Impassioned Framework Download - Another Crimeware Available for Free !

Impassioned Framework Download - Another Crimeware Available for Free ! Russo is the creator of Impassioned Framework - Browser Exploitation Kit, a subscription-based software vulnerability exploit service. He is 23 year old the young hacker, This toolkits designed to be stitched into a Web site...

Unknown Exploit Kit (Crimeware) leaked, Available for Download !

Unknown Exploit Kit Crimeware leaked, Available for Download ! Another New Exploit kit is now in Black Market called Unknown Exploit Kit or Mushroom Exploit Kit . After The Public Release of Source code of ZeuS Botnet Version: 2.0.8.9 , THN also provide Crimepack 3.1.3 Exploit kit & 26 more...

Fake Apple Store Emails Redirect to New WikiPharmacy

Fake Apple Store order notification emails floating around the Web right now are redirecting to a new site pushing the same old familiar list of discount read: fake pharmaceuticals. Similar scams have been going on for months now. They typically redirect to a relatively familiar pharmacy page...

Zeus Source Code Leaked

The source code to the infamous Zeus crimeware kit, which has been sold on underground forums for years, has been leaked and is now available for anyone to see if they know where to look. Security researchers over the weekend noticed that files that appeared to contain the source code for the Zeu...

Crimeware Kit Emerges for Mac OS X

Crimeware kits have become a ubiquitous part of the malware scene in the last few years, but they have mainly been confined to the Windows platform. Now, reports are surfacing that the first such kit targeting Apple’s Mac OS X operating system has appeared. The kit is being compared to the Zeus...

Top Crimeware Hosting Provider Taken Offline

VolgaHost, a hosting provider notorious in the security community for hosting botnet command-and-control servers and other services related to online crime has been taken offline, and a number of servers involved in the Zeus crimeware operation are offline, as a result. The hosting provider, whic...

Cisco: More Threats To Apple, Mobile Devices In 2011

Data suggests that 2010 was a year of “more of the same” when it comes to computer threats, but 2011 likely won’t be, at least according to networking giant Cisco Systems, which released its Annual Security Report on Wednesday. Cisco’s annual report on the state of security reiterated findings fr...

Report: Phishing Activity is Down (And That's A Bad Thing)

The number of phishing attacks declined in the first half of 2010, but a report from the Anti Phishing Working Group warns that might not be such a good thing. The group released its Global Phishing Survey on Monday covering the first six months of 2010. Overall, the survey reported a steep decli...

Researchers Find Malware on My Opera Page

Researchers have discovered that a page on the My Opera community Web site is hosting malware related to an IRC botnet. The discovery comes just a couple of weeks after malicious code also was found on Google Code servers. On Thursday, a researcher perusing a page on the My Opera community site...

Botnet Herder PROXIEZ Goes Offline

One of the internet’s most resilient and crimeware-friendly networks PROXIEZ-NET was knocked offline after the plug was pulled on its upstream service provider, security watchers said. Read the full article. The Register...

Crimeware: A New Round of Confrontation Begins

This article provides an analysis of recent developments regarding attacks launched by malicious programs against the clients of financial organizations. This article will focus primarily on the struggle for control between financial malware, also known as crimeware1, and the antivirus industry a...

Researcher Who Helped Take Down Waledac Talks Crimeware

Thorsten Holz, researcher at Vienna University of Technology, whose team not only participated in the recent takedown of the Waledac botnet, but released an interesting paper earlier this year, summarizing their findings based on 33GB of crimeware data obtained from active campaigns talks to Danc...

Zeus Kits Take Anti-Piracy Page from MS

The latest version of the Zeus do-it-yourself crimeware kit goes to great lengths to thwart would-be pirates by introducing a hardware-based product activation scheme similar to what’s found in Microsoft Windows. Read the full article. The Register...

New Criminal Toolkit Touts Zeus Killing

Purveyors of a new botnet toolkit are touting a feature aimed at aspiring cybercriminals: the opportunity to commandeer computers already compromised by an established crimeware package known as Zeus. Read the full article. The Register...

ID Theft Gang Using Amazon's EC2 as Command and Control Server

Security researchers have intercepted a new variant of the Zeus crimeware using Amazon’s EC2 services to command and control the botnet. The cybercriminals appear to be using Amazon’s RDS managed database hosting service as a backend alternative in case they lose access to the original domain,...

'Avalanche' Crimeware Kit Fuels Phishing Attacks

A single cybercrime group called “Avalanche” was responsible for nearly one-quarter of all identity theft-related phishing attacks in the first half of 2009, according to a new report by the Anti-Phishing Work Group APWG. According to the report, phishing sites on Avalanche domains target the...

Malware Economy is Thriving

TORONTO — The legitimate economy may be in rough shape right now, but the same cannot be said for the underground economy. Malware authors and botmasters are thriving, experts say, with some online criminals charging as much as $3,500 for their attack toolkits. But don’t be intimidated by the hig...

Researcher Finds Twitter Botnet Command Channel

Arbor Networks security researcher Jose Nazario has stumbled upon a crimeware botnet using Twitter as its command-and-control operation. The botnet, which is linked to identity thieves in Brazil, uses Twitter status messages to communicate with bots — sending new links for the infected computers ...

Researcher Finds Twitter Botnet Command Channel

Arbor Networks security researcher Jose Nazario has stumbled upon a crimeware botnet using Twitter as its command-and-control operation. The botnet, which is linked to identity thieves in Brazil, uses Twitter status messages to communicate with bots — sending new links for the infected computers ...