Malicious Ads on Yahoo, AOL, Trigger CryptoWall Infections

Attackers have been leveraging the FlashPack Exploit Kit to peddle the CryptoWall 2.0 ransomware on unsuspecting visitors to sites such as Yahoo, The Atlantic and AOL. Researchers believe that for about a month the malvertising campaign hit up to 3 million visitors and netted the attackers $25,00...

New Signed Version of CryptoWall Ransomware On the Loose

UPDATE–Researchers have discovered a variant of the CryptoWall ransomware that has a valid digital signature and is being distributed through malicious ads on several top-ranked Alexa Web sites. CryptoWall is one of the more successful ransomware strains in recent memory, with researchers...

Threatglass Tool Gives Deep Look Inside Compromised Sites

Trying to enumerate the compromised sites on the Internet is a Sisyphian task. Luckily, it’s not a task that anyone really needs to perform any longer, especially now that Barracuda Labs has released its new Threatglass tool, a Web-based frontend that allows users to query a massive database of...

Extension Spam in Google Chrome Web Store

UPDATE: Twelve seemingly legitimate Chrome browser extensions installed by more than 180,000 users are injecting advertisements on 44 popular websites. According to a Barracuda Labs report, the extensions can be found in the official Chrome Web Store. They advertise themselves and operate as game...

Cracked.com Compromised, Serving Malware

The popular humor website, Crackeddotcom reportedly hosted malware that infected the machines of its visitors over the weekend and may still be doing so, according to Barracuda Labs research. The malware proliferated via drive-by-downloads, and it is not known how many systems became infected as ...

Exploiting the Twitter Underground for Fun and Profit

The underground economy on Twitter is still flourishing, and it appears to be a buyer’s market for followers right now, with new research showing that the price for 1,000 followers has dropped nearly 50 percent in the last few months. Barracuda Labs has been tracking the volume of fake accounts o...

How I Got Here: Paul Judge

Dennis Fisher talks with Paul Judge, the CTO of Barracuda Labs, about his roots in the security industry, his near-miss with organic chemistry, the start-up and security community in Atlanta and what his next venture might be. Download: 03pauljudge.mp3...

Amnesty International Website Compromised, Serving Up Gh0st RAT

Amnesty International’s United Kingdom website was compromised and hosting the potent Gh0st RAT Trojan earlier this week, according to research conducted by security firm Websense. According to the company’s Security Labs blog, visitors to the site over two days this week, May 8 and 9, may have h...

In Possible Targeted Attack, Amnesty International Web Site Found Serving Malware

Amnesty International’s United Kingdom website was compromised late last week and was being used to exploit a known Java runtime environment hole on machines belonging to unwitting visitors to the site, according to Barracuda Labs researcher, Paul Royal. Citing historical data, Royal claims that...