Chinese Hackers exploiting Internet Explorer Zero Day vulnerability for Cyber Espionage

Web site for the Council on Foreign Relations was compromised and recently hit by a drive-by attack that was detected earlier this week. Hacker are suspected to be from China , who are exploiting a zero day Internet Explorer vulnerability for Cyber Espionage attack against one of American most...

Korean Cyber espionage attack Targets Russia

Ask an expert on cyber espionage and he for sure he will speak of China, the most active and advanced country in this sector, this time a clamorous campaign apparently originated from Korea has been discovered. Security company FireEye collected evidences of a cyber espionage campaign, named...

'Sanny' Malware Targeting Russian Space, IT, Telecom Industries

Attackers, purportedly hailing from Korea, have been targeting individuals in Russia’s aerospace, IT, education and telecommunication industries with hopes of extracting their passwords and credentials. According to a post on FireEye’s Malware Intelligence Lab by researchers Alex Lanstein and Ali...

New Backdoor DDoS Malware Co-Existing on Gh0stRAT-Infected Machines

Gh0st RAT has a new roommate. A new backdoor called ADDNEW has been discovered on machines infected with the Gh0st remote access Trojan, adding new distributed denial of service attack capabilities, as well as a feature that targets passwords and credentials stored on the Firefox browser. Gh0st R...

Social Engineers Launch New Attack on Embattled Banks

As a number of major U.S. financial institutions deal with the aftermath of what was perhaps the largest DDoS campaign ever, researchers at FireEye are reporting on a separate phishing attack that establishes a channel of malicious communications on its victims’ computers. The attack is affecting...

Backdoor.LV Samples On the Rise

A strain of malware called Backdoor.LV that uses a custom protocol over port 80 to communicate with its command and control server has been consistently increasing its reach since May, according to a report from FireEye. The security firm observed Backdoor.LV determining its host’s NetBIOS name,...

JRE remote code execution 0DAY-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

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FireEye spotted Critical 0-day vulnerability in Java Runtime Environment

FireEye's Malware Intelligence Lab is making the claim that there is a new zero day vulnerability in the wild that affects the latest version of Java.Researcher. Atif Mushtaq wrote on the company's blog that he spotted the initial exploit on a domain that pointed to an IP address in China. The...

New Java Zero Day Being Used in Targeted Attacks

There is a newly discovered zero day vulnerability in Java 7 that is being used in some targeted attacks right now. The vulnerability works against Internet Explorer and Firefox and researchers say that attackers are exploiting in the wild and installing a version of the Poison Ivy RAT on...

Java 7 Applet - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' require 'rex' class Metasploit3 false def initialize inf...

MyAgent Trojan Targets Defense and Aerospace Industries

FireEye Security experts are analyzing a targeted trojan that leverages emailed PDF files to gain access to systems and deliver its payload to specified networks in the aerospace, chemical, defense and tech industries. "We have seen different versions of this malware arriving as an exe inside a...

Email Trojan Targeting Defense, Aerospace and Other Industries

What has the makings of a targeted attack campaign against several high-value industries is using a Trojan that employs rigged PDFs to deliver its payload. Targeting organizations in the defense, chemical, technology, and aerospace industries, the MyAgent trojan is primarily spreading through ema...

Grum Botnet Briefly Revived, Now Dead Again

Botnets are a lot like dandelions; you think they’re dead and then when you’re not looking they pop right back up. It’s happened time and again in the malware ecosystem and the latest member of the undead botnet society is Grum, which was only just taken down last week. Over the weekend several o...

Researchers Pull the Plug on Remaining Grum Botnet C&C Servers

Just a couple of days after authorities in the Netherlands pulled the plug on two of the four command-and-control servers behind the Grum spam botnet, the remaining C&C servers have been taken offline as well, thanks to a cooperative effort among researchers. As a result, the number of...

Dutch Authorities Knock Out Grum Botnet C&C Servers

Dutch authorities have knocked out two of the command-and-control servers for one of the top spam-producing botnets, known as Grum. The action was not a complete knockout though, as there are still two other C&C servers at work, but researchers are optimistic that the volume of spam will drop as ...

Active Zeus C&Cs Remain Following Microsoft Takedown

It appears that Microsoft’s recent Zeus takedown attempt left some bots behind. Days after the company announced it had sinkholed the troublesome botnet, researchers say that there are still some C&C domains active. FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab’s Atif Mushtaq is reporting that, despite a...

ISPs Signal Support For Anti-Bot Code Of Conduct

The U.S.’s leading Internet Service Providers signed on to a new Federal Communications Commission code of conduct to limit the impact of major cyber security threats including botnets, attacks on the Domain Name System DNS and Internet routing attacks. AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Sprint, Ti...

Microsoft Takes Down Kelihos Botnet

Continuing its legal assault on botnet operators and the hosting companies that the criminals use for their activities, Microsoft has announced new actions against a group of people it contends are responsible for the operation of the Kelihos botnet. The company has also helped to take down the...

Harnig Botnet Returns, But Without Rustock

The takedown of the Rustock botnet earlier this year has had ripple effects throughout the malware and spam ecosystems, with some large reductions in spam levels and attacks. However, some of the components of the malware machine driven by Rustock are beginning to come back online now. Researcher...

Rustock Author May Be Former Google Hopeful

As Microsoft’s crusade against the Rustock botnet continues, a new article from Brian Krebs claims the formerly prolific botnet’s author may be a self-described mathematician and software engineer who once sought employment from Google. According to Krebs, who cites court documents filed by the...