Pony Botnet steals $220,000 from multiple Digital Wallets

Are you the one of the Digital Currency Holder? PONY is after You. A Group of cyber criminals has used hundreds of thousands of infected computers of the digital currency holders to filch approximately $220,000 worth of Bitcoins and other virtual currencies. The researchers at the security firm,...

Dexter (CasinoLoader) Panel - SQL Injection Exploit

Exploit for multiple platform in category web applications import pycurl import urllib import cStringIO import base64 import argparse import sys import string import pygeoip version = "0.1-httpbots-PoC" def PrintHelp: global version print "usage: dexter.PoC.py -h action gateway url" print "" prin...

Dexter (CasinoLoader) Panel - SQL Injection

Dexter CasinoLoader Panel - SQL Injection 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...

Bredo Banking Malware Campaign Targets Bank of America Customers

The Major US Financial institution, Bank of America is being targeted by a stealthy malicious financial malware campaign, according to AppRiver report. Last month the researchers at AppRiver has noticed enormous volumes of traffic through their data centers, with the peaks of traffic reaching thr...

GameOver Zeus Now Using Encryption to Bypass Detection

Cybercriminals have begun to tweak the way the GameOver Zeus Trojan is being delivered to users’ machines, making it easier for the banking malware to evade detection and steal victims’ credentials. To get the job done the malware has been working in tandem with the malware Upatre. For about a we...

Java-Bot, a Cross-platform malware launching DDoS attacks from infected computers

These days botnets are all over the news. In simple terms, a botnet is a group of computers networked together, running a piece of malicious software that allows them to be controlled by a remote attacker. A major target for most of the malware is still Windows, but the growing market of Mac OS X...

Malicious Java App is Cross-Platform Botnet

Java-related security issues have remained relatively quiet during the past few months, especially after a rocky start to 2013 seemingly had one Java flaw after another in the news. Things might be starting to ramp up again with the discovery of a cross-platform Java-based botnet. Researchers at...

Hasbro Serving Drive-By Download Malware Attack

Hasbro.com, a leading toy and game distributor in the United States, is infected and serving malware to visitors of the site. Researchers at Barracuda Networks said the site remained infected as of this morning and Hasbro has not responded to an email from the security firm disclosing the issue...

16 Million German Users' Data Compromised in mysterious Botnet Malware attack

A New day begins with a Cup of Coffee and with new massive Data Breach News. This time in Germany, the Digital identities of about 16 million online users had been stolen, and posing a risk to their accounts linked to social media and other services. Federal Office for Information Security BSI...

Cutwail-Like Wigon.PH_44 Trojan Sends Spam, Steals Data

A new spambot has been discovered that generates copious amounts of HTTP POST and GET requests in an attempt to disguise what it’s really up to and throw off the scent of detection capabilities. “In this case, it seems like it’s trying to hide impactful communication where there are actual payloa...

Microsoft remotely deleted Tor-based 'Sefnit Botnet' from more than 2 Million Systems

In October 2013, Microsoft adopted a silent, offensive method to tackle infection due to a Tor-based botnet malware called 'Sefnit'. In an effort to takedown of the Sefnit botnet to protect windows users, Microsoft remotely removes the older versions of installed Tor Browser software and infectio...

Mariposa Botnet

Overview ICS-CERT has received reports and investigated infections of the MariposaDefence Intelligence, http://defintel.com/docs/MariposaAnalysis.pdf, website last accessed March 15, 2010. botnet, which have affected the business networks of multiple control system owners in recent months. ICS-CE...

100,000 Refrigerators and other home appliances hacked to perform cyber attack

Have you given shed to Zombies in your house? No???? May be you have no idea about it. After Computers, Servers, Routers, Mobiles, Tablets…. Now its turn of your home appliances to be a weapon or a victim of cyber war. Recently Security Researchers from Proofpoint found more than 100,000 Smart TV...

Cyber criminals targeting another cryptocurrency 'Primecoin' with malicious miners

Like Bitcoin, There are numerous other cryptocurrency similar in nature, including MasterCoin, ProtoShares, Litecoin, Peercoin, BitBar and many more. One of them is Primecoin sign: Ψ; code: XPM, a peer-to-peer open source cryptocurrency that implements a scientific computing proof-of-work system...

Yahoo Removes Ads Redirecting to Magnitude Exploit Kit

The race to replace the Blackhole Exploit Kit as the web exploit pack of choice for cybercriminals seems to have an early leader in Magnitude. Researchers at Dutch security firm Fox-IT reported over the weekend that European visitors to Yahoo were falling victim to malicious ads hosted on the sit...

Microsoft Says ZeroAccess Click-Fraud Botnet Abandoned

Microsoft is declaring the ZeroAccess botnet dead. Two weeks after obtaining a court order to disrupt the botnet’s ability to carry out click-fraud, assistant general counsel Richard Boscovich of Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit said late last week that the botmasters behind ZeroAccess had abandon...

Cutwail Spam Botnet Feels Effect of Blackhole Takedown

The arrest of alleged hacker Paunch and the subsequent dismantling of the Blackhole Exploit Kit operation has cybercrime groups scrambling to find another automated means of delivering exploits. In the meantime, some are settling for old-school tactics that include infected email attachments and ...

Trojan.Ferret DDoS Botnet Discovered

Researchers at Arbor Networks have identified a new DDoS bot with a fancy for ferrets. Following a clue in a tweet, researcher Dennis Schwarz found Trojan.Ferret, including a command and control panel with some insight into targets. To date, a relatively small number of malware samples and comman...

Chewbacca Tor-Based Malware Steals Keystrokes

The Tor network may provide a lead-lined cover for Internet users seeking a measure of privacy online, but it also has proven to be an attractive shelter for attackers. A number of malware campaigns have been able to successfully maneuver on Tor, using the anonymity network as a communication...

Firefox Botnet Searches for Sites Prone to SQL injection

Attackers have been automating SQL injection attacks for a number of years, but in a fairly new twist, a botnet masquerading as a Firefox browser add-on is carrying out attacks on sites visited by compromised computers. Krebs on Security reported today that the Advanced Power botnet has been...