Locky Ransomware Variant Changes C2, Spread Via Nuclear Exploit Kit

Security experts warn companies need to brace for new harder-to-detect and more determined variants of the Locky ransomware spotted recently in the wild. The news comes just as reported Locky ransomware attacks have waned in recent weeks. Locky is now trying to evade detection by changing the way...

Analyzing Linux Malware Sandbox: Limon

Limon is a sandbox developed as a research project written in python, which automatically collects, analyzes, and reports on the run time indicators of Linux malware. It allows one to inspect the Linux malware before execution, during execution, and after execution post-mortem analysis by...

Attackers Embracing Steganography to Hide Communication

Encouraged by patterns carried out on a larger scale recently, researchers believe digital steganography has arrived as a legitimate method for attackers to use when it comes to obscuring communication between command and control servers. In a presentation last week at Black Hat Europe researcher...

Obama Administration Seeks More Legal Power to Disrupt Botnets

The federal government is seeking more legal power to step in and shut down botnets through an amendment to the existing criminal law, which would allow the Department of Justice to obtain injunctions to disrupt these malicious networks. The Obama administration has proposed an amendment to...

Android Malware Installs Pirated Assassin's Creed App

A pirated version of the Assassin’s Creed application for Android is bundled with malware according to the security-as-as-service from Zscaler. Assassin’s Creed is a popular, open-world series of adventure games available in various iterations on the XBOX, PlayStation, PC and other gaming...

Red October Attackers Return With CloudAtlas APT Campaign

The attackers behind the Red October APT campaign that was exposed nearly two years ago have resurfaced with a new campaign that is targeting some of the same victims and using similarly constructed tools and spear phishing emails. Red October emerged in January 2013 and researchers found that th...

CryptoPHP Backdoor Hijacks Servers with Malicious Plugins & Themes

Security researchers have discovered thousands of backdoored plugins and themes for the popular content management systems CMS that could be used by attackers to compromise web servers on a large scale. The Netherlands-based security firm Fox-IT has published a whitepaper revealing a new Backdoor...

Oracle Java SE JRE Unspecified Vulnerability-05 (Oct 2014) - Linux

Oracle Java SE JRE is prone to an unspecified vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

OpenJDK: incorrect optimization of range checks in C2 compiler (Hotspot, 8022783)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u71, 6u81, and 7u67, and Java SE Embedded 7u60, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Hotspot...

OpenJDK: incorrect optimization of range checks in C2 compiler (Hotspot, 8022783)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u71, 6u81, and 7u67, and Java SE Embedded 7u60, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Hotspot...

OpenJDK: incorrect optimization of range checks in C2 compiler (Hotspot, 8022783)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u71, 6u81, and 7u67, and Java SE Embedded 7u60, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Hotspot...

OpenJDK: incorrect optimization of range checks in C2 compiler (Hotspot, 8022783)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u71, 6u81, and 7u67, and Java SE Embedded 7u60, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Hotspot...

Rovnix Variant Surfaces With New DGA

Researchers have unearthed a new version of the Rovnix malware that has a couple of additional features, including a new domain generation algorithm and a secure transmission channel for communicating with the command-and-control servers. Rovnix is a malware variant that often has been distribute...

Salesforce Warns Customers of Dyreza Banker Trojan Attacks

Salesforce.com is warning its customers that the Dyreza banker Trojan is now believed to be targeting some of the company’s users. The Trojan, which has the ability to bypass SSL, typically goes after customers of major banks, but seems to be expanding its reach. Dyreza is relatively new among th...

Bitbot C2 Panel gate2.php - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: Bitbot C2 Panel gate2.php SQLi + XSS Date: 08/19/2013 Exploit Author: Brian Wallace bwall aka @botnethunter Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/p/flippingbitbot/wiki/Home/ Vulnerable Virtual Machine including Bitbot Tested on: Debian/Ubuntu fro...

DGA Changer Malware Able to Modify Domain-Generation Seed on the Fly

Malware authors have been using domain-generation algorithms for a few years now, often in botnet-related malware that needs to stay one step ahead of takedown attempts and law enforcement agencies. Now, researchers have discovered that a strain of malware that may have been part of the attack in...

Cythosia 2.x Botnet (C2 Web Panel) - SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Cythosia Botnet SQL-Injection Vulnerability Date: 11.12.2013 Exploit Author: GalaxyAndroid Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Application Screenshots http://www.xylibox.com/2012/08/cythosia-botnet-vnloader.html Version: 2.x Tested on: Windows 7 with Xampp greets goes to: ChrisKSK, Protestant...

Cythosia 2.x Botnet (C2 Web Panel) - SQL Injection

Cythosia 2.x Botnet C2 Web Panel - SQL Injection Exploit Title: Cythosia Botnet SQL-Injection Vulnerability Date: 11.12.2013 Exploit Author: GalaxyAndroid Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Application Screenshots http://www.xylibox.com/2012/08/cythosia-botnet-vnloader.html Version: 2.x Tested on: Windows ...

Bitbot C2 Panel gate2.php - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Bitbot C2 Panel gate2.php SQLi + XSS Date: 08/19/2013 Exploit Author: Brian Wallace bwall aka @botnethunter Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/p/flippingbitbot/wiki/Home/ Vulnerable Virtual Machine including Bitbot Tested on...

Bitbot (C2 Web Panel) - 'gate2.php' Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit Title: Bitbot C2 Panel gate2.php SQLi + XSS Date: 08/19/2013 Exploit Author: Brian Wallace bwall aka @botnethunter Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/p/flippingbitbot/wiki/Home/ Vulnerable Virtual Machine including Bitbot Tested on: Debian/Ubuntu from StringIO import StringIO import...