Cryptolocker Ransomware makes different Bitcoin wallet for each victim

When you’re online, you expose your vulnerability to malicious virus that have been growing in virulence and ferocity over the last few years. Among home PC users, you may think that you protected from malicious software by Installing an effective, trusted antivirus solution, but most if the...

Icefog Targeted APT Attacks Hit South Korea, Japan

An espionage campaign featuring precise targeting of victims and malware that allows the attackers one-on-one interaction with compromised systems has been uncovered. Government agencies, manufacturers, high tech companies and media organizations in South Korea and Japan have been the primary...

Oil, Energy Watering Hole Attacks Linked to DOL attack

A string of watering hole attacks targeting oil and energy companies dating back to May could be linked to similar attacks against the U.S. Department of Labor website. Researchers at Cisco discovered the compromised domains of 10 oil and energy companies worldwide, including hydroelectric plants...

Tor Botnet Makes Bad Move to Anonymity Network

MEvade, the massive botnet using Tor as a communication protocol, may have moved operations to the network in order to hamper potential takedown efforts, but according to security researchers, the move just served to shine a spotlight on the botnet’s activities. Rather than hide traffic from bots...

Tor Anonymizing network overload caused by Mevade Botnet

Recently, Tor Project Director - Roger Dingledine described a sudden increase in Tor users on the Tor Network after the events related to disclosure of the PRISM surveillance program, Since August 19, 2013, there has been an impressive growth in the number of Tor users. At first, No one knew who ...

Huge Botnet Found Using Tor Network for Communications

In the wake of the revelations surrounding the NSA’s domestic surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations, security experts said there would likely be a natural uptick in the usage of privacy focused tools such as Tor, PGP and other encryption services. In the case of Tor, there has been...

Obad Trojan First to Spread Via Mobile Botnet

The keepers of the mobile Obad Trojan realize the window of opportunity they have to spread the malware on Android devices may be closing since the vulnerability the Trojan exploits has been patched in Android 4.3. That could explain why Kaspersky Lab researchers have spotted a recent spike in...

Adobe Photo Loader Malware Posts Craigslist Spam

An attacker is going to a lot of trouble to post spam messages to Craigslist. Researchers at Solera Networks have come across an attack where malware is using compromised machines to post poorly worded ads for an Android application marketed at parents for the purposes of monitoring the activitie...

Android Malware uses Google Cloud Messaging Service; infected over 5 Million Devices

The Kaspersky Lab researchers recently have discovered a number of Android malware apps are abusing the Google Cloud Messaging Service GCM as Command and Control server. The GCM service allows Android app developers to send messages using JSON Format for installed apps, but hackers exploited it f...

Android Malware uses Google Cloud Messaging Service; infected over 5 Million Devices

The Kaspersky Lab researchers recently have discovered a number of Android malware apps are abusing the Google Cloud Messaging Service GCM as Command and Control server. The GCM service allows Android app developers to send messages using JSON Format for installed apps, but hackers exploited it f...

Android Malware Found Exploiting Google Cloud Messaging Service

Researchers have discovered a number of malicious Android apps are using Google’s Cloud Messaging service and leveraging it as a command and control server to carry out attacks. A post on Securelist today by Kaspersky Lab’s Roman Unuchek, breaks down five Trojans that have been spotted checking i...

New Botnet Campaign 'Fort Disco' Brute-Forcing Thousands of WordPress, Joomla Websites

Password theft has been a growing problem within the security community. Researchers at Arbor Networks have uncovered a botnet called Fort Disco that was used to compromise more than 6000 websites based on popular CMSs such as WordPress, Joomla and Datalife Engine. The Fort Disco botnet is...

Microsoft: 88 Percent of Citadel Botnets Down

Nearly two months after the company was part of an operation to disrupt a large number of Citadel botnets, Microsoft said that 88 percent of the botnets spawned by that malware have been taken down. Citadel is a Trojan designed specifically to steal financial information from a variety of sources...

Vobfus Worm, Beebone Trojan Create Malware Infection Loop

It’s often difficult to say what came first. This is certainly the case when it comes to recent interactions between the Vobfus worm and Beebone Trojan families. Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center observed an infection cycle in the wild where Vobfus variants download Beebone variants that in...

NetTraveler Attackers Using PRISM Program as Bait

Never let it be said that attackers don’t keep up with the news. The crew behind the NetTraveler cyberespionage attacks is now using the news about the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program as bait in a new spear-phishing campaign. Security researcher Brandon Dixon of 9bplus came across a malicious...

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...

Most Sophisticated Android malware ever detected

A new piece of sophisticated Android malware has been discovered by security researchers at Kaspersky Labs. Dubbed as Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a, it is the most sophisticated piece of Android malware ever seen. It exploits multiple vulnerabilities, blocks uninstall attempts, attempts to gain root...

NetTraveler Espionage Malware Campaign Ties to Gh0st RAT

A new cyberespionage malware campaign with ties to China going back to the Titan Rain and Gh0stNet attacks has been targeting diplomats, military contractors and government agencies in 40 countries. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today unveiled details on NetTraveler, a data exfiltration tool, whic...

Activating mobile malware with Music and Light Sensors

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB presented the research that it is possible to trigger malware hidden in mobile devices using music, lighting, or vibration. In a research paper titled "Sensing-Enabled Channels for Hard-to-Detect Command and Control of Mobile Devices", th...

Ruby on Rails Exploit Harvests IRC Botnet

Developers who have not updated their Ruby on Rails installations with a five-month-old security patch would do well to secure the Web development framework now. Exploit code has surfaced for CVE-2013-0156 that is being used to build a botnet of compromised servers. Exploit code has been publicly...