New Ransom malware infecting computers

The Metropolitan Police have issued an urgent warning about a new ransom malware that is in circulation. Ransomware also referred to in some cases as cryptoviruses, cryptotrojans or cryptoworms comprises a class of malware which restricts access to the computer system that it infects, and demands...

Citadel Malware Used to Infiltrate Airport VPN

The Citadel Trojan is really starting to become kind of a pain in the neck. Not content to sit by and watch while its more well-known rivals Zeus and SpyEye get all the attention, the Citadel malware has begun showing up in some interesting places, with the latest example being the discovery of t...

Dorifel Malware Encrypts Files, Steals Financial Data, May Be Related to Zeus or Citadel

While much of the world was focused yesterday on the Gauss malware saga, there was another interesting infection happening, mainly in the Netherlands, that researchers think may be related to the Zeus and Citadel attacks, though the motivation behind the attack is somewhat of a mystery. The new...

Reveton Ransomware uses Fake FBI Message to Extort Money

The FBI today warned of Internet-borne malware masquerading as a message from the law enforcement agency that locks computers until the user pays a fine for allegedly downloading and/or distributing illegal content. “We’re getting inundated with complaints,” Donna Gregory of the Internet Crime...

Citadel Malware Crew May Be Taking Its Wares Off the Market

It turns out that malware authors–at least some of them–may have an interest in economics. Perhaps worried about market saturation or commoditization, the distributors of the Citadel malware, which has been used to deliver ransomware in the past, are apparently about to take their creation off th...

FBI Warns Users of New 'Reveton' Scareware Scam

The FBI is warning consumers about a new scam that’s using a piece of malware called Citadel to redirect users to a scam site that installs scareware on their machines and demands a $100 payment to unlock them. The twist in this scam is that it uses the threat of prosecution by the Department of...

Zeus 2.x variant includes ransomware features

Zeus 2.x variant includes ransomware features Cybercriminals are getting more sophisticated, as reports are coming in that hacker coders have successfully merged a ransom trojan with a Zeus malware successor called Citadel. A notorious malware platform targeting financial information has added a...

Malware Poses as US Department of Justice Violation Notice

Posing as the US Department of Justice DoJ, a new variant of the Citadel Malware called Reveton is responsible for a ransomware campaign that attempts to extort $100 from its victims. The infections are occurring after users are lured to a drive-by download site where a dropper installs the Citad...

Malware Campaign Extorts Users with SOPA Threats

A new scareware-ransomware hybrid attempts to convince users they are being sued in violation of the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA and offers to remedy the problem if users purchase a fake antivirus solution. The malware claims to have detected illegal torrent files on the computer and offers to...

Ransomware replaces Windows MBR and asking users for Money

Ransomware replaces Windows MBR and asking users for Money Security researchers from TrendMicro, F-Secure and Dr. Web have intercepted two new ransomware variants currently circulating in the wild. This new ransomware variant prevents infected computers from loading Windows by replacing their...

Fedora Update for rubygem-rack FEDORA-2012-0233

Check for the Version of rubygem-rack OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for rubygem-rack FEDORA-2012-0233 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

Ransomware Claims To Sniff Out Porn For The Police

Peddlers of ransomware are increasing their effectiveness by tailoring region-specific versions of a scam that impersonates local police. Microsoft has identified four variants of a ransomware scheme in which online criminals are using the good name of law enforcement agencies to trick victims in...

Microsoft Unveils New Windows Defender Offline Tool

Microsoft has released a beta version of a new tool that can help victims of malware attacks recover from ugly infections, even if they don’t have the ability to reach the Internet. The Windows Defender Offline tool enables users to clean their systems of malware from a CD or other removable medi...

Trojan Makes Child-Porn Accusation, Locks Computer, Requests $17

A new ransomware scam locks down its victims’ computers, attempting to convince them that child pornography has been found therein, and informs users that their machine will be unlocked only after paying a $17 500 ruble fine, according to a BitDefender analysis reported by MalwareCity. The trojan...

YieldManager Ad Network Serving Malvertising

One of the world’s largest advertising networks, YieldManager, has been serving ransomware to websites from all over the world. The malvertising campaign was first detected by Armorize’s HackAlert scanning farm. While the websites affected are international, the exploit server itself, at the...

Symantec: Boot Sector Malware In Vogue

HED: Symantec: Boot Sector Malware Back In Style DEK: Malware writers are turning to boot record malware to infect systems – a throwback to earlier forms of malware. What’s old is new again. This time it’s boot sector malware – fashionable around the turn of the Millenium – that’s making a...

New GPCode Ransomware Raises Encryption Bar and Price For Key

Researchers have found a new version of the virulent GPCode ransomware that infects users’ machines and then encrypts their hard drives. The new version uses AES encryption and demands payment in the form of Ukash cards in exchange for the key to decrypt the files. The new iteration of GPCode...

Virus War : Be aware of bogus e-mails !

The past year reached a new record high for bogus e-mails that clog people's inboxes and can release damaging and costly viruses on computers. Nearly 90 percent of sent e-mail is a ruse to rip off unsuspecting Internet users, according to data released by the computer security firm Symantec. The...

Week in Security: Wikileaks Extravaganza, New Ransomware and Open-Source Attacks

It was difficult to go anywhere this week without hearing about the flurry of activity surrounding the Wikileaks data dump. A slew of denial-of-service attacks followed soon after, while new ransomware and attacks on open-source software filled out the rest of the week’s news. Read on for the wee...

New Seftad Ransomware Attacks Master Boot Record

One day after a new version of the GpCode ransomware popped up, researchers have discovered another piece of malware that overwrites the master boot record on infected machines and demands a payment of $100 to reverse the damage. The new MBR-infecting ransomware is known as Seftad and it has a...