Shodan’ Malware Hunter to Expose Command & Control Centers of Botnets

By Jahanzaib Hassan Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company together with Shodan, which is an internet search engine connecting services to internet devices, have created an online crawler which they call the Malware Hunter. What does it do? The Malware Hunter is a program that sends out...

osquery Command And Control: Kolide

osquery Command And Control Kolide is an agentless osquery web interface and remote api server. Kolide uses the osquery remote apis to do ad-hoc distributed queries, osqueryd configurations and the collection and processing of scheduled queries packs. Kolide was designed to be extremely portable ...

Compression Side-Channel Attack Framework: Rupture

A COMPRESSION SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACK FRAMEWORK Rupture is a framework for easily conducting BREACH and other compression-based attacks Rupture is a framework for conducting network attacks against web services. It is focused on compression-attacks, but provides a generalized scalable system for...

Kali Linux: Kill Chain

Kill Chain for Kali Linux 2.0 is a unified console with an anonymizer that will perform these stages of attacks: Reconnaissance Weaponization Delivery Exploit Installation Command & Control And Actions Dependencies: Tor — For the console build in anonymizer. Set — Social-Engineer Toolkit SET,...

Killchain - A Unified Console To Perform The "Kill Chain" Stages Of Attacks

“Kill Chain” is a unified console with an anonymizer that will perform these stages of attacks: Reconnaissance Weaponization Delivery Exploit Installation Command & Control And Actions Dependant tool sets are: 1 Tor -- For the console build in anonymizer. 2 Set -- Social-Engineer Toolkit SET,...

Gcat - A stealthy Backdoor that uses Gmail as a command and control server

A stealthy Python based backdoor that uses Gmail as a command and control server. Setup For this to work you need: A Gmail account Use a dedicated account! Do not use your personal one! Turn on "Allow less secure apps" under the security settings of the account This repo contains two files: gcat....

Linux Australia Breached by Hackers

Linux Australia, a consortium in charge of organizing Linux conferences Down Under, acknowledged over the weekend it was breached by attackers who were able to secure access to one of its servers, and with it, potential user information. In a detailed email to users on Saturday, the group’s...

bfcommand & control server 1.22/2.0/2.14 manager Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14690/info BFCC and BFVCC server managers are vulnerable to multiple remote vulnerabilities. The first two issues are login bypass vulnerabilities. These issues allow remote, anonymous attackers to gain access to the...

kernel: block: floppy: privilege escalation via FDRAWCMD floppy ioctl command

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's floppy driver handled user space provided data in certain error code paths while processing FDRAWCMD IOCTL commands. A local user with write access to /dev/fdX could use this flaw to free using the kfree function arbitrary kernel memory. CVE-2014-173...

Kaspersky, Citizen Lab Uncover HackingTeam Mobile Malware

Controversial spyware commercially developed by Italy’s HackingTeam and sold to governments and law enforcement for the purpose of surveillance, has a global command and control infrastructure and for the first time, security experts have insight into how its mobile malware components work...

WhatsApp for Windows? Naaa.. Hackers are spamming Malware as WhatsApp Software

Cyber criminals are taking advantage of the widespread popularity of the mobile messaging app 'WhatsApp'. A malware expert at the Kaspersky Lab revealed a large-scale spamming campaign, advertising a fake PC version of the WhatsApp, to spread a banking trojan. According to the report, unaware use...

Russian Cyber Criminals selling hacked websites access in Underground stores

Underground sites more commonly offer access to networks of compromised machines or stolen credit card information. Webroot has uncovered a criminal underground store dedicated to selling access to more than tens of thousands of hacked legitimate websites. Their customers can buy an administrator...

New Dirt Jumper Variant 'Drive' More Refined Than Original

Researchers have detected new attacks originating from a souped-up variant of the DIY Dirt Jumper DDoS toolkit they’ve taken to calling Drive. While it hasn’t been seen spreading through any underground forums yet, the up-and-coming threat apparently boasts a “much more powerful DDoS engine than...

IRC Botnet Leveraging Unpatched Plesk Vulnerability

Researchers have found a botnet exploiting a vulnerability in the Plesk hosting control panel, ramping up calls from experts to upgrade to current versions of the product. A notice on the Plesk command injection vulnerability as well as exploit code was posted last week to the Full Disclosure lis...

Stabuniq Trojan rapidly stealing data from US banks

--- Trojan.Stabuniq geographic distribution by unique IP address Security researchers from Symantec have identified a new Trojan that appears to be targeting financial institutions. Dubbed Trojan.Stabuniq, the malware has been collecting information from infected systems potentially for the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: android-tools-20121120git3ddc005-1.fc16

The Android Debug Bridge ADB is used to: - keep track of all Android devices and emulators instances connected to or running on a given host developer machine - implement various control commands e.g. "adb shell", "adb pull", etc. for the benefit of clients command-line users, or helper programs...

Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Israel and Palestine

Multiple malware attacks against both Israeli and Palestinian systems, likely to be coming from the same source, have been seen over the last year. Researchers in Norway have uncovered evidence of a vast Middle Eastern espionage network that for the past year has deployed malicious software to sp...

Cross-platform Trojan : Mac, Windows, Linux - Nothing safe !

Security researchers working for F-Secure have found a web exploit that detects the operating system of the computer and drops a different trojan to match.The attack was first seen on a Columbian transport website which had been hacked by a third party. This malware is known as GetShell.A and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: sudo-1.8.3p1-2.fc16

Sudo superuser do allows a system administrator to give certain users or groups of users the ability to run some or all commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features include: the ability to restrict...

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ?

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ? Article by : Nidhi Rastogi is a Cyber security professional based in New York. Article shared from THE HACKER NEWS magazine - November Edition. You can download Complete Magazine here. Barely a year into discovering Stuxnet, the world recently saw its powerf...