Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Online Banking Software Update Email Messages on July 19, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30151 First Published: 2013 July 19 17:47 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an online banking software security update for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Banking News Report Email Messages on June 28, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29839 First Published: 2013 June 28 16:06 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a commentary from RBS for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Banking Account Information Email Messages on December 4, 2013

Low Alert ID: 29732 First Published: 2013 June 20 14:04 GMT Last Updated: 2013 December 6 18:22 GMT Version: 9 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a banking account information notification for the recipient. The text in th...

CareerBuilder man in the browser attack

No one can say that hackers don’t have a sense of irony. In search of money mules, attackers behind a variant of the Zeus Trojan have configured the malware to activate when users visit careerbuilder.com with code that redirects victims to an advertisement for a mule-recruitment website...

FBI seized Citadel banking Trojan servers

Microsoft and the FBI have taken down a botnet that controlled millions of infected PCs, which was responsible for massive bank fraud. Botnets are networks of computers infected with viruses that let them be controlled by hackers. The outfit runs the Citadel Botnets and is believed to have stolen...

FBI seized Citadel banking Trojan servers

Microsoft and the FBI have taken down a botnet that controlled millions of infected PCs, which was responsible for massive bank fraud. Botnets are networks of computers infected with viruses that let them be controlled by hackers. The outfit runs the Citadel Botnets and is believed to have stolen...

Two-Factor Authentication Options for Web Services

LinkedIn is the latest in a long line of high profile Internet services companies to offer two-factor authentication to its user base, joining Twitter, Evernote, Gmail and myriad others. And much like those other services, the move to a stronger form authentication is a reactionary one, coming on...

KRBanker Malware Targeting Korean Financial Institutions

A recently discovered piece of malware called KRBanker Korea + Banker = KRBanker , targeting mostly online end-users at Korean financial institutions. According to nProtect, now an invasive banking Trojan, the new and improved KRBanker can block anti-virus software, security websites and even oth...

Massive 167Gbps DDoS attacks against Banking and Financial Institutions

DDoS attackers attempted to bring down an Banking services earlier this week using one of the largest Distributed denial of service attack using DNS reflection technique. Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service DDoS protection services, announced that it has successfully...

Massive 167Gbps DDoS attacks against Banking and Financial Institutions

DDoS attackers attempted to bring down an Banking services earlier this week using one of the largest Distributed denial of service attack using DNS reflection technique. Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service DDoS protection services, announced that it has successfully...

Beta Bot Trojan Emerges as New Type of Banking Malware

A new strain of banking malware, Beta Bot, has been refined over the last few months to target ecommerce and comes complete with an array of features to help prevent it from being caught by usual security measures. According to research conducted by RSA Security’s Limor Kessem, the bot started ou...

Citadel Banking Malware Targets Payza Payment Service

A new variant of Citadel malware is making the rounds that is targeting Payza, a money transfer service popular all over the world, especially in developing nations that are under-serviced when it comes to accessing the Internet. The payment processing company bills itself as “your money’s gatewa...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

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...

CMS Cameron McKenna 2013 Cross Site Scripting Vunlerability

CMS Cameron McKenna 2013 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. The vendor has been notified of this issue. Note that this advisory has site-specific information. Product: CMS Cameron McKenna Web:http://www.cms-cmck.com Versions: CMS 2013 Date: 25/04/2013 Vendor Notified: 24/04 - 25/0...

Twitter Malware spotted in the wild stealing banking credentials

Trusteer researcher Tanya Shafir has recently identified an active configuration of TorRAT targeting Twitter users. Other than spreading ideas on the most popular social networks, now cyber criminals are spreading malware. The malware launches a Man-in-the-Browser MitB attack through the browser ...

Russian Police, Cybersecurity Company Arrest Cybercriminal

If you’ve ever sat in on a cybersecurity hearing on Capitol Hill or attended a security conference , then you’re no doubt familiar with the oft-preached need for information sharing and private-public partnerships. So frequently repeated are these refrains that they’re almost as meaningless as th...

CVE-2013-2379

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Software 2.8.0 through 12.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to RT...

CVE-2013-2386

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Software 2.8.0 through 4.1.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity and availability via vectors related to BASE...