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...

App Store bypassed by Russian hacker without jailbreaking

Apple is investigating yet another security breach in its iTunes app store . A Russian hacker worked out a way that allows people to bypass payment in the App Store and download products for free. The hacker, dubbed ZonD80, posted a video of the crack on YouTube Deleted by Youtube now and claims...

Russian Botnet Hacker arrested for hacking into six million computers

Russian Botnet Hacker arrested for hacking into six million computers Police have detained a 22-year-old hacker who created a system of networked computers that was used to steal more than 150 million rubles $4.47 million from people's bank accounts and already one of the most wanted hacker in th...

LinkedIn Investigating Password Leak That Could Affect 6.5 M

UPDATE Professional social networking site LinkedIn announced early Wednesday morning that it was looking into reports of stolen passwords, according to a post on their Twitter page. The tweet substantiates reports by several news outlets that a hacker was able to download the hashed passwords of...

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...

Anonymous Hackers Targeting Russian government websites for Putin Inauguration

Anonymous Hackers Targeting Russian government websites for Putin Inauguration Anonymous hackers to launch cyber attacks on the websites of the Russian state agencies to support the opposition. In a YouTube video , Hackers said that the Russian government website will be subjected to DDOS attack ...

Russian Mafia Organizes to Double Cybercrime Profits in 2011

The dollar-value of online criminal activity conducted by the Russian mafia and other criminal organizations doubled in 2011, according to a new report from the Russian security firm Group-IB. The global cyber crime market was worth $12.5 billion in 2011, the report claims. Russian-speaking...

Analysis: Flashback Spread Via Social Engineering, Then Java Exploits

Kaspersky Lab‘s latest analysis of the Mac OS X Flashback botnet reveals that the botnet’s malware was spread via drive-by downloads on hacked WordPress web sites. From September 2011 until February 2012, the Flashback creators distributed the trojan through compromised WordPress sites that...

U.S. Ambassador claim to be hacked by Russians

U.S. Ambassador claim to be hacked by Russians Michael McFaul, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, took to Twitter Thursday night to accuse Russian media organization NTV of hacking his cell phone and email account. "I respect the right of the press to go anywhere & ask any question. But do they have ...

Carberp: It's Not Over Yet

On 20 March, Russian law enforcement agencies announced the arrest of a cybercriminal gang involved in stealing money using the Carberp Trojan. This is very good news, but unfortunately does not mark the end of the Carberp story. Evidently, those arrested were just one of the criminal gangs using...

A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud

A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud A Russian Hacker, who was part of an elaborate Cyber attack that used Zeus Banking Trojan in U.S. visas to move cash stolen from U.S. businesses out of the country was sentenced on March 23 to two years in U.S. federal prison. Nikokay...

Russian Agencies Take Down Carberp Gang

A collaborative effort between a Russian security company and two Russian federal agencies has yielded the arrest of eight men allegedly involved in the Carberp Trojan scam, it was announced today. Officials from Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD and Federal Security Service FSB, along wi...

Rare RAM-Based Malware Attacks Visitors of Russian Information Sites

An advertising banner on a number of widely used Russian-content sites has been serving a rare, RAM-based form of malware, according to a Securelist report. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab recently received information from an independent researcher detailing mass infections that appeared to be...

Dutch News site spread Malware on 100000 Computers

Dutch News site spread Malware on 100000 Computers Dutch popular news site NU.nl appears to be serving Java exploit drive-by malware to users of IE. Nu.nl has approximately one hour long served the Javascript code that attempted to provide visitors to the news site with a trojan to infect. The...

Elections 2012 and DDoS attacks in Russia

Vitaly Kamluk As Eugene Kaspersky had written earlier, we were expecting new DDoS attacks on resources covering the Russian presidential election. So, as the country went to the polls on 4 March, we were on the lookout for new DDoS attacks. We were surprised to hear a news report from one mass...

DDoS Attacks Hit Russian Media Sites in Advance of Elections

While Russians prepare for their presidential election on March 4, attackers already are ahead of the game, having begun a series of DDoS attacks against several media sites and at least one site belonging to a candidate. The attacks are coming from several different botnets, but so far haven’t h...

Attackers Moving Zeus Servers to Former Soviet Union TLD

The groups of attackers that employ the Zeus toolkit for their scams and malware campaigns have long used sites in the .ru Russian TLD as homes for their botnet controllers. Security researchers and law enforcement agencies have had a difficult time making headway in getting these domains taken...

Koobface Gang Shuts Down C&C Server, Drops Offline

The crew behind the Koobface worm, who have been quite open about their exploits and financial gains from their work in the past, now seem to be ducking underground as pressure is building on them in the wake of exposures of their operation and real identities. The command-and-control server used...

Alleged Russian Cybercriminal Extradited to U.S.

Vladimir Zdorovenin, an alleged prolific Russian cybercriminal, has arrived in New York City following his arrest and subsequent extradition by Swiss authorities. The FBI had been working to find and extradite Zdorovenin for several years. Originally indicted under seal in May 2007, the 54-year-o...

Canopus IB FIVE Application - Auth Bypass Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Canopus IB FIVE Application - Auth Bypass Vulnerability References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/380.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh5Qd3mMIs Release Date: ============= 2012-01-13 Vulnerability Laboratory ID...