer

Windows Kernel Zero Day Vulnerability Found in Duqu Installer Duqu malware attack exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel, according to security researchers tracking the Stuxnet-like cyber-surveillance Trojan. The vulnerability has since been reported to Microsoft and Microsoft i...

The Mystery of Duqu

First of all, we feel it necessary to clarify some of the confusion surrounding the files and their names related to this incident. To get a full understanding of the situation you only need to know that we’re talking about just two malicious programs here at a minimum – the main module and a...

Attackers Adjusting Tactics to Evade Reputation Systems

BARCELONA–As in life, reputations on the Internet take time to build up. Attackers interested in making a quick buck aren’t necessarily the most patient lot, so as the various repuation systems on the Web have gotten more sophisticated and accurate, the bad guys have had to adjust their tactics a...

Mac trojan poses as PDF to open botnet backdoor

Mac trojan poses as PDF to open botnet backdoor There's another Mac OS X Trojan out in the wild, and it might be heading your way.If you open the file, which could appear as an emailed attachment or as a Web link, the document, written in traditional Chinese ideograms, does indeed display. But a...

Ice IX: Not Cool At All

My colleague Jorge Mieres recently found a C&C server of a botnet based on a malicious program called Ice IX. As announced on several user forums, Ice IX is a bot created using the source code of ZeuS 2.0.8.9, which became publicly available in May. The author of the new bot says the program...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: pl-5.7.11-7.fc14

ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler including modules, autoload, libraries, Garbage-collector, stack-expandor, C/C++-interface, GNU-readline interface, very fast compiler. Including packages clib Unix process control and sockets, cpp C++ interface, sgml reading XML/SGML, sgml/RDF reading RDF into...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: pl-5.10.2-5.fc15

ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler including modules, auto-load, libraries, Garbage-collector, stack-expandor, C/C++-interface, GNU-readline interface, very fast compiler. Including packages clib Unix process control and sockets, cpp C++ interface, sgml reading XML/SGML, sgml/RDF reading RDF int...

Shady Rat Attackers Hid Code in Digital Images

More information about last week’s “Shady Rat” hacks continues to be uncovered, including reports that the attackers behind the hack used digital images to obscure their activities. Researchers at Symantec analyzing the attacks found images were hiding code that enabled communication back and for...

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 ...

RHEL 6 : eclipse (RHSA-2011:0568)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0568 advisory. The Eclipse software development environment provides a set of tools for C/C++ and Java development. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: eclipse security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated eclipse packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which...