Kotlin-based malicious apps penetrate Google market

An open-source programming language, Kotlin is a fully-supported official programming language for Android. Google boasts that Kotlin contains safety features in order to make apps "healthy by default." Many apps are already built with Kotlin, from the hottest startups to Fortune 500 companies...

4 Malicious Chrome Extensions Put 500k Users at Risk of Click Fraud

By Waqas Presence of spyware and malware in Chrome browser extensions we use This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 4 Malicious Chrome Extensions Put 500k Users at Risk of Click Fraud...

Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai, a malware strain that remotely enslaves so-called "Internet of Things" devices such as security cameras, routers, and digital video...

Porn Site Becomes Hub for KovCoreG Group Malvertising Campaigns

Pornhub, a top-20 ranked U.S. website according to Alexa, was serving up large-scale malvertising attacks exposing millions of visitors to click-fraud. Behind the attacks is the KovCoreG Group, best known for distributing Kovter click-fraud malware. The campaigns, spotted by researchers at...

Warning: Millions Of P0rnHub Users Hit With Malvertising Attack

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Proofpoint have recently discovered a large-scale malvertising campaign that exposed millions of Internet users in the United States, Canada, the UK, and Australia to malware infections. Active for more than a year and still ongoing, the malware campaign is bei...

WireX Variant Capable of UDP Flood Attacks

The WireX botnet presented defenders with many superlatives: the largest mobile botnet ever; hundreds of mobile apps spreading application-layer DDoS malware; unprecedented cooperation between technology companies—even competitors—to halt some of its activities. And now a companion piece to WireX...

Mobile WireX DDoS Botnet 'Neutralized' by Collaboration of Competitors

A collaboration between leading content delivery networks and technology companies—some of them competitors—is in the midst of shutting down the largest botnet of mobile devices ever recorded. The WireX botnet was detected on Aug. 17 after businesses in a number industries, most notably...

NemucodAES Ransomware, Kovter Click-Fraud Malware Spreading in Same Campaigns

Two malware families, NemucodAES and Kovter, are being packaged together in .zip attachments and delivered via active spam campaigns. Researcher Brad Duncan said, “together these two pieces of malware could deliver a nasty punch.” Duncan, a handler at the SANS Institute Internet Storm Center, sai...

WordPress adsense-click-fraud-monitoring phpwhois cross-site scripting vulnerability

WordPress is a blogging platform developed by the WordPress Software Foundation using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers. adsense-click-fraud-monitoring is one of the malicious click monitoring plugins. phpwhois is a package containing Whois libraries fo...

CVE-2015-3998

phpwhois version 4.2.5 used in the WordPress adsense-click-fraud-monitoring plugin version 1.7.5 is documented to have a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker can inject arbitrary script or HTML via the query parameter to whois.php. The linked reports confirm the affected componen...

Hacker Who Used Linux Botnet to Send Millions of Spam Emails Pleads Guilty

A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in illicit profit has finally entered a guilty plea in the United States and is going to face sentencing in August. Maxim Senakh, 41, of Velikii Novgorod, Russia, pleaded guilty in a US federal...

Locky Ransomware, Kovter Click-Fraud Malware Spreading in Same Campaigns

Researchers at Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center have spotted malicious email campaigns using .lnk attachments to spread Locky ransomware and the Kovter click-fraud Trojan, the first time criminals have simultaneously distributed both pieces of malware. According to Microsoft, the .lnk file n...

Google to Block .js Attachments in Gmail

Spammers and cybercriminals have revived email-based attacks in the last year, giving new life to macro-based malware hidden in Word documents, and with greater intensity of late, .js files that run JavaScript on infected clients, largely to download malware from an attacker’s site. Google...

Turkish Hackers Are Giving Away Prizes For Participating In DDoS Attacks

DDoS has become a game now that could knock any service offline. A Turkish hacking group is encouraging individuals to join its DDoS-for-Points platform that features points and prizes for carrying out distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against a list of predetermined targets. The points...

Hackers Gamifies DDoS Attacks With Collaborative Platform

A Turkish hacking crew is luring participants to join its DDoS platform to compete with peers to earn redeemable points that are exchangeable for hacking tools and click-fraud software. The goal, security researchers say, is to “gamify” DDoS attacks in order to attract a critical mass of hackers...

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Wordpress plugin adsense-click-fraud-monitoring

WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language by the WordPress Software Foundation. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. The Wordpress plugin adsense-click-fraud-monitoring has a cross-site scripting vulnerability due to the lack ...

SoakSoak Botnet Pushing Neutrino Exploit Kit and CryptXXX Ransomware

Researchers are reporting a surge in CryptXXX ransomware infections delivered via business websites compromised to redirect to the Neutrino Exploit Kit. Attackers are targeting websites running the Revslider slideshow plugin for WordPress, according to a report released Tuesday by Invincea. Behin...

Chinese Ad Firm Infected 85 Million Android Users to Get More Clicks

An Android-based malware campaign has been found to control as many as 85 million Android devices globally and is making its gang an estimated $300,000 per month in fraudulent ad revenue. A Chinese advertising company called Yingmob is responsible for distributing the malware on a massive scale a...

1 Million Computers Hacked for making big Money from Adsense

A group of cyber criminals has infected as much as 1 Million computers around the world over the past two years with a piece of malware that hijacks search results pages using a local proxy. Security researchers from Romania-based security firm Bitdefender revealed the presence of this massive...

Click-Fraud Malware Spreading via JavaScript Attachments

A new malware campaign has been spotted that has begun seeding spam messages with a downloader heavily obfuscated with JavaScript. The SANS Internet Storm Center said today that two days ago, a flood of spam messages were observed laced with .js attachments. The JavaScript obfuscates a downloader...