Israel's Verint Systems get a contract from Indian government for interception program

Soon in December this year, India’s new surveillance program - Centralized Monitoring System CMS will be able to analyze all telecommunications and Internet communications in India by the government and its agencies. This means that everything we say or text over the phone, write, post or browse...

Fake FBI Ransomware Targeting OS X Users

The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued an alert yesterday warning users about a strain of ransomware purporting to come from the FBI that is targeting Mac OS X machines. This time, the ransomware isn’t malware at all, but a website that uses JavaScript to load numerous iframes. The webpage...

Ubuntu Update for openssl USN-1898-1

Check for the Version of openssl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN18981.nasl 7958 2017-12-01 06:47:47Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for openssl USN-1898-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : openssl vulnerability (USN-1898-1)

The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext content by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a provided string potentially...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1898-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

USN-1898-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows machine-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext content by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a provided string potentially...

Cybercriminals using hijacked Cloud hosting accounts for targeted attacks

US Cloud hosting providers are constantly targeted by cyber crime according the revelations of two malware researchers Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at Cisco Systems, and Dave Monnier security expert at Team Cymru explained during the 2013 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summi...

Liberty Reserve Domains Seized, Money Laundering Charged

Federal law enforcement officials in the United States seized domains belonging to the Costa Rican-based Liberty Reserve, a payment processor, money transfer service, and digital currency exchange reportedly used by criminals as a means for laundering money. Liberty Reserve was also the subject o...

Liberty Reserve founder arrested for money laundering, service closed down

Liberty Reserve, a payment processor similar to Paypal was down on Saturday after the founder of Liberty Reserve, Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk, 39, on Friday was reportedly arrested in Spain by Costa Rican authorities after his they raided suspect´s home and offices in San José and Heredia. Mr...

The biggest bank robbery in history, Hackers stole $45 million

They didn't use guns, masks or even threatening notes passed to bank tellers. It may be the largest bank robbery in history. A gang of cyber-criminals operating in 26 countries stole $45 million by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards. Reportedly, the group of hackers targeted...

Hacker insulted Thai Prime Minister, official website defaced with abusive comments

The official website of the Office of the Thai Prime Minister was quickly taken down after a hacker defaced the website with abusive message pasted next to an altered photograph of a laughing Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The words "I'm a slutty moron" appeared briefly alongside a picture o...

Mysterious Avatar rootkit with API, SDK, and Yahoo Groups for C&C communication

Early 2012 ESET company a mysterious malware, dubbed the Avatar rootkit Win32/Rootkit.Avatar, advertised in the underground forums by Russian cyber crime. "We present you here previously announced product. In connection with work on other projects, we moved the release date for the public from Ma...

Mysterious Avatar rootkit with API, SDK, and Yahoo Groups for C&C communication

Early 2012 ESET company a mysterious malware, dubbed the Avatar rootkit Win32/Rootkit.Avatar, advertised in the underground forums by Russian cyber crime. "We present you here previously announced product. In connection with work on other projects, we moved the release date for the public from Ma...

Fraud-as-a-Service of Zeus Malware advertised on social network

Cyber crime enterprise is showing a growing interest in monetization of botnets, the most targeted sector in recent months is banking. One of most active malware that still menaces Banking sector is the popular Zeus. Zeus is one of the oldest, it is active since 2007, and most prolific malware th...

Fraud-as-a-Service of Zeus Malware advertised on social network

Cyber crime enterprise is showing a growing interest in monetization of botnets, the most targeted sector in recent months is banking. One of most active malware that still menaces Banking sector is the popular Zeus. Zeus is one of the oldest, it is active since 2007, and most prolific malware th...

Police in Japan ask ISPs to start blocking Tor network

Tor is a web service that allows users to surf the Internet, use IM, and other services while keeping themselves completely anonymous, but Japan's National Police Agency wants ISPs to block access to Tor if users are found to have abused it. The push by Japanese authorities is because they're...

Police in Japan ask ISPs to start blocking Tor network

Tor is a web service that allows users to surf the Internet, use IM, and other services while keeping themselves completely anonymous, but Japan's National Police Agency wants ISPs to block access to Tor if users are found to have abused it. The push by Japanese authorities is because they’re...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Hunting Russian malware author behind Phoenix Exploit Kit

Exploit kits are one of the dangerous cyber crime tool, where The Phoenix Exploit Kit is a good example of exploit packs used to exploit vulnerable software on the computers of unsuspecting Internet users. The Phoenix Exploit Kit is available for a base price of $2,200 in underground market by it...