Android Trojan Apps Build SMS Botnet

A rudimentary, SMS-based botnet is ensnaring Android users into its web with a series of text messages offering free downloads for popular, paid gaming applications, according to Cloudmark researcher Andrew Conway. The Trojan applications are reportedly mimicking games such as The Need for Speed...

Facebook Helps FBI to shuts down Butterfly botnet theft $850 millions

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday that they've arrested 10 suspects from from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States involved in a global botnet operation that infected more than 11 million systems. The ring is said to...

Facebook Security, FBI Take Down Butterfly Botnet, Arrest 10

Facebook’s security team is being lauded by the FBI for its role the arrest of 10 individuals accused of spreading banking malware on the social networking site and collecting more than $850 million from fraudulent transactions. The arrests were carried out yesterday in the U.S., U.K., the Balkan...

Facebook Helps FBI to shuts down Butterfly botnet theft $850 millions

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday that they’ve arrested 10 suspects from from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States involved in a global botnet operation that infected more than 11 million systems. The ring is said to...

Tor-Powered Botnet Linked to Malware Coder's AMA on Reddit

In the process of analyzing a seemingly new and fairly small botnet called Skynet, Rapid7 security researchers determined that this was precisely the same network described by its creator in a particularly bold ‘Ask Me Anything’ AMA on the social news site Reddit earlier this year. Claudio...

Kelihos Update Includes New TLD and USB Infection Capabilities

There’s a little Michael Myers in the Kelihos botnet; maim it, kill it and it keeps on coming back to wreak more havoc. The 2011 takedown of the Kelihos botnet was one of Microsoft’s high-profile success stories against spambots and the like, yet Kelihos was back for more at the start of 2012 usi...

Malware called 'Eurograbber' steals 36 million Euros

A new version of the Zeus botnet was used to steal about $47 million from European banking customers in the past year. This Zeus variant Trojan is blamed for attacks that stole more than 36 million Euros $47 million U.S. dollars from an estimated 30,000 consumer and corporate accounts at European...

Malware called 'Eurograbber' steals 36 million Euros

A new version of the Zeus botnet was used to steal about $47 million from European banking customers in the past year. This Zeus variant Trojan is blamed for attacks that stole more than 36 million Euros $47 million U.S. dollars from an estimated 30,000 consumer and corporate accounts at European...

Gameover Zeus Variant Sends Malicious Email Via Cutwail Botnet

The crew responsible for operating the Gameover variant of the infamous Zeus banking trojan is soliciting the enormous Cutwail botnet’s spamming capacity as an engine to fire off millions of malicious emails that seemingly originate from a number of recognizable U.S. banks. The fraudulent emails...

Russian Underground Cybercrime market offering sophisticated services

Security firm Trend Micro recent analyses the Russian crimeware markets and has found that malware tools and services range from one-time packages which cost just pennies to sophisticated packages and services which cost purchasers thousands of dollars per month. If you want to buy a botnet it wi...

Researchers caught espionage malware mastermind on webcam

In march 2011 CERT-Georgia has Discovered Cyber Espionage Attack Incident on country of Georgia. Advanced Malicious Software was Collecting Sensitive, Confidential Information about Georgian and American Security Documents and then uploading it to some of Command and Control Servers. After a...

Operation High Roller Banked on Fast-Flux Botnet to Steal Millions

A fraud ring that attacked financial transfer systems in an attempt to get at wealthy high-end banking customers used a complicated web of malware and compromised servers in several countries to walk off with an estimated $78 million earlier this year. While the attacks targeted financial systems...

Nitol Infections Fall, But Malware Still Popping Up

When Microsoft went after the Nitol botnet in September, one of the key details in the investigation was the fact that much of the botnet was built by pre-loading malware onto laptops during the manufacturing process in China. This was the clearest case yet of the phenomenon of certified pre-owne...

vOlk Botnet Framework v4.0 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities

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: ==================================== 8.3 Introduction: =============...

DarkBot Malware Circulation very fast via Skype

Two weeks back we reported that Security firm Trend Micro discovered a worm targeting Skype users with spam messages designed to infect machines with the Dorkbot ransomware has been discovered. This malware is spreading through a question/ phrase sent to the users by someone and the question is:...

Microsoft Settles With Kelihos Botnet Defendant, Says He Didn't Run the Network

Microsoft on Friday said it has reached a settlement with a Russian programmer it named as a defendant in a lawsuit related to the operation of the notorious Kelihos botnet. The company said that it no longer believes Andrey N. Sabelnikov was the operator of the botnet, but was instead responsibl...

Citadel Trojan Updates with Dynamic Config Mechanism that Streamlines Fraud Activity

The elusive authors of the Citadel Trojan have released a new version of their banking botnet malware and service. The latest version, the sixth since it debuted in January and dubbed Rain, includes a dynamic configuration mechanism that allows botmasters to inject malicious content to compromise...

Nitol Botnet Shares Code with Other China-Based DDoS Malware

Microsoft has learned that much of the code used by the Nitol malware family is copied from free malware resources hosted on Chinese websites. Microsoft posted portions of the code online this week where similar lines used for denial of service attack functionality are present in Nitol and on the...

Virus conducting DDoS attack from infected systems

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the malicious program which is helping attackers carry out mass spam mailings and allow attacker to use victim's PC as slave of his DDOS Army. According to researchers from the company they have discovered a Trojan "Trojan.Proxy.23012"...

vOlk Botnet Framework 4.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

vOlk Botnet Framework 4.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities 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:...