When coin miners evolve, Part 1: Exposing LemonDuck and LemonCat, modern mining malware infrastructure

Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covers the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 is a deep dive on the attacker behavi...

Stealthy Malware Flies Under AV Radar with Advanced Obfuscation

Researchers warn hackers are putting a new spin on old injection techniques and successfully end-running endpoint protection. They are tracking a campaign, that kicked off in January, that is still going strong exploiting weaknesses in web browsers. The objective is to hide in the background of...

New Version of Flame Malware Discovered

Flame was discovered in 2012, linked to Stuxnet, and believed to be American in origin. It has recently been linked to more modern malware through new analysis tools that find linkages between different software. Seems that Flame did not disappear after it was discovered, as was previously though...

Osiris Banking Trojan Displays Modern Malware Innovation

After staying dormant for few years, the Kronos banking trojan resurfaced in July in a form dubbed Osiris. A wider analysis of how the banking trojan is evolving shows innovative development on the part of its authors, with an eye to broader malware trends. Osiris first appeared in July in three...

Marc Maiffret on Modern Malware, Code Red and the State of Security Research

Dennis Fisher talks with researcher Marc Maiffret of FireEye about the evolution of modern malware, the discovery of the Code Red worm and how far security research has come in the last 10 years. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

Google launching members-only security forum

internetnews.com’s Kenneth Corbin has the scoop on plans by Google to launch a members-only security forum for businesses, law enforcement, government agencies and others to combat malware and fraud on the Web. In addition to Google, the Internet Security Community will draw participation from...