New Phishing attack targets Italian Postal and Financial service again

A phishing attack is a complex combination of technology and psychology. There are numerous ways in which people are being made fools and they can be conned by hitting on unsecured website links. Sophos experts detected this week an intriguing case of phishing against the Italian postal service...

New Police Ransomware 'Browlock' targeting users in US, Canada and UK

What would you do if a European Cybercrime Agency locked your PC until you paid a fine? A new Police Ransomware family dubbed Trojan:HTML/Browlock by F-secure Antivirus firm, known as Browlock, which spreads by tricking unsuspecting web surfers into believing the police are after them. Ransomware...

Malicious Pinterest browser plugin stealing passwords and spreading spam

Social networking sites are unfortunately now major interest to malicious cyber criminals, spreading malware and building botnet army to steal money direct from your keyboards. Janne Ahlberg, a security professional from Finland found and analysed an interesting piece of malicious code, offered a...

F-Secure E-mail and Server Security FSDBCom ActiveX Control GetCommand Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of F-Secure E-mail and Server Security. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists...

Apple certified Mac Malware Captures and Uploads Screenshots without Permission

Earlier this week, new Mac spyware was discovered on a computer at the Oslo Freedom Forum, which is an annual human rights conference. Dubbed as OSX/KitM.A, discovered by computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum. This Mac malware that has been used to spy on activists, targeted via spear...

Researcher Discovers Mac Malware at Anti-Malware Workshop

In an Oslo Freedom Forum workshop offering advice to free speech advocates on how to better secure their devices against government surveillance, security researcher Jacob Appelbaum uncovered a new strain of malware with backdoor capabilities on the Mac machine of an Angolan activist attending th...

Apple certified Mac Malware Captures and Uploads Screenshots without Permission

Earlier this week, new Mac spyware was discovered on a computer at the Oslo Freedom Forum, which is an annual human rights conference. Dubbed as OSX/KitM.A, discovered by computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum. This Mac malware that has been used to spy on activists, targeted via spear...

SAP SOAP RFC SXPG_CALL_SYSTEM Remote Command Execution

This module abuses the SAP NetWeaver SXPGCALLSYSTEM function, on the SAP SOAP RFC Service, to execute remote commands. This module needs SAP credentials with privileges to use the /sap/bc/soap/rfc in order to work. The module has been tested successfully on Windows 2008 64-bit and Linux 64-bit...

Threats and Market Share Increase for Android, Decrease for Symbian

No real surprise that F-Secure’s fourth quarter threat report further accentuated the all-but-definite-reality that there is a direct correlation between a platform’s market share and the volume of threats targeting it. “As its market share declines,“ F-Secure researchers reasoned, “so does malwa...

Android developer said 'F-Secure can say that anything is malware'

As the popularity of Android has boomed, more and more malware is targeting the platform. Digital miscreants are using fraudulent developer accounts on Google's Play marketplace to spread malware. According to latest Mobile Threat report from F-Secure, Android malware continued to gain in share i...

Android developer said 'F-Secure can say that anything is malware'

As the popularity of Android has boomed, more and more malware is targeting the platform. Digital miscreants are using fraudulent developer accounts on Google's Play marketplace to spread malware. According to latest Mobile Threat report from F-Secure, Android malware continued to gain in share i...

Bots, Zeus, Web Exploits: the Most Potent Threats of 2012

Every year it seems that security-related news advances further from its roots in national security circles, IT departments, and the antivirus industry into the mainstream consciousness. From July to the end of year was no exception. However, despite a handful of flashy security stories, F-Secure...

Eugene Kaspersky, Mikko Hypponen Discuss the Internet, Cyber Warfare

In a video from this week’s DLD Conference, F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen and Kaspersky Lab’s CEO Eugene Kaspersky discuss increased paranoia surrounding cyber warfare, the dangers of the internet and the evolution of hacking throughout the years...

SAP /sap/bc/soap/rfc SOAP Service TH_SAPREL Function Information Disclosure

This module attempts to identify software, OS and DB versions through the SAP function THSAPREL using the /sap/bc/soap/rfc SOAP service. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework This module is based on, inspire...

SAP /sap/bc/soap/rfc SOAP Service RFC_READ_TABLE Function Dump Data

This module makes use of the RFCREADTABLE Function to read data from tables using the /sap/bc/soap/rfc SOAP service. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework This module is based on, inspired by, or is a port o...

SAP SOAP Service RFC_PING Login Brute Forcer

This module attempts to brute force SAP username and passwords through the /sap/bc/soap/rfc SOAP service, using RFCPING function. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework This module is based on, inspired by, o...

German Police eavesdropping Facebook, Gmail, Skype Conversations

An eavesdropping tool allegedly used by the German government to intercept Skype calls is full of security problems and may violate a ruling by the country's constitutional court, according to a European hacker club. The information was released as part of a move towards financial transparency. T...

Report: Toll Fraud Emerges as Android's Number One Threat

Mobile malware continues to run rampant, thanks to a growing glut of toll fraud malware – apps that have been engineered to bill its victims through premium SMS services. The malware type eclipsed spyware this year as the largest application-based threat according to mobile security firm Lookout...

CVE-2010-5161

Race condition in F-Secure Internet Security 2010 10.00 build 246 on Windows XP allows local users to bypass kernel-mode hook handlers, and execute dangerous code that would otherwise be blocked by a handler but not blocked by signature-based malware detection, via certain user-space memory chang...

Race condition

Race condition in F-Secure Internet Security 2010 10.00 build 246 on Windows XP allows local users to bypass kernel-mode hook handlers, and execute dangerous code that would otherwise be blocked by a handler but not blocked by signature-based malware detection, via certain user-space memory chang...