CryptoLocker Variant Coming After Gamers

Gamers may soon be feeling the pain of crypto-ransomware. A variant of CryptoLocker is in the wild that goes after data files associated with 20 different online games, locking downloadable content in an attempt to target younger computer users. Researchers at Bromium today said an unnamed...

Researchers: PlugX More Prominent Than Ever

Existing in some form since 2008, the popular remote access tool PlugX has as notorious a history as any malware, but according to researchers the tool saw a spike of popularity in 2014 and is the go-to malware for many adversary groups. Many attacks, especially those occurring during the latter...

Built-In Backdoor Found in Popular Chinese Android Smartphones

Chinese smartphone manufacturers have been criticized many times for suspected backdoors in its products, the popular Chinese smartphone brands, Xiaomi and Star N9500 smartphones are the top examples. Now, the China's third-largest mobile and world's sixth-largest phone manufacturer 'Coolpad', ha...

CoolReaper Backdoor Found On CoolPad Android Mobile Devices

A popular Android smartphone sold primarily in China and Taiwan but also available worldwide, contains a backdoor from the manufacturer that is being used to push pop-up advertisements and install apps without users’ consent. The Coolpad devices, however, are ripe for much more malicious abuse,...

Linux Modules Connected to Turla APT Attacks Discovered

The Turla APT campaigns have a broader reach than initially anticipated after the recent discovery of two modules built to infect servers running Linux. Until now, every Turla sample in captivity was designed for either 32- or 64-bit Windows systems, but researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discover...

'DeathRing' Chinese Malware Found Pre-Installed On Several Smartphones

Malware authors are trying hard to create malicious software with more innovative ways to infect victims. A new mobile Trojan horse infection has been discovered by security researchers that comes pre-loaded onto low-cost Chinese-made Android smartphones popular in Asia and Africa. The trojan,...

Cybercrime Group Preys on Wall Street Insider Information

A criminal hacking group with an innate understanding of how Wall Street moves and what influences stock prices has found a soft spot in more than 100 publicly traded companies and is stealing, among other data, mergers and acquisitions intelligence. The group is homed in on healthcare and...

Matsnu Botnet DGA Builds Domains From List of Nouns, Verbs

Domain generation algorithms have been botmasters’ favorite tool for keeping malware up and running—and for frustrating security researchers and detection technologies. Like malware, DGAs evolve, thus complicating an already tricky cat-and-mouse game between criminals and white hats. The latest i...

OnionDuke APT Malware served through Tor Network

The malicious Russian Tor exit node, which was claimed to be patching binary files, is actually distributing a malware program to launch cyber-espionage attacks against European government agencies. The group behind the rogue Tor exit node had likely been infecting files for more than a year,...

WireLurker Mac OS X Malware Shut Down

WireLurker is no more. After causing an overnight sensation, the newly disclosed family of Apple Mac OS X malware capable of also infecting iOS devices has been put to rest. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks confirmed this morning that the command and control infrastructure supporting WireLurker...

BlackEnergy Malware Used in Attacks Against ICS HMI

Industrial control system operations running human-machine interface software from a handful of vendors are being targeted by a hacking campaign making use of the BlackEnergy malware. The United States Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT published an advisory on Tuesd...

Russian APT28 Group Linked to NATO, Political Attacks

A Russian APT group tied to ongoing attacks against military and political targets in Eastern Europe and against NATO could also have ties to the MiniDuke espionage campaign uncovered more than a year ago. Dubbed APT28 by FireEye in a report published last night, the Russian hackers have targeted...

Koler Malware Propagating Through SMS

A new iteration of the Android ransomware Koler has surfaced that’s trying to trick its victims into downloading the malware by propagating through SMS messages. Android users receive SMS messages containing shortened bit.ly URLs that ultimately lead to the malicious .APK. Once opened, the packag...

NAT-PMP Security Vulnerability Affects 1.2M Routers

Vulnerabilities in embedded devices, in particular small office and home office routers, have been relentless. Another serious issue was discovered this week that affects more than 1.2 million such devices due to improper NAT-PMP protocol implementations, most of which run counter to the...

ZXShell Malware Services Detection

ZXShell is a remote access trojan backdoor that can be used to persist on your network for malicious purposes. Detections : - ZXShell HTTP server - ZXShell Command and Control server %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

Over 17000 Mac Machines Affected by 'iWorm' Botnet Malware

A newly discovered zombie network that exclusively targets Apple computers running Mac OS X across the globe has compromised roughly 17,000 machines so far, giving hackers backdoor access to infected computers, researchers at Russian antivirus firm Dr.Web warned. According to a survey of traffic...

Bash Vulnerability Exploits Dropping DDoS Bots

A honeypot run by researchers at AlienVault Labs has snared two separate pieces of malware attempting to exploit the Bash vulnerability. One sample is a repurposed IRC bot written in Perl that is trying to build a botnet to be used in distributed denial of service attacks DDoS, said Jaime Blasco,...

Watering Hole Attack Target Automotive, Aerospace Industries

Attackers managed to load malware onto the website of a prominent company involved in the development of simulation and systems engineering software widely used within the automotive, aerospace and manufacturing industries. These types of attacks are referred to as watering holes because, like a...

Backoff Sinkhole Reveals Sorry Point-of-Sale Security

Kaspersky Lab researchers say that a recent analysis of two Backoff malware command and control servers paints “a very bleak picture of the state of point-of-sale security.” Kaspersky Lab sinkholed two of the malware’s command and control servers. In just two days, nearly 100 infected systems,...

CryptoWall Ransomware Earns $1.1M, Encrypts 5 Billion Files

CryptoWall is a million-dollar business. The file-encrypting ransomware has netted the criminal gang responsible for its development and dispersal, more than $1.1 million in the six months it’s been in the wild, researchers at Dell SecureWorks’ Counter Threat Unit said in a report this week. The...