Terror Exploit Kit Evolves Into Larger Threat

The relatively new Terror exploit kit is bucking the downward trend in the EK market, and is steadily evolving into more of a threat. Researchers at Cisco Talos said Terror has abandoned an early strategy that included “carpet-bombing” a target’s browser to one that now uses exploits that precise...

IBM Opens Attack Simulation Test Center

CAMBRIDGE, Ma. – IBM cut the ribbon on its new global security headquarters Wednesday that will also serve as command center for its just announced X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services. The centerpiece of the new 153,000-sqft facility is the company’s Cyber Range which IBM bills as...

NTP Amplification DDoS Attacks Increasing

An ever-shrinking number of vulnerable network time protocol NTP servers are being used with customized distributed denial of service DDoS toolkits to perform increasingly potent NTP amplification attacks. According to the DDoS mitigation specialists at Prolexic, who issued a high alert DDoS atta...

More Flame Modules Could Be Lurking

BROOKLYN, NY–After years of research and investigation into the cyber-espionage attacks that began with the discovery of Stuxnet and continued with Flame, Duqu and Gauss, there still are many details that are unknown. While researchers have a pretty good handle on many of the tools’ capabilities,...

DarkComet RAT Flames Out

The author of DarkComet, one of the more notorious remote administration tools in use today, has said that he is ending development and sales of the tool after finding out that DarkComet was used by the Syrian government in attacks against anti-government activists. DarkComet is one of a handful ...

Why Isn't Cybercrime Worse?

Bank robbers have a clear motivation for their crimes: money. It’s there for the taking; all you have to do is get to it. But there are a lot of inherent risks involved with robbing banks, and, as a new study shows, not a great deal of return. And yet people keep robbing banks. In cybercrime, the...

What Have We Learned: Flame Malware

When the news about the Flame malware first broke several weeks ago, people from all parts of the security community, political world and elsewhere quickly began trying to figure out what the significance of the tool was and whether it represented anything new. That was difficult at the time, giv...

Flame Malware Raises Need for Open Talk on Use of Cyberweapons

The discovery of the Flame malware has raised a number of questions, some mundane, some interesting and many unanswerable at this point. But the point that’s most interesting also is the one that likely will go unaddressed for the foreseeable future, and that is, the need for a serious, open...

Where To Buy Your Tools From Hackers ?

Software that facilitates the attack by beginners online scammers and the future is big business anarchists, says Karlin Lillington The suites are equipped with new software with all the trappings of modern software now offers: cloud computing hosting, software as a service SaaS functions,...

CVE-2000-0138

A system has a distributed denial of service DDOS attack master, agent, or zombie installed, such as 1 Trinoo, 2 Tribe Flood Network TFN, 3 Tribe Flood Network 2000 TFN2K, 4 stacheldraht, 5 mstream, or 6 shaft...