Qakbot Virus Causes Possible Data Breach at Mass. Agencies

An untold number of computers at the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and Department of Career Services were compromised in April, leading state officials to warn hundreds of thousands of people that their personal information may have been stolen as part of the attack. However...

Finnish Police Arrest 17 in Online Banking Scam

Finnish law enforcement officials arrested seventeen individuals in connection with an attack against Nordea Finland’s online banking services that took place in early 2010, according to a report from Softpedia. The group allegedly used a variant of the Gozi Trojan, also known as Papras, to pilfe...

White House Cyber-Security Strategy Could Guard Health Care Payments !

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace aims to help consumers pay for services such as health care more securely and avoid identity theft. Recent guidelines issued by the White House on cyber-security could provide an impetus for secure online bill paying in health care,...

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...

Netherlands-based Rabobank down under DDoS attack !

Netherlands-based Rabobank down under DDoS attack ! The internet and mobile banking services of Netherlands-based Rabobank were crippled by a distributed denial of service attack yesterday. The attack sent the banking services offline but did not affect Australian operations, according to the ban...

The Underground Economy: SMS Fraud

The underground malware economy has expanded and diversified in recent years and the latest frontier is the mobile platform. In this video, Kaspersky Lab’s Denis Maslennikov talks about the ways that attackers use premium-rate SMS messages and banking fraud to bilk users...

The Banker Trojan Epidemic

Banking Trojans have become a major security problem in many regions, particularly South America and Europe. In this video, Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Vicente Diaz discusses the epidemic and what can be done to mitigate it...

Mobile Application Security – The New Frontier

The power and popularity of consumer mobile computing is changing faster then you can say iFart the 1 downloaded app worldwide. Commercial entities are rapidly adopting mobile-based applications for retail sales floors, restaurants and dining rooms, distributed mobile banking, and more...

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download !

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download ! HES aims at anticipating the challenges of the security world and gathers together underground or amateur security researchers together with professional security expert researchers and technical decision makers. During three days, HES will...

Banking Fraud Now Almost Exclusively Occurring Online

A new study of small to mid-sized businesses shows that 75% of banking fraud is now taking place online according to a report from InformationWeek. The 2011 Business Banking Trust Study, commissioned by Guardian Analytics and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, found that 56% of the companies in...

Cyber Attacks Hit Nearly 40 South Korean websites !

According to a new report, 40 South Korean websites came under a cyber crime attack by a computer virus, including the presidential Blue House, South Korea's biggest bank , a major online auction house, the Foreign Ministry, the two largest search engines in the country and Korean military websit...

New banking trojan capable of hijacking the SSL connections !

Security researchers from Symantec warn of a new banking trojan capable of hijacking the SSL connections between browsers and online banking sites in a way that is hard to spot. Variants of this malware, which Symantec detects as Trojan.Tatanarg, have been in circulation since last October, but i...

Irish Banking Fraud Ring Uncovered

A Moldovan man alleged to be the mastermind behind an international fraud ring that targeted both private and corporate bank accounts has been arrested in Limerick, Ireland, in a joint operation by Gardai and customs officials. According to a report in the Irish Independent, this operation was...

New Phishing Scam Targets PayPal Users

Customers of Internet money transfer service PayPal are being targeted in an aggressive email phishing scam that is masquerading as an urgent security warning, a familiar scam for PayPal customers. Users of PayPal are receiving an email message from them that claims to be an urgent security...

OddJob Trojan Piggybacks On Legitimate eBanking Sessions

A new Trojan leads online banking customer into thinking they have logged out of their sessions when in fact they remain logged in. Discovered by Trusteer researchers, this completely new piece of malware represents the evolution of online attacks in the ways in which it integrates new and old...

Windows Loses Hacker Star Status In Next Decade

The next decade will see Microsoft lose its grip as the most-used and most attacked platform, as a new generation of hackers and cybercriminals diversify, launching attacks on a growing population of mobile devices and computers that run operating systems other than Windows, according to Kaspersk...

Online security losing cyber battle !

THE internet was never meant to do sensitive banking transactions, cyber criminals are winning the war against online security and Australia's easy going nature is making us vulnerable targets to ever-more sophisticated internet thugs. That was San Francisco-based internet security watcher and...

Google Adds Two-Factor Verification to Gmail

Google has introduced a new two-step authentication feature for Gmail users that it says will significantly increase the security of the free mail service. The system enables users to set up a method for obtaining a secret code that will be required, along with a password, to access a Gmail...

PandaLabs Uncovers the Cyber-Crime Black Market

Inventory is growing and prices are dropping on the cyber crime black market, according to a new report from security firm Panda Labs. Stolen banking credentials, malicious programs and stolen credit cards are all for sale online in what Panda experts say is a flourishing criminal black market...