Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Advice Notification Email Messages on December 11, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 32135 First Published: 2013 December 12 16:31 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain payment advice for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open th...

ZeroAccess Peer To Peer Botnet Takedown Incomplete

Microsoft trumpeted its disruption of the ZeroAccess peer-to-peer botnet late last week, but some experts are holding off on scheduling a celebratory ticker-tape parade. With numerous successful takedowns of botnets with a centralized command and control infrastructure in its back pocket, Microso...

microsoft disrupts zeroaccess botnet

Microsoft’s crusade against botnets raged on yesterday as the Redmond, Wash., computer giant and a coalition of law enforcement agencies and Internet security companies disrupted the notorious ZeroAccess botnet. ZeroAccess, or Sirefef as Microsoft likes to call it, is a malware platform that...

Biggest American Bank 'JPMorgan Chase' hacked; 465,000 card users' data stolen

JPMorgan Chase, one of the world's biggest Banks has recently announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack and warned round 465,000 of its holders of prepaid cash cards on the possible exposure of their personal information. In the Security Breach that took place on the bank's website...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Financial Fraud Alert Email Messages on November 25, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31884 First Published: 2013 November 25 14:38 GMT Last Updated: 2013 November 26 15:31 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages that claim to contain a financial fraud alert for the recipient. The text ...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Account Fraud Alert Email Messages on November 21, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31852 First Published: 2013 November 22 18:36 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an irregular account activity notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Credit Card Transaction Notification Email Messages on November 8, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31691 First Published: 2013 November 11 19:22 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain credit card transaction details for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

FBI offering $100,000 reward for information on Most Wanted Cyber Criminals

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has added five new hackers to its Cyber most wanted list and is seeking information from the public regarding their whereabouts. The men are wanted in connection with hacking and fraud crimes both within the US as well as internationally. Rewards ranging fro...

FBI offering $100,000 reward for information on Most Wanted Cyber Criminals

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has added five new hackers to its Cyber most wanted list and is seeking information from the public regarding their whereabouts. The men are wanted in connection with hacking and fraud crimes both within the US as well as internationally. Rewards ranging fro...

Sefnit Click-Fraud Malware Related to Mevade Tor Botnet

A malware family, likely developed by the same authors who built a massive botnet recently discovered on the Tor network, has been revived with a stealthy new click-fraud scam. Microsoft reports a rash of new click-fraud activity linked to the Sefnit malware, which was thought dead and buried as ...

22 years-old Chartered Accountant student hacks into Celebrities E-taxation Accounts

Last week a 21-year-old chartered accountant student from Hyderabad was arrested for hacking into E-taxation Account of Industrialist Anil Ambani. During the probe Mumbai Police’s crime branch has emerged that Anil Ambani's account was also fraudulently accessed from Noida. After investigation,...

FBI Warning Users About Financial Malware Beta Bot

The FBI began warning computer users about the Beta Bot Trojan this week, sounding the alarm about malware that has targeted a variety of online payment platforms and financial institutions over the few last months. According to an intelligence note prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center...

Anonymous Hacker 'Kahuna' sentenced to 3 years in prison for hacking Police websites

An Anonymous Hacker and Online hacktivist who was responsible for hacking into the City of Springfield’s website and others Police websites has been sentenced to 3 years in federal prison. John Anthony Borell III, a 22-year-old man from Ohio with the online handle @ItsKahuna started advertising h...

Call for Ban on Vulnerable PHP SuperGlobal Variables

The ease with which PHP applications can be subverted should be pretty apparent by now given the number of botnets supported by compromised sites hosting PHP code. The biggest culprit in the PHP universe may be a set of nine variables called SuperGlobals that provide programmers with development...

Adobe Photo Loader Malware Posts Craigslist Spam

An attacker is going to a lot of trouble to post spam messages to Craigslist. Researchers at Solera Networks have come across an attack where malware is using compromised machines to post poorly worded ads for an Android application marketed at parents for the purposes of monitoring the activitie...

Twitter Account 'Classifier' Detects Fraudulent Accounts

Fraudulent Twitter accounts are a booming business, accounting for significant underground money for spammers, fake antivirus scams, drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. But research presented at USENIX yesterday proposes a means for driving up the cost for attackers to get these campaigns of...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Package Delivery Failure Notification Email Messages on September 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30380 First Published: 2013 August 12 16:35 GMT Last Updated: 2013 September 4 14:50 GMT Version: 7 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Italian-language spam email messages that claim to contain a package delivery failure notification for the...

Russian Hackers charged for stealing 160 million Credit Cards

A Group of Hackers, Four Russians and a Ukrainian allegedly broke computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations and stole 160 million credit card numbers over the course of seven years, the largest data theft case ever prosecuted in the U.S. They are accused...

Hacking Ring Steals $300 Million, 160 Million Card Numbers

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey is expected to further discuss charges today against five hackers who allegedly stole at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers and netted more than $300 million over the course of seven years in what could be the largest cybercrim...

Russian Hackers charged for stealing 160 million Credit Cards

A Group of Hackers, Four Russians and a Ukrainian allegedly broke computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations and stole 160 million credit card numbers over the course of seven years, the largest data theft case ever prosecuted in the U.S. They are accused...