CARBANAK Week Part Two: Continuing the CARBANAK Source Code Analysis

Update April 30: Following the release of our four-part CARBANAK Week blog series, many readers have found places to make the data shared in these posts actionable. We have updated this post to include some of this information. In the previous installment, we wrote about how string hashing was us...

Trickbot Malware Goes After Remote Desktop Credentials

The banking trojan known as Trickbot has resurfaced, with an updated info-stealing module that allows it to harvest remote desktop application credentials. According to Trend Micro’s Noel Anthony Llimos and Carl Maverick Pascual, a new variant has recently come on the scene, and is being spread v...

Hackers Found Using A New Code Injection Technique to Evade Detection

While performing in-depth analysis of various malware samples, security researchers at Cyberbit found a new code injection technique, dubbed Early Bird, being used by at least three different sophisticated malware that helped attackers evade detection. As its name suggests, Early Bird is a "simpl...

Microsoft teams up with law enforcement and other partners to disrupt Gamarue (Andromeda)

Today, with help from Microsoft security researchers, law enforcement agencies around the globe, in cooperation with Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit DCU, announced the disruption of Gamarue, a widely distributed malware that has been used in networks of infected computers collectively called the...

Sofacy APT Targeting OS X Machines with Komplex Trojan

The prolific APT gang allegedly behind the DNC hack and other targeted attacks against Western military and political targets is using a new Trojan called Komplex to infect OS X machines used in the aerospace industry. The gang, known as Sofacy, APT28, Fancy Bear, Sednit and Pawn Storm, is...

GM Bot Banking Malware Source Code Leak

Source code for the potent Android malware GM Bot has been leaked to underground forums, according to IBM security experts. The impact, IBM X-Force threat intelligence says, will be an uptick in GM Bot variants and the number of attacks targeting financial applications on Android-based devices...

Attackers Dropping Kasidet Bot via Office Macros

It’s well documented that attackers have reignited their love affair with the Office macro, using it as a vector for spreading banking malware and even the BlackEnergy Trojan as of late. According to researchers at the San Jose security company zScaler, the bot Kasidet, also known as Neutrino, ha...

Persistent Financial Malware 'Nemesis' Targets Boot Record

A group of attackers are behind a strain of payment card malware that has bootkit functionality, something that makes it very difficult to detect, much less remove. “FIN1,” the group behind the malware, appears to be based in Russia, according to researchers at both FireEye and Mandiant who...

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...

New Pandemiya Banking Trojan Written From Scratch

Brand new, written-from-scratch malware is a relatively rare undertaking on the underground. Aside from some private endeavors, source code is available for a number of popular Trojans, including Zeus, Citadel and Carberp, making it easy for attackers to simply grab one off the shelf and get...

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...

Carberp Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The 'encoded' part of the exploit do a filegetcontents on includes/config.php Then connect to the SQL db and show the Carberp credentials. in case if we don't have phpMyAdmin But it would be useless if we can't show the login page due to Auth key so it parse index.php and also retrieve it. Carber...

Paunch, the author of Blackhole Exploit kit arrested in Russia

According to a Security Analyst 'Maarten Boone' working at Fox-IT company, the Developer of notorious Blackhole Exploit Kit developer 'Paunch' and his partners were arrested in Russia recently. Blackhole Exploit Kit which is responsible for the majority of web attacks today, is a crimeware that...

Carberp Web Panel C2 Backdoor Remote PHP Code Execution

This module exploits backdoors that can be found all over the leaked source code of the Carberp botnet C2 Web Panel. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Carberp Web Panel C2 Backdoo...

Carberp Web Panel C2 Backdoor Remote PHP Code Execution

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Carberp Web Panel C2 Backdoor Remote...

Carberp Web Panel C2 Backdoor Remote PHP Code Execution

This Metasploit module exploits backdoors that can be sighted all over the leaked source code of the Carberp botnet C2 Web Panel. This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information...

Carberp Source Code Leaked

The source code for the Carberp Trojan, which typically sells for $40,000 on the underground, has been leaked and is now available to anyone who wants it. The leak has echoes of the release of the Zeus crimeware source code a couple of years ago and has security researchers concerned that it may...

Russian Police, Cybersecurity Company Arrest Cybercriminal

If you’ve ever sat in on a cybersecurity hearing on Capitol Hill or attended a security conference , then you’re no doubt familiar with the oft-preached need for information sharing and private-public partnerships. So frequently repeated are these refrains that they’re almost as meaningless as th...

Carberp botnet developers team arrested in Russia

Cybercriminals, underground hacking communities, hacker's market and Exploit packs.... Russian cyberspace is well known for such crazy hacking stuff. Recently, the original Carberp botnet developer ring that stole millions from bank accounts worldwide has been arrested. According to a report from...

Carberp botnet developers team arrested in Russia

Cybercriminals, underground hacking communities, hacker's market and Exploit packs.... Russian cyberspace is well known for such crazy hacking stuff. Recently, the original Carberp botnet developer ring that stole millions from bank accounts worldwide has been arrested. According to a report from...