Advanced Obfuscation Marks Widespread Info-Stealing Campaign

A large-scale spam campaign bent on spreading info-stealing malware is applying advanced obfuscation techniques to get around security scanning and maximize infection rates. According to Lastline researchers, a large botnet is distributing malicious rich text format RTF documents that act as...

Gnip Banking Trojan Shows Ongoing, Aggressive Development

A new custom mobile banking malware for Android, dubbed Gnip, has emerged onto the scene, and its authors have taken an aggressive development track: Gnip appears to have been cobbled together in under five months, with four different variants already circulating — including a sample released in...

Fake 'Windows Update' Installs Cyborg Ransomware

A malicious spam campaign that informs victims it contains a “critical Windows update” instead leads to the installation of Cyborg ransomware, researchers have found. Further, they were able to access its builder, which can be used to create malware variants. The email-based threat, discovered...

ThreatList: WordPress Vulnerabilities Up 30 Percent in 2018

UPDATE Vulnerabilities in popular content management system CMS WordPress are growing at a rapid rate, up 30 percent in 2018, according to new web application bug research released Wednesday. Researchers at Imperva said that in 2018, they continued to see a trend of increasing web application...

Cyber Threat Alliance Releases Cryptomining Whitepaper

This post is authored by Ashlee Benge. Despite the recent devaluation of some cryptocurrencies, illicit cryptocurrency miners remain a lucrative and widespread attack vector in the threat landscape. These miners are easy to deploy, and attackers see it as a quick way to steal other users'...

Effectively Detecting Low Throughput and Malicious DNS Exfiltration

In a previous blog post, we described how the DNS protocol, mainly designed for hostname to IP addresses resolution, can be abused for arbitrary data exchange. Based on throughput i.e., bytes per hour, we distinguish between two classes of data exchange over the DNS protocol. The first of the two...

Locky Gets Updated to ‘Ykcol’, Part of Rapid-Fire Spam Campaigns

Cybercriminals behind the Locky ransomware have revamped the malware’s code three times in 30-day period and blasted out massive spam campaigns. According to researchers at Trustwave, the latest variant of Locky ransomware is called Ykcol that’s Locky spelled backwards and was part of a Sept. 19...

Modified Versions of Nukebot in Wild Since Source Code Leak

Some opportunistic criminals have put the leaked source code for the Nukebot banking Trojan to use, targeting banks in the United States and France with variants of the malware, while another group has adapted it to steal mail client and browser passwords. The leak was disclosed in early March wh...

New POS Malware Uses Mailslots to Avoid Detection

New point-of-sale malware, LogPOS, has been using technology that evades detection by allowing the malware to inject code and act like a client while it shuttles stolen credit card numbers off to its command and control server. The technology, Microsoft Windows’ mailslots, isn’t new by any means...

Kyle and Stan Malvertising Network Nine Times Bigger

The Kyle and Stan malvertising network has a much bigger reach than first reported—about nine times bigger. In the two weeks since Cisco’s first report on the malicious ad distribution campaign, researchers had a chance to look closer at telemetry data, connect more dots and learn that nearly 6,5...

Israeli Think-Tank Site Serves Sweet Orange Exploit

Attackers have compromised the website of a prominent Israel-based, Middle East foreign policy-focused think tank, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs JCPA. On Friday, researchers from Cyphort reported that the site was serving the Sweet Orange exploit kit via drive-by download. At the time o...

New Banking malware 'i2Ninja' being sold via underground Russian Cybercrime Market

Researchers at Trusteer spotted a new banking malware program on the underground Russian cybercrime market, that communicates with attackers over the I2P anonymity network is for sale on underground Russian cybercrime forums. Dubbed 'i2Ninja', malware has most of the features found in other...

Despite Arrests, Android Malware Persists in Japan

Android malware developers in Japan continue to peddle their product across the Internet and through the Google Play marketplace, undeterred by recent arrests in the nation. Over the last few weeks spammers have ramped up circulation of the Android.Enesoluty malware in emails, in addition to...

Malware in your Mouse can act as RAT for Cyber Criminals

Recently we reported about that Symantec provide overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity via its Internet Security Threat Report ISTR, with a exclusive details that 400 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, which is an average of 33 million new variants of...

400 million new variants of malware created in a year

Symantec provide overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity via its Internet Security Threat Report ISTR, with a exclusive details that 400 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, which is an average of 33 million new variants of malware a month, or an average of on...

Microsoft Carries out Nitol Botnet Takedown

A botnet known as Nitol, built on the backs of PCs and laptops loaded with malware somewhere in the supply chain, was taken down by Microsoft. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit was given permission this week by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to take over the 3322.org...

Flashback Creators May Be Raking in $10K a Day

Unprotected users visiting a page hosting the much-discussed Flashback Trojan could be earning some serious cash for the malware’s creators, according to new research from Symantec. In a post to the company’s Security Response blog, Symantec notes the Flashback Trojan could be earning up to $10,0...