Fortify SCA analysis code vulnerabilities the whole solution-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The last describes the use of FindBugs-assisted analysis of code vulnerability, this time a tools: Fortify SCA Demo 4.0.0。 Fortify is a security aspect of the quite famous company, there is not much to say. First introduce the protagonist: the Fortify SCA Demo 4.0.0, although do not know now...

Zeus-Carberp Hybrid Trojan Pops Up

UPDATE–Researchers have discovered a hybrid Trojan that combines elements of two of the more notorious crimeware strains of the last few years: Zeus and Carberp. It’s not uncommon for malware writers to steal bits and pieces of code from one another, but both Zeus and Carberp were once exclusivel...

Caphaw Banking Malware Distributed via YouTube Ads

More than one billion of unique visitor spend about 6 billion hours on YouTube to watch videos, according to monthly YouTube Stats. Security researchers from Bromium Labs recently found that YouTube advertising network has been abused by rogue advertisers to distribute malware. YouTube In-Stream...

Second Group Seen Using IE 10 Zero Day

There are at least two different groups running attacks exploiting the recently published zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 10, and researchers say one of the groups used the bug to impersonate a French aerospace manufacturer and compromise victims visiting the spoofed Web page. The...

Tor-enabled Point-of-Sale malware 'ChewBacca' stole Credit Card data from 11 Countries

+malware+stole+credit+card+data+from+11+Countries.jpg After the massive data breaches at U.S retailers Target and Neiman Marcus in which financial credentials of more than 110 million and 1.1 million customers were compromised respectively, shows that the Point of Sale POS system has become a new...

ICEPOL Ransomware Servers seized by Romanian Police that infected 260,000 Computers

After Financial and Banking Malwares, Ransomware has become the first choice of money motivated cybercriminals. A new Ransomware Trojan known as ICEPOL has been one of those widespread malware which has been successfully installed approximately 267,786 times worldwide and 42,400 in the USA alone...

GMime: Arbitrary code execution

Background GMime is a C/C++ library which may be used for the creation and parsing of messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension MIME. Description GMime contains a buffer overflow flaw in the GMIMEUUENCODELEN macro in gmime/gmime-encodings.h. Impact A context-dependent attacker could...

EFF Activists, Journalists Hit By Targeted Malware Attack

Phishing and malware attacks are among the more democratic and populist threats on the Internet. You don’t have to stand in the crowd in order to be targeted; the attackers will get to you sooner or later. But while most malware campaigns are aimed at the masses, attackers often save their best...

Mac OS X Flashback Trojan is still alive, recently infected 22,000 Apple machines

The Flashback Trojan, the most sophisticated piece of malware that infected over 600,000 Apple's Macs systems back in April, 2012 is still alive and has infected about 22,000 machines recently, according to the researchers from Intego. For a refresh, Flashback Trojan was first discovered in...

PrisonLocker Ransomware Emerges From Criminal Underground

Security researchers from Malware Must Die uncovered new ransomware called PrisonLocker, and said the malware author is either a legitimate security researcher or is posing as one via a personal blog and Twitter handle. Malware Must Die has monitored PrisonLocker’s development since spotting it f...

Poison Ivy Command and Control Scanner

Enumerate Poison Ivy Command and Control C on ports 3460, 80, 8080 and 443. Adaptation of iTrust Python script. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Poison Ivy Command and Control...

New Mac OS Malware exploited two known Java vulnerabilities

A new Mac OS Malware has been discovered called OSX/Leverage.A, which appears to be yet another targeted command-and-control Trojan horse, that creates a backdoor on an affected user's machine. The Trojan named 'Leverage' because the Trojan horse is distributed as an application disguised as a...

Kaspersky revealed "Kimsuky" Cyber Espionage campaign targeting South Korea

Russian Security Firm Kaspersky Lab has revealed that it has been following a sustained attack on South Korea by hackers seemingly based in North Korea., This new Cyber Espionage campaign dubbed "Kimsuky" has targeted several South Korean think tanks. Researchers believe the Kimsuky malware is mo...

Tor Anonymizing network overload caused by Mevade Botnet

Recently, Tor Project Director - Roger Dingledine described a sudden increase in Tor users on the Tor Network after the events related to disclosure of the PRISM surveillance program, Since August 19, 2013, there has been an impressive growth in the number of Tor users. At first, No one knew who ...

Hand of Thief Linux Banking Trojan Not Ready For Primetime

Upon further examination, a new banking Trojan variant may not be as commercially viable as it was thought to be. Researchers at RSA Security have peeled back the layers this week on the Hand of Thief banking Trojan, a piece of malware that made headlines over the summer after it was thought to b...

Android Malware uses Google Cloud Messaging Service; infected over 5 Million Devices

The Kaspersky Lab researchers recently have discovered a number of Android malware apps are abusing the Google Cloud Messaging Service GCM as Command and Control server. The GCM service allows Android app developers to send messages using JSON Format for installed apps, but hackers exploited it f...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: pyicu-1.4-2.fc18

PyICU is Python extension wrapping IBM's International Components for Unicode C++ library ICU. ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU is widely portable and gives applications the same results on all...

Most Sophisticated Android malware ever detected

A new piece of sophisticated Android malware has been discovered by security researchers at Kaspersky Labs. Dubbed as Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a, it is the most sophisticated piece of Android malware ever seen. It exploits multiple vulnerabilities, blocks uninstall attempts, attempts to gain root...

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...

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...