Mysterious Avatar rootkit with API, SDK, and Yahoo Groups for C&C communication

Early 2012 ESET company a mysterious malware, dubbed the Avatar rootkit Win32/Rootkit.Avatar, advertised in the underground forums by Russian cyber crime. "We present you here previously announced product. In connection with work on other projects, we moved the release date for the public from Ma...

Mysterious Avatar rootkit with API, SDK, and Yahoo Groups for C&C communication

Early 2012 ESET company a mysterious malware, dubbed the Avatar rootkit Win32/Rootkit.Avatar, advertised in the underground forums by Russian cyber crime. "We present you here previously announced product. In connection with work on other projects, we moved the release date for the public from Ma...

Fraud-as-a-Service of Zeus Malware advertised on social network

Cyber crime enterprise is showing a growing interest in monetization of botnets, the most targeted sector in recent months is banking. One of most active malware that still menaces Banking sector is the popular Zeus. Zeus is one of the oldest, it is active since 2007, and most prolific malware th...

Fraud-as-a-Service of Zeus Malware advertised on social network

Cyber crime enterprise is showing a growing interest in monetization of botnets, the most targeted sector in recent months is banking. One of most active malware that still menaces Banking sector is the popular Zeus. Zeus is one of the oldest, it is active since 2007, and most prolific malware th...

Police in Japan ask ISPs to start blocking Tor network

Tor is a web service that allows users to surf the Internet, use IM, and other services while keeping themselves completely anonymous, but Japan's National Police Agency wants ISPs to block access to Tor if users are found to have abused it. The push by Japanese authorities is because they're...

Police in Japan ask ISPs to start blocking Tor network

Tor is a web service that allows users to surf the Internet, use IM, and other services while keeping themselves completely anonymous, but Japan's National Police Agency wants ISPs to block access to Tor if users are found to have abused it. The push by Japanese authorities is because they’re...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Hunting Russian malware author behind Phoenix Exploit Kit

Exploit kits are one of the dangerous cyber crime tool, where The Phoenix Exploit Kit is a good example of exploit packs used to exploit vulnerable software on the computers of unsuspecting Internet users. The Phoenix Exploit Kit is available for a base price of $2,200 in underground market by it...

Facebook Apps Promise Change but In Reality Phish Your Information

Spammy Facebook apps are nothing new, the web giant has been dealing with suspicious behavior apps since the website launched the Facebook Platform for developers in 2007. As an open source app development tool, anyone can create an app, including people who really just want to steal your...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : OpenSSL (SAT Patch Number 7548)

OpenSSL has been updated to fix several security issues : - Avoid the openssl CRIME attack by disabling SSL compression by default. Setting the environment variable 'OPENSSLNODEFAULTZLIB' to 'no' enables compression again. CVE-2012-4929 - Timing attacks against TLS could be used by physically loc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenSSL (ZYPP Patch Number 8517)

OpenSSL has been updated to fix several security issues : - Avoid the openssl CRIME attack by disabling SSL compression by default. Setting the environment variable 'OPENSSLNODEFAULTZLIB' to 'no' enables compression again. CVE-2012-4929 Please note that openssl on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 is not...

SUSE-SU-2015:1184-2 Security update for OpenSSL

OpenSSL has been updated to fix several security issues: CVE-2012-4929: Avoid the openssl CRIME attack by disabling SSL compression by default. Setting the environment variable 'OPENSSLNODEFAULTZLIB' to 'no' enables compression again. CVE-2013-0169: Timing attacks against TLS could be used by...

SSL/TLS CRIME attack against HTTPS

The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Qt, and other products, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing length differenc...

RHEL 5 / 6 : openssl (RHSA-2013:0587)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0587 advisory. OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocols, as well as a...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : apache (MDVSA-2013:015-1)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in apache ASF HTTPD : Various XSS cross-site scripting vulnerability flaws due to unescaped hostnames and URIs HTML output in modinfo, modstatus, modimagemap, modldap, and modproxyftp CVE-2012-3499. XSS cross-site scripting vulnerability in...

Lulzsec hacker Sabu's sentencing postponed again

Remember Hector Xavier Monsegur a.k.a Lulzsec hacker Sabu ? That undercover double agent working for the FBI. Once again Authorities abruptly postponed his sentencing due to his continued cooperation with the feds. All told, he faced a maximum time behind bars of 124 years associated with his...

Debian DSA-2627-1 : nginx - information leak

Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong discovered a weakness in the TLS/SSL protocol when using compression. This side channel attack, dubbed'CRIME', allows eavesdroppers to gather information to recover the original plaintext in the protocol. This update to nginx disables SSL compression. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-2626-1 : lighttpd - several issues

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the TLS/SSL protocol. This update addresses these protocol vulnerabilities in lighttpd. - CVE-2009-3555 Marsh Ray, Steve Dispensa, and Martin Rex discovered that the TLS and SSLv3 protocols do not properly associate renegotiation handshakes with an...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2627-1] nginx security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2627-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst February 17, 2013 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...