Surveillance malware targets 350 high profile victims in 40 countries

A global cyber espionage campaign affecting over 350 high profile victims in 40 countries, appears to be the work of Chinese hackers using a Surveillance malware called "NetTraveler". Kaspersky Lab’s team of experts published a new research report about NetTraveler, which is a family of malicious...

Mysterious Avatar rootkit with API, SDK, and Yahoo Groups for C&C communication

Early 2012 ESET company a mysterious malware, dubbed the Avatar rootkit Win32/Rootkit.Avatar, advertised in the underground forums by Russian cyber crime. "We present you here previously announced product. In connection with work on other projects, we moved the release date for the public from Ma...

Mysterious Avatar rootkit with API, SDK, and Yahoo Groups for C&C communication

Early 2012 ESET company a mysterious malware, dubbed the Avatar rootkit Win32/Rootkit.Avatar, advertised in the underground forums by Russian cyber crime. "We present you here previously announced product. In connection with work on other projects, we moved the release date for the public from Ma...

Malware More Globally Distributed, Still Made in China

In an attempt to better evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly configuring their command and control infrastructure in such a way that initial malware callbacks communicate with a server located in the same country as the newly infected machines. This emerging trend is among the vast an...

Researchers detected the Malware that targets the Russian stock-trading platform QUIK

Security Researcher from Group-IB Group-IB is one of the leading companies in global cybercrime prevention and hi-tech crime investigations has found a new kind of malware that targets the Russian stock-trading platform QUIK. It was detected during several targeted attacks starting in November 20...

Researchers detected the Malware that targets the Russian stock-trading platform QUIK

Security Researcher from Group-IB Group-IB is one of the leading companies in global cybercrime prevention and hi-tech crime investigations has found a new kind of malware that targets the Russian stock-trading platform QUIK. It was detected during several targeted attacks starting in November 20...

'BadNews' Android Malware downloaded up to 9 million times

It appears as if another malware scare has come to Android. Lookout Security said on Friday that it has discovered a new family of malware called BadNews. Malware that avoided detection and made its way onto the Google Play store has been downloaded around 9 million times by users from all over t...

Cybercriminals Use Evernote as C&C

At least one group of cybercriminals has taken to Evernote, the popular cloud-based note-taking and data-sharing service, as a base of operations for a data stealing Trojan, according to TrendMicro threat response engineer Nikko Tamana. TrendMicro detected the threat as “BKDRVERNOT.A” and observe...

CentOS 6 : gdb (CESA-2013:0522)

Updated gdb packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Smoke Loader LFI / File Deletion Vulnerabilities

Smoke Loader Command and Control panel suffers from local file inclusion and file deletion vulnerabilities. Two other vulnerabilities I forgot to mention, lfi and file deletion via control.php. The user must be logged into the administrative panel. 1. LFI GET...

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New Ransomware Encrypts Victim Data

An unusual new strain of ransomware makes good on its threat, doing what the majority of other varieties only claim to do. The Trojan actually encrypts data on infected machines, effectively rendering certain files inaccessible to users on compromised computers in order to block removal. This...

PokerAgent botnet stole over 16,000 Facebook credentials

PokerAgent botnet was discovered in 2012 by ESET Security Research Lab, which is a Trojan horse designed to harvest Facebook log-on credentials, also collecting information on credit card details linked to the Facebook account and Zynga Poker player stats. According to latest report, the botnet i...

PokerAgent botnet stole over 16,000 Facebook credentials

PokerAgent botnet was discovered in 2012 by ESET Security Research Lab, which is a Trojan horse designed to harvest Facebook log-on credentials, also collecting information on credit card details linked to the Facebook account and Zynga Poker player stats. According to latest report, the botnet i...

Fedora Update for pl FEDORA-2013-0178

Check for the Version of pl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pl FEDORA-2013-0178 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the...

Red October Attackers Shutting Down C&C Infrastructure

It appears that the attackers behind the Red October cyberespionage campaign are taking their ball and going home. Since the attack came to light on Monday, the attackers have begun shutting down their infrastructure and the hosting providers and registrars involved with some of the...

Operation Red October : Cyber Espionage campaign against many Governments

A new sensational discovered has been announced by Kaspersky Lab's Global Research & Analysis Team result of an investigation after several attacks hit computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies. A new large scale cyber-espionage operation has been discovered, named Re...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: pl-6.0.2-5.fc18

ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler including modules, auto-load, libraries, Garbage-collector, stack-expandor, C/C++-interface, GNU-readline interface, very fast compiler. Including packages clib Unix process control and sockets, cpp C++ interface, sgml reading XML/SGML, sgml/RDF reading RDF int...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: pl-6.0.2-4.fc17

ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler including modules, auto-load, libraries, Garbage-collector, stack-expandor, C/C++-interface, GNU-readline interface, very fast compiler. Including packages clib Unix process control and sockets, cpp C++ interface, sgml reading XML/SGML, sgml/RDF reading RDF int...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: pl-5.10.2-9.fc16

ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler including modules, auto-load, libraries, Garbage-collector, stack-expandor, C/C++-interface, GNU-readline interface, very fast compiler. Including packages clib Unix process control and sockets, cpp C++ interface, sgml reading XML/SGML, sgml/RDF reading RDF int...