Low-Cost Ransomware Service Discovered

A new ransomware as a service RaaS called Karmen has been discovered by security researchers at Recorded Future. This service allows anyone, including novices, to set up an account and customize their own ransomware campaign. The Karmen RaaS costs $175 and lets buyers set ransom prices, determine...

List of 8,000 FTP Credentials for Sale in Underground Forums

Hackers are targeting FTP upload sites with the hopes of redirecting victims to spam or even infecting webservers that rely on FTP applications for updates. Hold Security reported yesterday it had secured a list of credentials for close to 7,800 FTP sites being circulated in cybercrime forums. Th...

Questions Linger About New Linux 'Hand of Thief' Trojan

It looks like cybercriminals will soon be able to add yet another Trojan to their hacking repertoire, the Hand of Thief banking malware that targets Linux machines. Currently being sold on the Russian black market, Hand of Thief is fetching $2,000 USD €1,500 EUR but could be poised to run a cool...

Fraud-as-a-Service of Zeus Malware advertised on social network

Cyber crime enterprise is showing a growing interest in monetization of botnets, the most targeted sector in recent months is banking. One of most active malware that still menaces Banking sector is the popular Zeus. Zeus is one of the oldest, it is active since 2007, and most prolific malware th...

Cross Platform Trojan builder distributed on underground forums

A Cross platform back door 'Frutas' remote access tool RAT is available for download on many forums from January 2013. This Trojan builder is completely written in Java. Recently, Symantec experts analyse that Frutas RAT allows attackers to create a connect-back client JAR file to run on a...

FBI Warns of New Twist to Reveton, Citadel Malware Scams

The cybercrime group behind the Citadel malware and Reveton ransomware has upped the stakes with a new extortion technique, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center said today. Reveton scams have now co-opted the Internet Crime Complaint Center with a new fake warning to users whose computers ha...

Citadel Trojan Updates with Dynamic Config Mechanism that Streamlines Fraud Activity

The elusive authors of the Citadel Trojan have released a new version of their banking botnet malware and service. The latest version, the sixth since it debuted in January and dubbed Rain, includes a dynamic configuration mechanism that allows botmasters to inject malicious content to compromise...

Optima DDOS 10a Botnet leaked on Underground Forums

Optima DDOS 10a botnet leaked on Underground Forums On underground forums "Optima DDOS 10a Botnet" full version posted for all to download and use. Complete new version of the acclaimed DDoS bot Optima Darkness. In this new version 10a according to the author was raised in secrecy bot system and...

Complete ZeuS source code has been leaked !

Complete ZeuS source code has been leaked On the 23rd of March 2011 we posted a blog about the source code for the infamous crime kit ZeuS Wsnpoem/Zbot being sold on at least two dark market forums see: https://www.csis.dk/en/csis/blog/3176/. This weekend we found the complete source code for thi...

Zeus Source Code Leaked

The source code to the infamous Zeus crimeware kit, which has been sold on underground forums for years, has been leaked and is now available for anyone to see if they know where to look. Security researchers over the weekend noticed that files that appeared to contain the source code for the Zeu...

Zeus/SpyEye Merger Promises More Sophisticated Bots

The recent merger of the Zeus and SpyEye botnets has created a mega-botnet that promises to increase the effectiveness, complexity, and prevalence of malware across the Web, according to a blog post by Francois Paget of McAfee Labs. The SpyEye/ZS Toolkit v1.4.1, the first evidence of a long-rumor...