Malware that turns computers into Bitcoin miners

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins. The malware, identified as Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt. Bitcoin is a non-governmental, fully-digital currency based...

Skype Malware Stealing Victims' Processing Power to Mine Bitcoins

Bitcoin may still be a virtual unknown quantity for most people, but the digital currency has not escaped the notice of attackers, many of whom are turning their attention to finding ways to use the system for their own gains. The attacks against Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox and hack of Instawallet...

Code injection

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service electricity consumption by mining a block to create a nonstandard Bitcoin transaction containing multiple OPCHECKSIG script opcodes...

CVE-2013-2292

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service electricity consumption by mining a block to create a nonstandard Bitcoin transaction containing multiple OPCHECKSIG script opcodes...

World's largest platinum producer 'Anglo American' hacked by Anonymous

Anonymous, the Internet hacktivist hacked into 'Anglo American' and dump their complete database online. The dump includes the Personal details of 122 investors, and more than 400 registered share holders details and other database also. Anglo American is a British multinational mining company...

World's largest platinum producer 'Anglo American' hacked by Anonymous

Anonymous, the Internet hacktivist hacked into 'Anglo American' and dump their complete database online. The dump includes the Personal details of 122 investors, and more than 400 registered share holders details and other database also. Anglo American is a British multinational mining company...

Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media

A multinational security firm 'Raytheon' has secretly developed software called 'RIOT', capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future Behavior by mining data from social networking websites. The multi billion dollar company, didn't want its concept video revealed, but the Guardian...

Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media

A multinational security firm 'Raytheon' has secretly developed software called 'RIOT', capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future Behavior by mining data from social networking websites. The multi billion dollar company, didn't want its concept video revealed, but the Guardian...

Tor-Powered Botnet Linked to Malware Coder's AMA on Reddit

In the process of analyzing a seemingly new and fairly small botnet called Skynet, Rapid7 security researchers determined that this was precisely the same network described by its creator in a particularly bold ‘Ask Me Anything’ AMA on the social news site Reddit earlier this year. Claudio...

UK Intelligence recruiting brilliant minds for eavesdropping social networks

Government eavesdropping and security agency GCHQ is developing new tools to sift through them for nuggets of useful data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest. All of these are the source of valuable intelligence that the UK's intelligence agencies want to know about. During a vis...

9 million PCs infected with ZeroAccess botnet

In recent months, we've seen the rootkit family Win32/Sirefef and Win64/Sirefef also known as ZeroAccess Botnet update its command and control protocol and grow to infect more computers while connecting to over one million computers globally. Before, disclosed that it creates its own hidden...

Your Friend can help Investigators to Access your Facebook Profile

If you're not already particularly picky about who you friend on Facebook, you might want to think about rejiggering those privacy settings. It's not the backdoor access that the FBI has been pushing for, but US District Judge William Pauley III has now ruled that it and other law enforcement...

Bafruz Backdoor Disables Antivirus, Intercepts Communications With Social Media Sites

There’s a new family of malware that’s using a complex set of capabilities to disable antimalware and listen in on sessions between users and some social networks. Bafruz is essentially a backdoor trojan that also is creating a peer-to-peer network of infected computers. This month’s Microsoft...

Infographic: How Mobile Apps Invade Your Privacy

Combine the rapid adoption of mobile devices with the behavior of some companies developing applications for them, and what do you get? A pocket-sized, portable privacy liability. Veracode explores the consequences of rampant data-mining and the importance of finding the balance between function...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...

oday or exp mining techniques overview-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A lot of times we on various 0day or exp with strong passion, indeed, the hand grip of such powerful weapons of destruction will make the target's combat becomes very smooth, but the problem is that not everyone can grasp the latest 0day, and to be clear that there is a lot we do not know the 0da...

At FBI's Cyber Crime Conference: Chest Thumping And Head Scratching In Equal Measure

Long content to talk about the “what” behind cyber crime, the nation’s top computer security cops descended on New York City this week for the FBI’s International Conference on Cyber Crime ready to talk about “who.” But while discussions of tools and techniques for identifying criminal actors...

Oracle Database Multiple Vulnerabilities (July 2007 CPU)

The remote Oracle database server is missing the July 2007 Critical Patch Update CPU and therefore is potentially affected by security issues in the following components : - Advanced Queuing - DataGuard - JavaVM - Oracle Data Mining - Oracle Text - PL/SQL - Rules Manager - Spatial - SQL Compiler...

Oracle Database Multiple Vulnerabilities (October 2008 CPU)

The remote Oracle database server is missing the October 2008 Critical Patch Update CPU and therefore is potentially affected by security issues in the following components : - Core RDBMS - Oracle Application Express - Oracle Data Capture - Oracle Data Mining - Oracle OLAP - Oracle Spatial -...

Oracle Database Multiple Vulnerabilities (October 2009 CPU)

The remote Oracle database server is missing the October 2009 Critical Patch Update CPU and therefore is potentially affected by security issues in the following components : - Advanced Queuing - Application Express - Auditing - Authentication - Core RDBMS - Data Mining - Data Pump - Network...