Massive cyber attack on South Korean banks and TV broadcasters

Computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters crashed simultaneously Wednesday, during a Massive cyber attack. South Korean police investigating reports from several major broadcasters and banks. least three broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN and the Shinhan and Nonghyu banks...

HDFC Bank website vulnerable to ID Theft and Account Blockade

Indian Security Researcher Jiten Jain from Xebia Architects today revealed that one of the Largest Private Banks in India, HDFC Bank’s e-Banking website could be easy target of Unique type of Denial of Service Attack which could result in blocking of e-banking accounts of all its customers. Here ...

Threats and Market Share Increase for Android, Decrease for Symbian

No real surprise that F-Secure’s fourth quarter threat report further accentuated the all-but-definite-reality that there is a direct correlation between a platform’s market share and the volume of threats targeting it. “As its market share declines,“ F-Secure researchers reasoned, “so does malwa...

Fake Google Play Accounts Peddling Banking Malware

On the one year anniversary of Google Play comes news that a new botkit is making the rounds that leverages actual verified accounts from that marketplace to trick users into downloading phony banking applications. Brian Krebs, who goes into further detail about the malware in a post on his blog...

Privacy of Millions of HTC devices at risk

More than 18 million smartphones and other mobile devices made by HTC are at risk vulnerable to many security and privacy issue. The Federal Trade Commission charged HTC with customizing the software on its Android- and Windows based phones in ways that let third-party applications install softwa...

NBC Website Hacked, Leading Visitors to Citadel Banking Malware

Another day, another media company hacked. This time it’s NBC which has fallen to victim hackers on the heels of compromises of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal websites. Various experts have confirmed that NBC’s website is compromised and leading visitors to the dangerous Citadel banki...

Zeus banking Trojan targeting five major banks in Japan

Zeus continues to strike online bank accounts and users, and technology designed to thwart these Trojan attacks continually fails to keep up. Symantec recently came across a new Zeus file targeting five major banks in Japan. The malware, which has caused serious problems to banking customers in...

Zeus banking Trojan targeting five major banks in Japan

Zeus continues to strike online bank accounts and users, and technology designed to thwart these Trojan attacks continually fails to keep up. Symantec recently came across a new Zeus file targeting five major banks in Japan. The malware, which has caused serious problems to banking customers in...

Predictive Security Analytics Tool Available Free to Researchers

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Dan Hubbard has lately been a regular face at a lot of big data meet-ups. He’s also often been the lone security face at these meet-ups, which are dominated by analytics, search, social media and advertising professionals. That may change soon for the CTO of DNS and securi...

God Horses are Floating Clouds: The Story of a Chinese Banker Trojan

Dong Yan In China these days, e-commerce has become an important part of daily life, especially among young people. According to a report from CNNIC China Internet Network Information Center, the number of Chinese e-commerce users reached 242 million at the end of the December 2012. This is nearl...

Russian Hackers Behind Gozi Malware charged for Infecting Millions users

The mastermind Russian Hackers who coded and distributed the Gozi malware, Nikita Vladimirovich Kuzmin, 25 was charged along with Deniss Calovskis, 27, and Mihai Ionut Paunescu, 28 for infecting more than a million computers worldwide in order to steal banking and other credentials from tens of...

Three Charged with Creating, Distributing Gozi Banking Malware

Charges will be brought today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against three men allegedly involved with creating and distributing the Gozi banking Trojan. Gozi infected more than a million computers worldwide, including a handful at NASA, leading to tens of millio...

Shylock banking malware spreads via Skype

The banking Trojan known as Shylock has been updated with new functionality, including the ability to spread over Skype. The program was discovered in 2011 that steals online banking credentials and other financial information from infected computers. Shylock, named after a character from...

Researchers Deconstruct Pobelka Botnet

How many inconspicuous botnets are alive and siphoning banking credentials and real money from online accounts that get little to no attention? They feast on unwitting consumers using an array of available banking Trojans to steal legitimate log-in information and sell it to the highest bidder,...

Shylock banking malware spreads via Skype

The banking Trojan known as Shylock has been updated with new functionality, including the ability to spread over Skype. The program was discovered in 2011 that steals online banking credentials and other financial information from infected computers. Shylock, named after a character from...

Precision Bouncer List Phishing Kits Keep Targets Inside the Ropes

Just when you thought phishers had exhausted all avenues of innovation, a new tactic has emerged in attacks against financial institutions bringing the level of targeting and geo-filtering to precise new levels. Dubbed bouncer list phishing by RSA Security, these attack kits are built off stolen...

Attackers Using Fake Chrome Updates to Lure Victims

Google patched nearly two dozen security vulnerabilities in Chrome on Thursday and a day later attackers have begun circulating fake Google Chrome updates that actually are part of a scam related to the Zeus botnet and is designed to steal online banking credentials, among other things. Attackers...

Arrested 'Happy Hacker' is the ZeuS Botnet Mastermind

Last week, Happy Hacker arrested in Thailand on charges of stealing millions from online bank accounts. According to new reports same hacker alleged as ZeuS Mastermind and used to have the profile of a miscreant nicknamed “bx1,” a hacker fingered by Microsoft before as a major operator of botnets...

Google, Paypal, Facebook Internal IP disclosure vulnerability

Do you have any idea about an Internal IP Address or a Private IP Address that too assigned for Multinational Companies? Yeah, today we are gonna discuss about Internal IP or Private IP address Disclosure. Disclosure of an Internal IP like 192.168.. or 172.16.. , can really Impact ? Most security...

New Apache Exploit Doling Out Zeus, Sweet Orange Exploit Kit

UPDATE – A new Apache module, Linux/Chapro.A, is making the rounds, injecting malicious content including a popular Zeus variant into web pages. The module was discussed in a blog on ESET’s Threat Blog by the company’s Security intelligence Program Manager, Pierre-Marc Bureau. According to the...