Facebook Helps FBI to shuts down Butterfly botnet theft $850 millions

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday that they’ve arrested 10 suspects from from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States involved in a global botnet operation that infected more than 11 million systems. The ring is said to...

Nitol Infections Fall, But Malware Still Popping Up

When Microsoft went after the Nitol botnet in September, one of the key details in the investigation was the fact that much of the botnet was built by pre-loading malware onto laptops during the manufacturing process in China. This was the clearest case yet of the phenomenon of certified pre-owne...

9 million PCs infected with ZeroAccess botnet

In recent months, we've seen the rootkit family Win32/Sirefef and Win64/Sirefef also known as ZeroAccess Botnet update its command and control protocol and grow to infect more computers while connecting to over one million computers globally. Before, disclosed that it creates its own hidden...

Mariposa botnet creator goes on trial

26-year-old Slovenian hacker known as Iserdo stands thought to have been behind the Mariposa botnet is on trial in Slovenia, charged with having masterminded an international cybercrime gang. At its height, the Mariposa botnet infected up to 12.7 million PCs, with more than half of the Fortune...

PT-2013-29: Information Disclosure in Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected "Information Disclosure" vulnerability in Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7. By opening a manipulated project file, sensitive data can be transmitted over the network or a DoS condition can be provoked. How to fix Update your software up...

Siemens Patches Stuxnet-Like SCADA Bugs

German industrial control system manufacturer Siemens announced Monday that it had patched holes in some of its products that appear to resemble holes used by the famous Stuxnet worm in 2010. If left unpatched, vulnerabilities in the company’s Simatic STEP 7 and Simatic PCS 7 software could have...

PT-2013-26: Information Disclosure in Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected "Information Disclosure" vulnerability in Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7. Users with legitimate, non-privileged access to WinCC MS SQL database can retrieve obfuscated user passwords for WebNavigator. For doing this, access to the...

PT-2013-27: Directory Traversal in Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected "Directory Traversal" vulnerability in Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7. Authenticated users may manipulate the URL in the web browser to access the file system of the web server. With this vulnerability they may read all the files that...

Root Access Vulnerability on ZTE Android Device

Certain Android devices manufactured by the China-based ZTE Corporation contain a poorly protected setuid shell that can be used to gain root-access to vulnerable devices, according to Lookout Mobile Security. Any attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability will have complete control of...

Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 DLL Vulnerability

Overview Siemens has released a software update for a DLL hijacking vulnerability in SIMATIC STEP 7 and SIMATIC PCS 7 software. Previous versions of SIMATIC STEP 7 and PCS 7 allowed the loading of malicious DLL files into the STEP 7 project folder that can be used to attack the system on which ST...

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.95070 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die 12...

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.95070 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die 12...

New Worm Morto Using RDP to Infect Windows PCs

A new worm called Morto has begun making the rounds on the Internet in the last couple of days, infecting machines via RDP Remote Desktop Protocol. The worm is generating a large amount of outbound RDP traffic on networks that have infected machines, and Morto is capable of compromising both...

Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants (USA) got Hacked by #Antisec

Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants USA got Hacked Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants USA got hacked by Anonymous Hackers & Antisec operation Hackers. Database of website has been extracted and leaked on internet via tweeter on Pastebin.The leaked Data extracted Includes...

Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants (USA) got Hacked by #Antisec

Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants USA got Hacked Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants USA got hacked by Anonymous Hackers & Antisec operation Hackers. Database of website has been extracted and leaked on internet via tweeter on Pastebin.The leaked Data extracted Includes...

Microsoft Says Rustock Botnet Cut in Half

In March, Microsoft announced that its Digital Crimes Unit had scored a major victory in the war against hackers with the takedown of the Rustock botnet. Since then, the company has continued to monitor the activity of the network and the machines infected with the Rustock-related malware and fou...

Report: Rustock Operators or Operator

A Krebsonsecurity piece looks into the unknown party behind the Rustock botnet, and whether it may have been operated by just one person. By interviewing investigators involved in the takedown, a joint operation carried out by Microsoft, FireEye, and various law enforcement agencies, Krebs...

World's Largest Touchscreen Hacked !

It's gigantic ! It can handle over 100 simultaneous touch points! It has a curvature of 135 degrees! And best of all, it is NOT the newest, insanely expensive gadget to hit the market. Instead, this touchscreen was hacked together with a bunch of PCs, video cameras, projectors and cheap infrared...

Conficker Working Group: Efforts To Fight Botnet A Mixed Bag

A new report from the Conficker Working Group concludes that coordinated efforts to stomp out the botnet were a mixed bag: helping to thwart the worm’s efforts to register Web domains that it used to spread, but failing to remove the worm from infected Windows computers. The report released this...

Microsoft botnet take down will not stop spam !

A prominent security researcher said he doubts Microsoft's take down of the Waledac botnet would have any impact on spam levels, as the company claimed. "Waledac just is not a hugely prolific spammer," said Joe Stewart, director of malware analysis at SecureWorks and a noted botnet researcher. "S...