Researchers Release Detection Tool For Gauss Malware's Palida Narrow Font

One of the many mysteries around the discovery of the Gauss malware is why the tool installs a new font called Palida Narrow on infected machines. Researchers have been unable to figure out yet what the purpose of the font is, but as its presence on a PC is a good indicator of a Gauss infection,...

Zeus malware targeting BlackBerry and Android devices

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered five new samples of the ZeuS-in-the-Mobile ZitMo malware package, targeting Android and BlackBerry devices. Zitmo Zeus in the mobile is the name given to the mobile versions of Zeus, and it's been around for a couple of years already, mostly...

New and Improved Madi Spyware Campaign Continues

Madi, the religiously-titled spyware that was discovered last week and thought to be dead, appears to be making a comeback, complete with updates. Kaspersky Lab researcher Nicolas Brulez reverse-engineered the new iteration of the malware, which surfaced on Wednesday. Unlike last week’s original...

Religious 'Madi' Spyware Spies on Critical Infrastructure in Middle East

A new variety of spyware has been targeting users in Iran, Israel and the Middle East for the last eight months according to joint research from Israeli security software firm Seculert and Kaspersky Lab. The new malware is using a variety of odd techniques and misdirection to entice users to...

AutoCAD Worm Stealing Designs, Blueprints

Security researchers have come across a new worm that is meant specifically to steal blueprints, design documents and other files created with the AutoCAD software. The worm, known as ACAD/Medre.A, is spreading through infected AutoCAD templates and is sending tens of thousands of stolen document...

US and Israel developed Flame Malware against Iran

US and Israel developed Flame Malware against Iran Unnamed Western officials confirmed that Flame was developed by US and Israeli governments. The United States and Israel jointly developed the Flame computer virus that collected intelligence to help slow Iran's nuclear program. The massive piece...

Attorney General Holder Announces Probe Into Cyberwar Leaks

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has issued an assignment to the U.S. District Attorneys to start an investigation into possible leaks of classified information, presumably by individuals within the Obama administration who recently spoke anonymously about the administration’s ties to the...

Six Additional Carberp Scammers Arrested For Stealing $3.67m

Six more members of the Carberp gang have been arrested, according reports from the Russian Interior Ministry. Working with the firm Group-IB, authorities arrested six individuals affiliated with the Carberp and Hodprot malware. The group is alleged to have been responsible for thefts from client...

DHS Says No Evidence That Flame Targets Industrial Systems, But Urges Caution

In and advisory, the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial control System ICS CERT said that it doesn’t believe the Flame malware targets industrial control systems ICS or SCADA systems, but the group advised critical infrastructure owners to be on alert. The advisory, issued Wednesday,...

New Mac Malware, SabPub, Used In Targeted Attacks

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab says a new malicious program, dubbed SabPub, exploits the same Java security hole as the Flashback Trojan and enables targeted attacks against Mac users. The new malware was identified in a blog post by Kaspersky Lab expert Costin Raiu on Saturday and is described as ...

Apple Developing Fix For Flashback Malware

Apple is planning to release a software fix that will find and remove the Flashback malware that has been haunting Mac users for several months now. The latest version of Flashback has built a botnet that at times has included more than 600,000 infected machines. Apple said on Tuesday that it was...

Flashback Bot Counts Fall, Researchers Set up Free Infection-Checking Site

Mac malware is still enough of an oddity that the existence of a single botnet made up of Macs has prompted a huge amount of publicity and finger-pointing in the general direction of Apple. The furor over the Flashback malware seems to be receding a bit, and researchers say that the number of...

Researchers Confirm 600K-Strong Flashback Botnet Is Mostly Mac

Kaspersky Lab researchers say that analysis of the Flashfake botnet confirms the size of the malicious network and that it consists mostly of Mac OS X machines. Researchers at Kaspersky wrote on Friday that they were able to reverse engineer the domain generation algorithm used by the botnet, the...

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...

New Ice IX Variant Steals Information From Facebook Users

A new iteration of the Ice IX malware has been spotted attacking Facebook users, according to researchers at Trusteer, who claim that now the malware is trying to swindle unsuspecting users out of sensitive information like credit card numbers and addresses. After launching a web injection, the...

Duqu's 'Mystery Code' Not New – Just 'Old School'

Researchers around the world put their heads together and solved the identity of ‘mystery code’ in the Duqu Trojan horse program, researchers from Kaspersky Lab announced on Monday. Weeks after announcing that they had discovered computer code of unknown provenance in the innards of the Duqu...

Trojan Dropper Uses Valid Certificate Issued For Swiss Company

A pair of trojan droppers affiliated with a pay-per-click scam are using valid digital signatures from a certificate that was issued for a Swiss company, according to a report on Securelist. Between December 2011 and March 7, 2012, the Kaspersky Security Network has detected around 5,000 instance...

Fake Antivirus Lives On, Now Infecting 200K WordPress Pages

A new series of mass-injections have been targeting WordPress sites as of late and appear to have already infected more than 200,000 web pages according to a report on Websense’s Security Labs blog earlier this week. The injections lead unsuspecting users to a bogus AV site that appears to perfor...

Valery Boronin and Vera Trubacheva

In a presentation on the second day, “Humans Are the Weakest Link,” Valery Boronin, Director DLP Research, R&D at Kaspersky Lab and Vera Trubacheva, a System Analyst at Kaspersky Lab, put DLP 1.0 or at least a small stuffed animal on trial, so to speak. Underscoring that when it comes down to it,...

Fabio Assolini

At one point during his talk on the conference’s second day, Kaspersky Lab researcher Fabio Assolini shows video of criminals affixing card skimming devices in broad daylight, in the presence of other bank customers. Assolini’s talk was on this so-called “Chupacabra malware,” and how the skimmers...