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This Week in Security News
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...
July 21, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Harry Potter” Edition
Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 21, 2017 - Headlines U.S. Justice Department Shuts Down Dark Web Bazaar...
Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Developing and Distributing Citadel Trojan
A Russian man accused of developing and distributing the Citadel Banking Trojan, which infected nearly 11 Million computers globally and caused over $500 Million in losses, has finally pleaded guilty to charges of computer fraud. Mark Vartanyan, 29, who was very well known as "Kolypto," pleaded...
Malware exploit: Citadel
Type: Remote Code Execution Author: Xylitol import urllib import urllib2 Citadel Backconnect Server 1.3.5.1 Remote Code Execution vulnerability Work only on windows box def requesturl, params=None, method='GET': if method == 'POST': urllib2.urlopenurl, urllib.urlencodeparams.read elif method ==...
Malware exploit: Citadel Server V1.3.5.1
Type: Remote Code Execution Author: Xylitol import urllib import urllib2 Citadel Backconnect Server 1.3.5.1 Remote Code Execution vulnerability Work only on windows box def requesturl, params=None, method='GET': if method == 'POST': urllib2.urlopenurl, urllib.urlencodeparams.read elif method ==...
ZeuS Banking Trojan Resurfaces As Atmos Variant
Old nemeses die hard, especially when you’re banking malware named ZeuS. According to Denmark-based Heimdal Security, the potent 9-year-old malware ZeuS has morphed into the up-and-coming Atmos malware – now targeting banks in France. Researchers are warning that the criminals behind Atmos have...
Gozi Co-Author Pleads Guilty As Authors Behind Citadel, Dridex Arrested
The author behind one strain of banking malware, Gozi, has plead guilty and is awaiting sentencing while two other men, who allegedly had a hand in developing the banking malware Citadel and Dridex, were recently apprehended. Latvian Deniss Calovskis, 30, acknowledged in a federal court in New Yo...
New Evasion Techniques Help AlienSpy RAT Spread Citadel Malware
Hackers have co-opted AlienSpy, a remote access tool, to deliver the Citadel banking Trojan and establish backdoors inside a number of critical infrastructure operations. AlienSpy is a descendent of the Adwind, Unrecom and Frutas Java-based remote access Trojans, according to security company...
New Citadel Trojan Targets Your Password Managers
Unless we are a human supercomputer, remembering password is not an easy task and that too, if you have a different password for every different site. But luckily to make the whole process easy, there is a growing market for password managers which provides an extra layer of protection. Wait! Wai...
Citadel Variant Targets Password Managers
The Citadel Trojan has once again branched out beyond its roots as banking malware and is now targeting the master passwords guarding major password management products. Researchers from IBM Trusteer today said they’ve notified makers of the nexus Personal Security Client, Password Safe and KeePa...
Citadel Used in Attacks Against Petrochemical Companies
Cybercrime tools continue to crossover into the realm of nation-state targeted attacks, with the latest example being a variant of the Citadel banking Trojan used in attacks against petrochemical companies in the Middle East. The attacks took place within the past few months, said researchers at...
Citadel Variant Opens Backdoor After Malware is Removed
When hackers have compromised a valuable computer, maintaining persistence on that machine is the key to maintaining access to its resources and stored assets. A new variant of the Citadel banking malware has been discovered that comes with a feature that allows the attacker to leverage remote...
Tinba Banker Trojan Source Code Posted
The source code for Tinba, known as the smallest banker Trojan in circulation, has been posted on an underground forum. Researchers say that the files turned out to be the source code for version one of Tinba, which was identified in 2012, and is the original, privately sold version of the...
Citadel/UX <= 6.27 Remote Root Format String Exploit
No description provided by source. / citadelfsexp.c Citadel/UX v6.27 remote format string exploit Use: ./citadelfsexp -h host options options: -h arg host or IP -t arg type of target system -l targets list -g arg syslog GOT address -r arg RET address coki@nosystem:/audit$ ./citadelfsexp -h...
Citadel/UX 5.9/6.x Username Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10833/info A buffer overrun vulnerability is reported for Citadel/UX. The problem occurs due to insufficient bounds checking when processing 'USER' command arguments. An anonymous remote attacker may be capable of...
Citadel SMTP <= 7.10 Remote Overflow Exploit
No description provided by source. Citadel SMTP = 7.10 Remote Overflow Exploit http://www.exploit-db.com/sploits/2008-vs-GNU-citadel.tar.gz milw0rm.com 2008-01-21...
Citadel/UX 5.9/6.x Username Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10833/info A buffer overrun vulnerability is reported for Citadel/UX. The problem occurs due to insufficient bounds checking when processing 'USER' command arguments. An anonymous remote attacker may be capable of...
Citadel WebCit 7.02/7.10 showuser who Parameter XSS
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24913/info Citadel WebCit is prone to multiple input-validation vulnerabilities, including multiple HTML-injection issues and a cross-site scripting issue, because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input dat...
Citadel/UX <= 6.23 Remote USER Directive Exploit (Private Version)
No description provided by source. / Citadel/UX remote exploit By nebunu: pppppppal at yahoo dot com This is the version which contains targets,abuse it kiddies Bruteforce: You only have 4096/4=1024 tries. The magic offset lies about 2048 + or - 4,8,16....256 So practically speaking you have...
DDoS Attacks a Cover for Financial Fraud, IP Theft
It’s difficult to imagine a noisier attack than a distributed denial-of-service attack. They’re an ever-present threat to banks and other businesses where the uptime of Web-based services is critical to customers and the well-being of an enterprise. And as a handful proved throughout 2013, they a...