Over 500 Android Apps On Google Play Store Found Spying On 100 Million Users

Over 500 different Android apps that have been downloaded more than 100 million times from the official Google Play Store found to be infected with a malicious ad library that secretly distributes spyware to users and can perform dangerous operations. Since 90 per cent of Android apps is free to...

Windows BITS 'Notification' Feature Used to Deliver Malware

Attackers have found a new way to exploit the Widows Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS which is being used to infect and reinfect targeted PCs with malware even after the initial infection has been removed. According to security researchers at Dell SecureWorks, attackers are exploiting...

Stop Scanning My Macro

FireEye Labs detected an interesting evasion strategy in two recent, large Dridex campaigns. These campaigns changed the attachment file-type and location of malicious logic in an attempt to avoid scanners. Overview Both campaigns used an invoice theme and came from a wide variety of sending...

Holiday Season 2015 Email Campaign

The holiday season is a time when many people go on vacation or at least get much-needed downtime from work, but that is not always the case with attackers. To better understand the threats we face during “the most wonderful time of the year,” FireEye Labs has been collecting data on the most...

'Kyle and Stan' Malvertising Network Targets Windows and Mac Users

A malvertising network that has been operating since at least May has been able to place malicious ads on a number of high-profile sites, including Amazon and YouTube and serves a unique piece of malware to each victim. The network, dubbed Kyle and Stan by the Cisco researchers who analyzed its...

Government Surveillance Could Targeted Automated Updates

SAN FRANCISCO – As more Web-based services are encrypted, privacy advocates are concerned the next wave of aggressive surveillance activity could target automated update services that essentially provide Internet companies root access to machines. Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the...

Cutwail Spam Botnet Feels Effect of Blackhole Takedown

The arrest of alleged hacker Paunch and the subsequent dismantling of the Blackhole Exploit Kit operation has cybercrime groups scrambling to find another automated means of delivering exploits. In the meantime, some are settling for old-school tactics that include infected email attachments and ...

Breach incident

News Breach incident Share December 11th, 2013 At Opera, we strive to be open, and we want to continue this tradition, by sharing with you what happens here. High profile companies like Opera are under continuous attack by hackers trying to break into their systems, and we want to tell you about ...

Attackers Shifting to Delivering Unknown Malware Via FTP and Web Pages

The bulk of “unknown” malware is being delivered to systems via Web-based attacks, proxies and FTP sessions, according to a study released by Palo Alto Networks this week. The study dubbed “The Modern Malware Review,” found more than 26,000 malware samples, and focuses on what the firm calls...

Trojan.Milicenso Print Bomb - Printer Trojan cause massive printing

Trojan.Milicenso - Printer Trojan cause massive printing A Trojan that sends printers crazy, making them print pages of garbled nonsense until all the paper has been used up, has seen a spike in activity.Symantec detected the Trojan.Milicenso across various countries, but the worst hit regions...

Outdated Assumptions

The term “targeted attack” gets thrown around an awful lot nowadays. In fact I’m guessing you’ll be hard pressed to find many public breach disclosures that make it to the news that aren’t labeled as having been “targeted”. It reminds me of an important quote from the character Inigo Montoya in T...

WHERE'S THE CA$H: Internet Explorer 6.00. Outlook Express 6.00

Saturday, July 27, 2002 Trivial lead-up to yet another silent delivery and installation of an executable on the target computer using Outlook Express 6. This can be achieved combining several past possibilities, specifically the following: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1033...