Malicious code in @epc-libraries/kinesis-service (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware c2395684a2ae7565ee6ee411ffbdf038c8b48b3c3a2ffe473e90087627b114bb Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in gfg-security-utilities (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 09b1baa087e5a15e5191847e961ff42d2590015816e2d532ceb01dbbe5c65264 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in eslint-plugin-kavak (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 89ac6e77aa5aa6dec64f082bee8330aa686fd2d7d315dc1d474cbaaddbc1c7c4 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in opsie (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 426f9b1685691f0a12789895f107fef1a2bf8aa781bfa45688109bcf83c849d3 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade on APT Fourth-Party Collection

Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade talk to Mike Mimoso live from Virus Bulletin in Madrid about APTs leveraging one anothers’ attacks and compromised machines as their own. The practice, known as fourth-party collection, is wreaking havoc for researchers with regard to attribution...

Inside the xDedic Hacked Server Marketplace

An underground market peddling hacked servers was a unique find, even for a seasoned researcher such as Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade of Kaspersky Lab. But there it was, xDedic.biz selling access to tens of thousands of servers for pennies on the dollar. A Russian-speaking hacker group was...

Malware Attacks Against Linux 2.6 Websites

The risks presented by unsupported operating systems are being called out in a large-scale attack on hundreds of websites. Hackers have hit web servers running a version of the Linux 2.6 kernel released seven years ago. The result is a multistage attack where compromised websites are spiked with...

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...

Russian Cyber Criminals selling hacked websites access in Underground stores

Underground sites more commonly offer access to networks of compromised machines or stolen credit card information. Webroot has uncovered a criminal underground store dedicated to selling access to more than tens of thousands of hacked legitimate websites. Their customers can buy an administrator...

Command and Control Used in Sanny APT Attacks Shut Down

Two message boards used by the Sanny malware as a command-and-control channel have been shut down by the Korea Information Security Agency in conjunction with security company FireEye. Sanny is a targeted attack, attributed to attackers in Korea, against individuals working in Russia’s aerospace,...

Virut and Waledac Botnets Spamming from Shared Machines

In an analysis of Virut botnet samples, Symantec researchers observed the malware downloading Waledac variants, suggesting that the gangs responsible for each botnet may be cooperating with one another through some sort of affiliate program, or, at the very least, that the two threats coexist and...

Trojan Mimics Chrome Installer to Steal Banking Information

Malware impersonating a Google Chrome Installer is actually stealing data while stripping software used to protect online banking transactions. The Trojan at present appears to target users in Brazil and Peru. Trend Micro researchers report in a blog post that they have discovered a malicious fil...

TDSS Rootkit and DNSchanger: An Unholy Alliance

The TDSS rootkit has proven to be more pliable and adaptable than a campaigning politician, and attackers have used it in various forms for the last three or four years for all sorts of different attacks. It shows up in drive-by downloads, targeted attacks and just about everything in between, an...

Attackers Exploiting Critical Flash Bug Via Drive-By Download

Attackers have begun actively exploiting the critical Adobe Flash vulnerability that Adobe patched last week, using rigged Web pages and phishing techniques to compromise vulnerable machines. The attack code is being hosted on a number of sites around the Web right now, researchers said. Adobe...

Qakbot Virus Causes Possible Data Breach at Mass. Agencies

An untold number of computers at the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and Department of Career Services were compromised in April, leading state officials to warn hundreds of thousands of people that their personal information may have been stolen as part of the attack. However...

FBI cracks International Bot Network !

FBI cracks International Bot Network ! The Department of Justice and FBI declared that it has cracked a network of hackers, who have infected almost 2 million computers with a harmful "bot" program, Coreflood that steals private and monetary data from computers. Identified as a "bot" network- as...

The Root of the Botnet Epidemic

Over the course of a few days in February 2000, a lone hacker was able to bring some of the Web’s larger sites to their knees, using just a few dozen machines and some relatively primitive software to cripple Yahoo, eBay, Etrade, Amazon, ZDnet and others for hours at a time. No one knew it at the...

GhostNet shows extent of online spying

As a result of some tremendous work done by researchers at the University of Toronto, we now know that there is an enormous network of compromised machines in more than 100 countries around the world, many of them in government agencies, embassies and other sensitive locations. The network has it...

[SECURITY] Some Debian Project machines have been compromised

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/ Some Debian Project machines compromised [email protected] November 21st, 2003 [email protected] -...

[SECURITY] Some Debian Project machines have been compromised

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/ Some Debian Project machines compromised [email protected] November 21st, 2003 [email protected] -...