New GameOver Zeus Botnet Malware Variant Surfaces

The GameOver Zeus takedown was trumpeted as a victory against cybercrime, and for all its success, even those involved understood it was likely a temporary win. Researchers at Seculert have spotted a new variant of GameOver Zeus that has spurned previous versions’ peer-to-peer communication...

Mayhem — A New Malware Targets Linux and FreeBSD Web Servers

Security researchers from Russian Internet giant Yandex have discovered a new piece of malware that is being used to target Linux and FreeBSD web servers in order to make them a part of the wide botnet, even without the need of any root privileges. Researchers dubbed the malware as Mayhem, a nast...

Onion Ransomware Demands Bitcoins, Uses Tor, Advanced Encryption

More details about a new family of encryption ransomware that uses the anonymous network Tor and requires users pay by Bitcoin have emerged. The ransomware, known in some circles as Critoni or CTB-Locker, has been dubbed Onion by researchers at Kaspersky Lab as its creators use command and contro...

CryptoLocker Infections Continue as New Rasomware Evolves

U.S. and European law enforcement officials last month, performed a coordinated takedown of the GameOver Zeus botnet. At the time, they claimed that the operation also neutralized the infamous CryptoLocker ransomware, which criminals had distributed using GameOver’s infrastructure. However, Tyler...

New Pushdo Malware Hacks 11,000 Computers in Just 24 Hours

One of the oldest active malware families, Pushdo, is again making its way onto the Internet and has recently infected more than 11,000 computers in just 24 hours. Pushdo, a multipurpose Trojan, is primarily known for delivering financial malware such as ZeuS and SpyEye onto infected computers or...

SSL Black List Aims to Publicize Certificates Associated With Malware

Malware and botnet operators are always adapting their tactics, trying to stay a step or two ahead of defensive technologies and techniques. One of the methods many attackers have adopted is using SSL to communicate with the infected machines they control, and a researcher has started a new...

After Takedown, GameOver Zeus Banking Trojan Returns Again

A month after the FBI and Europol took down the GameOver Zeus botnet by seizing servers and disrupting the botnet’s operation, security researchers have unearthed a new variant of malware based explicitly on the same Gameover ZeuS that compromised users’ computers and collectively formed a massiv...

Possible New Version of GameOver Zeus Malware Emerges

It’s only been a little more than a month since the FBI and Europol took down the GameOver Zeus botnet, taking control of its command-and-control infrastructure and effectively cutting off the malware’s head. But researchers say that there are some indications that a new strain of the malware may...

Tinba Banker Trojan Source Code Posted

The source code for Tinba, known as the smallest banker Trojan in circulation, has been posted on an underground forum. Researchers say that the files turned out to be the source code for version one of Tinba, which was identified in 2012, and is the original, privately sold version of the...

Brute-Forcing Botnet Sniffs Out Lax POS Systems

Over a two-week time span earlier this year, a botnet composed of thousands of computers actively sought out and broke into exposed point of sale POS systems that used poor or default passwords. The botnet, dug up and dubbed BrutPOS by security firm FireEye, leveraged more than 5,000 machines and...

DHS Releases Hundreds of Documents on Wrong Project Aurora

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request for information about the Operation Aurora attack on Google and other organizations in 2009 the Department of Homeland Security released hundreds of pages of documents related not to that attack campaign, but to the Aurora project run at Idaho...

Facebook Carries Out Lecpetex Botnet Takedown

Facebook has moved slowly and deliberately into the realm of botnet takedowns by disrupting a relatively small operation in Greece that was using the social platform to spread spam and malware. Two arrests were made in connection with the Lecpetex botnet in Greece on July 3. The alleged botmaster...

Facebook Takes Down Bitcoin Stealing Botnet that Infected 250,000 Computers

Once again Facebook is on The Hacker News! This time not for any scam or surveillance, but for a different reason. The social networking giant has managed to take down a Greek botnet that used Facebook to spread malware and infected 250,000 computers to mine crypto-currencies, steal bitcoins, ema...

Microsoft Says 'Technical Error' Led to Legitimate No-IP Customers Losing Service

In the course of its actions to take down a major malware operation, Microsoft seized more than 20 domains from No-IP.com, a hosting provider in Nevada. Microsoft now admits that the company made a technical mistake as part of that takedown, an errors that resulted in legitimate No-IP.com custome...

New Cridex Banking Trojan variant Surfaces with Self-Spreading Functionality

In an effort to infect large number of people, cybercriminals have developed a new malicious software program that contains functionality to spread itself quickly. Geodo, a new version of the infamous Cridex also known as Feodo or Bugat banking information stealing Trojan works in conjunction wit...

vOlk Botnet Framework 4.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Title: ====== vOlk Botnet Framework v4.0 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities Date: ===== 2012-10-09 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=721 VL-ID: ===== 721 Common Vulnerability Scoring System: ==================================...

Dexter (CasinoLoader) Panel - SQL Injection

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: Dexter CasinoLoader Panel SQLi Date: Feb, 13, 2014 Exploit Author: Brian Wallace @botnethunter Version: CasinoLoader Tested on: Windows 7, Ubuntu, Debian import pycurl import urllib import cStringIO import base64 import argparse import sys import...

Cythosia 2.x Botnet - SQL Injection Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: Cythosia Botnet SQL-Injection Vulnerability Date: 11.12.2013 Exploit Author: GalaxyAndroid Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Application Screenshots http://www.xylibox.com/2012/08/cythosia-botnet-vnloader.html Version: 2.x Tested on: Windows 7 with Xampp...

DNS Flood DDoS Attack Hit Video Gaming Industry with 90 Million Requests per Second

Hackers are leveraging large number of compromised machines a botnet network to carry out massive DNS Flood DDoS attack against a large Video Gaming Industry website, peaking above 110 Gbps. A US based security solutions provider Incapsula, is protecting a famous Video Gaming website from this hi...

Asprox Malware Borrowing Stealth from APT Campaigns

Cybercriminals and advanced attackers are freely borrowing from one another’s repertoires to great success. The latest example involves spammers firing off up to a half-million email messages during limited campaign segments without triggering any detection alarms. Security company FireEye said t...