Tackling the BEC Epidemic in a New Partnership with INTERPOL

In just a few short years, Business Email Compromise BEC has gone from a peripheral threat to a major cyber risk for organizations. It’s making criminal gangs millions of dollars each month, hitting corporate profits and reputation in the process. Trend Micro has built a formidable array of...

Hidden Backdoor Found In WordPress Captcha Plugin Affects Over 300,000 Sites

Buying popular plugins with a large user-base and using it for effortless malicious campaigns have become a new trend for bad actors. One such incident happened recently when the renowned developer BestWebSoft sold a popular Captcha WordPress plugin to an undisclosed buyer, who then modified the...

ATM Users May Soon Face More Malware

By: David Sancho, Senior Threat Researcher at Trend Micro and Juan Jesús León, Product and New Development Manager of GMV Secure e-Solutions Trend Micro and GMV - an industry expert on ATM security - presented last week in London, during ATMSec, a conference focused on the topic. Our presentation...

Hackers' Op-Sec Failures Important Clues to Uncover APT Gangs

CANCUN – Sophistication, resourcefulness and ingenuity are characteristics usually associated with state-sponsored espionage hacker groups. But they’re certainly not infallible. Like most detective work, security analysts generally are able to toss back the covers on APT campaigns and major...

Missing Two-Factor Authentication Led to JPMorgan Breach

The biggest U.S. banking breach of all time came down to the smallest of details. The New York Times, citing sources close to the ongoing investigation of the JPMorgan data breach, said hackers found a server unprotected by two-factor authentication to break in using a stolen user name and passwo...

Prices Rising at Illegal Underground Hacking Markets

Underground hacker markets are peddling complete kits to create new identities, elevating in-person fraud scams a tier closer to credit card theft and fraud. Researchers at Dell SecureWorks released an update to 2013 research on black hat markets, noticing a number of noteworthy trends beyond the...

More details about alleged 17-year-old Russian BlackPOS Malware Author released

Security experts at IntelCrawler provided a new interesting update on BlackPOS malware author, that he forgot to delete his Social networking profile even after the last exposure from the investigators. As we have reported a few days before that the Intelligence firm IntelCrawler has identified a...

Winnti Cyberespionage Campaign Targets Gaming Companies

A cybercrime gang has been running roughshod over the gaming industry for years using malware signed with valid digital certificates to steal source code and valuable in-game currency for a number of popular online games. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab this morning published a report on the Winnti...

Citadel Trojan: It's Not Just for Banking Fraud Anymore

Banking malware has primarily been just that, an attack tool used against financial institutions to steal money from online bank accounts. But what if cybercrime gangs decided to flip that on its head, and use malware such as the Citadel banking Trojan to steal credentials from not only banks, bu...

Hackers will not be deterred by UK cyber defences !

Military "cyber weaponry" will become commonplace this century, but it will be unlikely to deter attacks by "hacktivists" and criminal gangs, and could easily be used for state-sponsored cyber attacks instead, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns. The British authors o...

ZDNet Security Blogger Goes Missing in Bulgaria

A prominent blogger and security researcher, Dancho Danchev, has gone missing and security publications, including Threatpost.com, are asking for help in locating him. Danchev, who contributed regular posts to ZDNet’s Zero Day blog, part of CBS Interactive, has been missing since late October...

Black Hat SEO

This Google TechTalk features Julien Sobrier of Zscaler discussing the tactics and techniques that spam gangs use in constructing their black hat SEO campaigns...

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...

How to Run a Scareware Campaign

The infection routines being used by some scareware and rogue AV gangs are much more comprehensive and far-reaching than many current analyses have shown, experts say, including some attacks that not only place a malicious script on a compromised server, but infect every single legitimate script ...

Banking Botnet in Eastern Europe Steals, Disrupts

Banks in Russia and Ukraine are under continued siege by criminal gangs wielding a sophisticated, next-generation exploitation kit that hacks the financial institutions’ authentication system and then hits it with a denial-of-service attack. Read the full article. The Register...

Facebook: The Money Mule Farm

Scammers and phishers are continuing to adapt their recruitment tactics, now going so far as to create special Facebook groups for their work-at-home scams. Phishers have been using social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter for years now as fertile hunting grounds not only for new...