Citadel Banking Malaware Variant Delivers Localized Content

With builders for the Citadel Trojan freely available on any number of underground criminal forums, it’s no surprise to see some legs left in the malware despite a takedown of more than 1,400 Citadel botnets less than a month ago by U.S. law enforcement and Microsoft. A new variant has popped up ...

Carberp Source Code Leaked

The source code for the Carberp Trojan, which typically sells for $40,000 on the underground, has been leaked and is now available to anyone who wants it. The leak has echoes of the release of the Zeus crimeware source code a couple of years ago and has security researchers concerned that it may...

FBI seized Citadel banking Trojan servers

Microsoft and the FBI have taken down a botnet that controlled millions of infected PCs, which was responsible for massive bank fraud. Botnets are networks of computers infected with viruses that let them be controlled by hackers. The outfit runs the Citadel Botnets and is believed to have stolen...

Operation b54 Knocks 1,000+ Citadel Botnets Offline

UPDATE – Calling it the company’s “most aggressive” botnet operation operation to date, Microsoft has joined with the FBI for a massive disruption of the Citadel botnet. More than 1,400 individual botnets associated with the Citadel malware affecting more than five million people in total were...

FBI seized Citadel banking Trojan servers

Microsoft and the FBI have taken down a botnet that controlled millions of infected PCs, which was responsible for massive bank fraud. Botnets are networks of computers infected with viruses that let them be controlled by hackers. The outfit runs the Citadel Botnets and is believed to have stolen...

Citadel SMTP RCPT Remote Buffer Overflow - High Confidence (CVE-2008-0394)

The Citadel Server is a mail server product geared towards small and medium size organizations. The product implements POP3, IMAP4, and SMTP services. The SMTP server module is installed and started in a default installation. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in Citadel SMTP Server. Th...

Citadel Banking Malware Targets Payza Payment Service

A new variant of Citadel malware is making the rounds that is targeting Payza, a money transfer service popular all over the world, especially in developing nations that are under-serviced when it comes to accessing the Internet. The payment processing company bills itself as “your money’s gatewa...

What does the Poetry with Citadel trojan ?

Recently we published an article on the attacks against Japanese banks using a new variant of the popular Zeus, one of the most prolific malware of recent history, security experts in fact have detected various versions of the popular malicious code that hit also mobile and social networking...

What does the Poetry with Citadel trojan ?

Recently we published an article on the attacks against Japanese banks using a new variant of the popular Zeus, one of the most prolific malware of recent history, security experts in fact have detected various versions of the popular malicious code that hit also mobile and social networking...

NBC Website Hacked, Leading Visitors to Citadel Banking Malware

Another day, another media company hacked. This time it’s NBC which has fallen to victim hackers on the heels of compromises of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal websites. Various experts have confirmed that NBC’s website is compromised and leading visitors to the dangerous Citadel banki...

Citadel Trojan: It's Not Just for Banking Fraud Anymore

Banking malware has primarily been just that, an attack tool used against financial institutions to steal money from online bank accounts. But what if cybercrime gangs decided to flip that on its head, and use malware such as the Citadel banking Trojan to steal credentials from not only banks, bu...

Researchers Deconstruct Pobelka Botnet

How many inconspicuous botnets are alive and siphoning banking credentials and real money from online accounts that get little to no attention? They feast on unwitting consumers using an array of available banking Trojans to steal legitimate log-in information and sell it to the highest bidder,...

FBI Warns of New Twist to Reveton, Citadel Malware Scams

The cybercrime group behind the Citadel malware and Reveton ransomware has upped the stakes with a new extortion technique, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center said today. Reveton scams have now co-opted the Internet Crime Complaint Center with a new fake warning to users whose computers ha...

Ransomware Scams Netting Criminals Up To $33,000 a Day

Ransomware pays. A lot. These extortion scams, in which infected computers are essentially locked down by malware and electronic payment is demanded for a supposed cure, can net the criminal behind the scam as much as $33,000 per day. Symantec studied 16 variants of independently developed...

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...

Airport VPN hacked using Citadel malware

It sounds like an air traveler's nightmare, Researchers at Trusteer recently uncovered a variant of the Citadel Trojan targeting the virtual private network VPN credentials used by employees at a major airport.The firm would not disclose the name of the airport because the situation is being...

Citadel Malware Used to Infiltrate Airport VPN

The Citadel Trojan is really starting to become kind of a pain in the neck. Not content to sit by and watch while its more well-known rivals Zeus and SpyEye get all the attention, the Citadel malware has begun showing up in some interesting places, with the latest example being the discovery of t...

Dorifel Malware Encrypts Files, Steals Financial Data, May Be Related to Zeus or Citadel

While much of the world was focused yesterday on the Gauss malware saga, there was another interesting infection happening, mainly in the Netherlands, that researchers think may be related to the Zeus and Citadel attacks, though the motivation behind the attack is somewhat of a mystery. The new...

Reveton Ransomware uses Fake FBI Message to Extort Money

The FBI today warned of Internet-borne malware masquerading as a message from the law enforcement agency that locks computers until the user pays a fine for allegedly downloading and/or distributing illegal content. “We’re getting inundated with complaints,” Donna Gregory of the Internet Crime...

U.S. Still Tops at Hosting Phishing Sites

There are a lot of things that the United States is no longer so good at doing: eating vegetables or winning major marathons, for example. But one thing that the U.S. still does really well is provide comfortable hosting platforms for phishing sites. In fact, about 60 percent of all phishing site...