Attackers Go After SIM Cards in Bank Fraud Scams

Attackers are using a some new schemes that combine old phishing tactics with some newer techniques in order to steal or disable the SIM cards in victims’ mobile phones and then take them over for use in bank fraud transactions. Mobile phones have become high-value targets for attackers in many...

Cybercriminals Peddling Android Malware Through Twitter

Researchers at Symantec have identified a spike in Twitter messages carrying links to malicious programs for Android mobile devices in recent weeks, according to a post on Symantec’s Security Response blog on Monday. The post, penned by Joji Hamada, describes a series of Russian and...

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends An online scam has been exposed in which senior British military and government officials were tricked into becoming Facebook friends with someone masquerading as U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander and lead officer ...

HITB2011KUL - Reverse Engineering Android Malware

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Reverse Engineering Android Malware References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/413.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22KVTR4mEIk Release Date: ============= 2012-02-02 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Facebook, Washington Accuse Marketing Firm of Clickjacking

Facebook and the state of Washington are suing an ad network they accuse of encouraging people to spread spam through clickjacking schemes and other tactics. The company at the center of the allegations, Adscend Media, denies the charges and said it will fight them vigorously. According to the...

Fake CNBC's Website for Internet Fraud

Fake CNBC's Website for Internet Fraud The beauty of the Internet is that you can make a truckload of money out here. Yes, you really could quit your full time job if you work hard.The bad news is most people either don't want to work at it, or they buy into some scam that causes them to waste...

Carberp Trojan Commits Financial Fraud on Facebook

A new iteration of the Carberp trojan is targeting Facebook users, but unlike most Facebook attacks that attempt to pinch login credentials, this one is trying to steal money by fooling users into handing over an e-cash voucher. According to a report from Trusteer’s Amit Klein, the Carberp trojan...

Koobface Gang Shuts Down C&C Server, Drops Offline

The crew behind the Koobface worm, who have been quite open about their exploits and financial gains from their work in the past, now seem to be ducking underground as pressure is building on them in the wake of exposures of their operation and real identities. The command-and-control server used...

Alleged Russian Cybercriminal Extradited to U.S.

Vladimir Zdorovenin, an alleged prolific Russian cybercriminal, has arrived in New York City following his arrest and subsequent extradition by Swiss authorities. The FBI had been working to find and extradite Zdorovenin for several years. Originally indicted under seal in May 2007, the 54-year-o...

Facing Post-Transaction Attacks, Banks Should Reassess Fraud Protection

Banks will have to continue to upgrade their fraud protection controls, especially in the face of new and evolving attacks exclusively designed to evade them, researchers now say. A blog post, penned by Trusteer’s CTO Amit Klein, offers some research on these so-called post-transaction attack...

Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed

Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed Microsoft is to offer a real-time intelligence feed of botnet and e-crime data to public and private sector subscribers, according to security company Kaspersky. Currently, Microsoft is testing a real-time feed to distribute informatio...

In UK Analytics Software Provides Enhanced (Online) Interrogation For Fraud Suspects

A recent report by the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA shows that the Agency is full speed ahead with plans to use powerful data analytics tools to help find and prosecute everything from money laundering to illegal gambling to 419 scams. The 2011 Annual Report on Suspicious Activity...

Cyber Security Fraud in the Banking Industry: Lessons Learned in OCC Examiner Training

In late October 2011, Coalfire participated in a day of IT audit training with about 35 bank examiners. As you would expect, we covered a lot of previously hot topics. The conversation changed as we started talking about the amount of fraud being realized by community banks and credit unions...

Corporate fraud vs Anonymous Analytics Group

Corporate fraud vs Anonymous Analytics Group A new financial research group, Anonymous Analytics has released a report accusing Chinese firm Chaoda Modern Agriculture of "11 years of deceit and corporate fraud". The company is one of China's largest fruit and vegetable suppliers. A faction within...

FTC Criticizes ICANN Plan to Expand Domain Names

The Federal Trade Commission FTC is taking aim at a plan by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN to increase the number of domains on the Web. On Dec. 16, the FTC sent a letter to ICANN claiming that expanding the number of generic top-level domains gTLDs would open users...

Romanian Men Indicting For Hacking 150 Subway Restaurants

Four Romanian nationals were charged with hacking into the credit card processing systems of some 150 Subway sandwich shops and those of 50 other unnamed retailers, according to a copy of the indictment PDF. The four men and two co-conspirators, identified by their online pseudonyms,...

Personal Information of 3.5 Million Poker Players Spilled Online

Customers of the online poker Website Ultimate Bet UB are the victims of a data breach that spilled the private information of up to 3.5 million of its customers online over the weekend. Ultimate Bet, a property of the Cereus Poker Network, saw a slew of customer information posted online includi...

Two Million Requests from Infected Systems In Week After Ghost Click Takedown

The FBI says that more than 2.5 million systems infected with the DNSChanger malware connected to DNS servers set up by the authorities in the week following a crackdown on a global criminal network dubbed Ghost Click. The data, which was provided to the FBI by ISC, is the best indication yet of...

Manila AT&T hackers linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack

Manila AT&T hackers linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack Police in the Philippines working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation have arrested four people over a premium-line phone scam that targeted customers of the American telecommunications giant AT&T to funnel money to a Saudi-based...

Authorities Shut Down Carder Lab in Dominican Republic

Authorities in the Dominican Republic have shut down a carder lab in the city of Santo Domingo, and have arrested a 62-year-old man who they say is one of the alleged leaders of the group. Law enforcement officials had been investigating the group for several months, according to local reports, a...