Zeus Variant 'Floki Bot' Targets PoS Data

Researchers have observed an uptick in attacks using the banking malware Floki Bot against U.S., Canadian and Brazilian banks, and insurance firms. Floki Bot, which uses code from the once notorious Zeus banking Trojan, has evolved and unlike its predecessor, is targeting point-of-sale systems vi...

Creators of SpyEye Virus Sentenced to 24 Years in Prison

In Brief Two International hackers, Aleksandr Andreevich Panin and Hamza Bendelladj, have been sentenced to a combined 24 years and 6 months in prison for their roles in developing and distributing SpyEye banking trojan, a powerful botnet similar to the infamous ZeuS malware. Both hackers were...

ZeuS Banking Trojan Resurfaces As Atmos Variant

Old nemeses die hard, especially when you’re banking malware named ZeuS. According to Denmark-based Heimdal Security, the potent 9-year-old malware ZeuS has morphed into the up-and-coming Atmos malware – now targeting banks in France. Researchers are warning that the criminals behind Atmos have...

Slots™ Zeus Myth Slot Machines - Base64 encoded String, Customized SSL, Exported ContentProvider vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Slots™ Zeus Myth Slot Machines published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Zeus Pokies™ Free Casino Slots - Customized SSL, Hardcoded secrets, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Zeus Pokies™ Free Casino Slots published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Slots Zeus Riches Casino Slots - Customized SSL, Exported ContentProvider, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Slots Zeus Riches Casino Slots published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Slots: Zeus Slot Machines - Customized SSL, Exported ContentProvider, GPL license vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Slots: Zeus Slot Machines published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

GM Bot Banking Malware Source Code Leak

Source code for the potent Android malware GM Bot has been leaked to underground forums, according to IBM security experts. The impact, IBM X-Force threat intelligence says, will be an uptick in GM Bot variants and the number of attacks targeting financial applications on Android-based devices...

CoreBot Adds New Capabilities, Transitions to Banking Trojan

As researchers expected it would, CoreBot, the credential-stealing malware that surfaced last month, has added a bevy of new capabilities and reinvented itself as a robust banking Trojan. Researchers said the malware shares more similarities with Dyre, another high profile banking Trojan, than a...

Malware And Hacking Forum Seized, Dozens Arrested

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 70 people suspected of carrying out cyber criminal activities associated with one of the most active underground web forums known as Darkode. Darkode, also used by notorious Lizard Squad, was an online bazaar for cyber criminals...

These Are The FBI's Most Wanted Hackers — Total $4.2 Million Reward

The US State Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are willing to pay a total $4.2 Million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of top 5 most wanted cyber criminals accused of conducting frauds of hundreds of millions of dollars. Evgeniy Bogachev,30; Nicolae Popesc...

Five Arrested in Zeus, SpyEye Takedown

Authorities in six different countries worked together to take down a cybercrime ring which ultimately infected tens of thousands of computers with Zeus and SpyEye malware and made off with roughly $2.25 million from banks in the process. Europol and Eurojust joined forces to take down the group,...

Europol Arrests Gang Behind Zeus And SpyEye Banking Malware

The Law enforcement agencies from six different European countries have taken down a major Ukrainian-based cyber criminals gang suspected of developing, distributing and deploying Zeus and SpyEye banking malware. According to the report on the official website of Europol, authorities have arreste...

FBI Says Cryptowall Cost Victims $18 Million Since 2014

In a little more than a year, consumers affected by the Cryptowall ransomware have reported to the FBI more than $18 million in losses related to infections from the malware. Cryptowall is among the group of ransomware families that encrypt the files on victims’ computers and then demands a ranso...

Attackers Peddling Malware Through CareerBuilder

Attackers have recently taken to the job-search website CareerBuilder to spread Microsoft Word documents that appear to be job hopefuls’ resumes, but in reality, are laden with malware. Researchers at the firm Proofpoint discovered the campaign and discussed their findings in a blog post. In the...

New "PoSeidon" Point of Sale Malware Spotted in the Wild

A new and terribly awful breed of Point-of-Sale POS malware has been spotted in the wild by the security researchers at Cisco's Talos Security Intelligence & Research Group that the team says is more sophisticated and nasty than previously seen Point of Sale malware. The Point-of-Sale malware,...

Dridex Campaign Evades Detection with AutoClose Function

Pushers of the Dridex banking malware have gone old-school for some time now, moving the malware through phishing messages executed by macros in Microsoft Office documents. While macros are disabled by default since the release of Office 2007, the malware includes somewhat convincing social...

Obama Administration Seeks More Legal Power to Disrupt Botnets

The federal government is seeking more legal power to step in and shut down botnets through an amendment to the existing criminal law, which would allow the Department of Justice to obtain injunctions to disrupt these malicious networks. The Obama administration has proposed an amendment to...

Dridex Banking Trojan Spreading Via Macros in XML Files

Not long ago, criminals pushing the Dridex banking Trojan were using Microsoft Excel documents spiked with a malicious macro as a phishing lure to entice victims to load the malware onto their machines. Even though macros are disabled by default inside most organizations, the persistent hackers a...

Ransomware Looming As Major Long-Term Threat

On May 30, 2014, law enforcement officials from the FBI and Europol seized a series of servers that were being used to help operate the GameOver Zeus botnet, an especially pernicious and troublesome piece of malware. The authorities also began an international manhunt for a Russian man they said...