FritzFrog P2P Botnet Attacking Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

A peer-to-peer Golang botnet has resurfaced after more than a year to compromise servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors within a span of a month, infecting a total of 1,500 hosts. Dubbed FritzFrog, "the decentralized botnet targets any device that expos...

RedisWannaMine Unveiled: New Cryptojacking Attack Powered by Redis and NSA Exploits

Recently cryptojacking attacks have been spreading like wildfire. At Imperva we have witnessed it firsthand and even concluded that these attacks hold roughly 90% of all remote code execution attacks in web applications. Having said that, all of the attacks we have seen so far, were somewhat...

Symantec Warns of New Malware Targeting SQL Databases

Symantec is warning of a new bit of malware that appears to be modifying corporate databases, particularly in the Middle East, though its showing up elsewhere in the world too. W32.Narilam, first discovered Nov. 15, follows a similar pattern of other worms by copying itself onto infected machines...

New Generation of Exploit Kits On The Rise

“The marketplace for hacker exploit kits is getting more crowded according to research by Kaspersky Labs, which found that new tools with names like SEOsploit and Crimepack are challenging the dominance of legacy tools like the Phoenix, Eleonore, Neosploit, YESExploit, and Liberty kits. A...

Microsoft: Vista Infected 62% Less Often Than XP

Windows Vista is dramatically more secure than Windows XP, according Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report. The infection rate of Windows Vista SP1 was 61.9 percent less than Windows XP SP3, the company said. The report covers the first half of 2009 and is the seventh such twice-yearly...

Conficker's estimated cost? $9.1 billion

From ZDNet Dancho Danchev In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of suck malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as high as $9.1 billion. Despite that their analysis also considered a much...