POC Android botnet - Command and Control Channel over SMS

POC Android botnet - Command and Control Channel over SMS To avoid detection, this proof-of-concept code utilizes the Short Messaging Service SMS as a command & control channel. This adds fault tolerance because, if a smartphone is not available on the GSM network due to being powered off or out...

Kelihos Returns: Same Botnet or New Version?

The twice-shut-down Kelihos botnet remains active and continues spamming with a new variant, despite yesterday’s efforts by Kaspersky Lab and CrowdStrike that knocked offline and sinkholed the most recent version of the botnet. According to a Seculert report, the indomitable botnet is using a...

Kaspersky Knocks Down Kelihos Botnet Again, But Expects Return

For the second time in six months, researchers from the Russian antivirus company, Kaspersky Lab, carried out an operation to take down the newest iteration of the Kelihos botnet, also known as “Hlux.” Microsoft and Kaspersky worked together in September, 2011, on the first Kelihos take-down. The...

Kaspersky finds Malware that resides in your RAM

Kaspersky finds Malware that resides in your RAM Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a drive-by download attack that evades hard-drive checkers by installing malware that lives in the computer's memory. The 'fileless' bot is more difficult for antivirus software to detect, and resides in...

Chinese Trojans Gh0stRAT used to attack pro-Tibet organisations

Chinese Trojans Gh0stRAT used to attack pro-Tibet organisations AlienVault has discovered a range of spear phishing attacks taking place against a number of Tibetan organizations apparently from Chinese attackers. The security firm believes that the attacks are originating from the same Chinese...

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome Security Expert, from Security Affairs - Pierluigi Paganini takes us on a visit to China via The Hacker News January Edition Magazine Article and makes us wonder just how influential China's hacking is on world internet security...

Malware automatically uploading stolen data to the File sharing sites

Malware automatically uploading stolen data to the File sharing sites Roland Dela Paz, a threat response engineer with Trend Micro have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its stolen data cache to the SendSpace file-sharing service for retrieval. File-storage...

Ongoing Targeted Attack Campaign Going After Defense, Aerospace Industries

Researchers have identified a strain of malware that’s being used in a string of targeted attacks against defense contractors, government agencies and other organizations by leveraging exploits against zero-day vulnerabilities. The attacks may have been going on since 2009 in some form and the...

Phishers Bait City Workers in Seattle With Phony Speeding Tickets

Hundreds of government employees in Seattle, Washington received fraudulent emails yesterday that appeared to be traffic violation notifications but were, in fact, vehicles for infection by malicious software. According to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center and the Seattle Police Department,...

Koobface Gang Shuts Down C&C Server, Drops Offline

The crew behind the Koobface worm, who have been quite open about their exploits and financial gains from their work in the past, now seem to be ducking underground as pressure is building on them in the wake of exposures of their operation and real identities. The command-and-control server used...

Duqu computer virus Detected by Iran civil defense organization

Duqu computer virus Detected by Iran civil defense organization The virus is called W32.Duqu, or just Duqu create fear after the opening Pandora's Box of Stuxnet. The head of Iran's civil defense organization told the official IRNA news agency that computers at all main sites at risk were being...

Duqu Attackers Using Word Docs As Attack Vector

As the analysis of the Duqu malware continues to evolve, the picture that’s emerging is becoming more and more intriguing. The latest bits of evidence uncovered show that not only do the attackers create custom files for each individual attack, there is evidence indicating that they might have be...

Duqu Analysis and Detection Tool by NSS Labs

Duqu Analysis and Detection Tool by NSS Labs NSS Labs has built a new, free tool that detects known and newly created Duqu drivers that have infiltrated systems, thus allowing security experts to further analyze the "functionality, capabilities and ultimate purpose of DuQu.". The Tool is availabl...

Duqu Installer Contains Windows Kernel Zero Day

A newly discovered installer for the Duqu malware includes an exploit for a previously unknown vulnerability in the Windows kernel that allows remote code execution. Microsoft is working on a fix for the kernel vulnerability right now. The exact location and nature of the flaw isn’t clear right...

Symantec Traces Attacks on Chemical Industry To 20 Year Old Chinese Hacker-For-Hire

A report from Symantec Corp. details a roving campaign of intellectual property theft controlled by a 20 year-old hacker for hire that relied on phishing e-mail, some old malware and command and control operations based in China. The company on Tuesday unveiled research on the targeted attacks,...

760+ Organizations, Including Google, Facebook, Targeted by RSA Attack

More than 760 organizations, 20 percent of them Fortune 100 companies, may have been compromised by RSA’s now infamous data breach in March, 2011, according to a report on Krebsonsecurity. Facebook, Google and Cisco Systems are just a few of the many organizations who were targets of malware usin...

Did the German Government Break The Law With Its Lawful Intercept Trojan?

The German government acknowledged on Tuesday that a trojan horse program used to perform lawful intercept is capable of far more than it was said to be. The confirmation comes after an analysis by hacking group The Chaos Computer Club CCC which alleged that the program may be in breach of the la...

Microsoft Takes Down Kelihos Botnet

Continuing its legal assault on botnet operators and the hosting companies that the criminals use for their activities, Microsoft has announced new actions against a group of people it contends are responsible for the operation of the Kelihos botnet. The company has also helped to take down the...

Mac trojan poses as PDF to open botnet backdoor

Mac trojan poses as PDF to open botnet backdoor There's another Mac OS X Trojan out in the wild, and it might be heading your way.If you open the file, which could appear as an emailed attachment or as a Web link, the document, written in traditional Chinese ideograms, does indeed display. But a...

Aldi Bot - Buy a Botnet just in 10 Euros

Aldi Bot - Buy a Botnet just in 10 Euros Researchers of German security firm G Data have discovered that a bot builder dubbed "Aldi Bot" is currently being offered for that much on underground forums. The Aldi Bot Builder appears to be based on the ZeuS source code. The malware has nothing to do...