Mac OS X, Windows Backdoors Used in New APT Attacks

A new Mac OS X backdoor variant has begun making the rounds online, targeting a Turkic ethnic group in central Asia, according to a post on Securelist’s blog earlier today. Researchers intercepted an advanced persistent threat APT campaign earlier this week that was targeting Uyghur Mac users,...

Syrian Dissidents Hit By Another Wave of Targeted Attacks

One of the attackers who has been targeting Syrian anti-government activists with malware and surveillance tools has returned and upped the ante with the use of the BlackShades RAT, a remote-access tool that gives him the ability to spy on victims machines through keylogging and screenshots. The...

Attacks Targeting US Defense Contractors and Universities Tied to China

UPDATE: Researchers have identified an ongoing series of attacks, possibly emanating from China, that are targeting a number of high-profile organizations, including SCADA security companies, universities and defense contractors. The attacks are using highly customized malicious files to entice...

Stolen Certificates Found in Malware Possibly Targeting Tibetan Groups

The recent trend of attackers using stolen digital certificates to make their malicious executables look legitimate is continuing unabated, with researchers now having come across a series of variants of the Etchfro Trojan that are using certificates taken from several companies and issued by...

Human Rights organisation website Serves Gh0st RAT Trojan

Human Rights organisation website Serves Gh0st RAT Trojan According to the company's Security Labs blog, Amnesty International's United Kingdom website was compromised and hosting the potent Gh0st RAT Trojan earlier this week. Malicious Java code was planted on the site in a bid to push the Gh0st...

Amnesty International Website Compromised, Serving Up Gh0st RAT

Amnesty International’s United Kingdom website was compromised and hosting the potent Gh0st RAT Trojan earlier this week, according to research conducted by security firm Websense. According to the company’s Security Labs blog, visitors to the site over two days this week, May 8 and 9, may have h...

Syrian Government Using Skype, Spyware To Monitor Rebels

In Syria, the crackdown on political activists continues, with reports of pro-Syrians using malware that targets and spies on users attempting to use popular VOIP software Skype. A blog post by the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s EFF Eva Galperin and Morgan Marquis-Boire on Wednesday describes a...

Report: Syrian Government Using Targeted Skype Attacks, Malware To Spy On Dissidents

In a post on the F-Secure Labs blog, Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen says the firm received a hard drive image from a “contact” within Syria who believed that his computer had been compromised. An F-Secure analysis of the drive’s contents and Web history revealed evidence of a targeted atta...

New Trojan For Mac Used In Attacks On Tibetan NGOs

The security firm Alienvault reports that its own research on phishing attacks against non governmental organizations supporting the Tibetan Government in Exile is now being used as bait in a new round of phishing attacks on those same NGOs. The firm warned the public on Monday about a round of...

HBGary's Greg Hoglund: The Art Of RAT Hunting In the Enterprise

Threatpost spent much of the last year chasing after Greg Hoglund, the founder and CEO of HB Gary. First, it was to get his reaction to the bruising encounter his firm had with the hacking group Anonymous. Then it was an endless series of requests on the aftermath of that hack, including the...

DarkComet-RAT v5.1 Released - Remote Administration Tool

DarkComet-RAT v5.1 Released - Remote Administration Tool This new version of the famous darkcomet RAT , a remote management tool created by DarkCoderSc . DarkComet is also considered as the most stable RAT around and it is even regarded more stable than some professional ones. Change Log: - GUI...

Xtreme RAT DLL Hijack

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Pro-Syrian Malware Targets, Impedes Activists

The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF warned this week that political activists in Iran and Syria are being targeted in malware attacks disgised as Adobe Flash Player updates on Youtube. In a blog post by the EFF’s Eva Galperin and Morgan Marquis-Boire on Thursday said the attacks occur after...

Syrian Malware and Darkcomet RAT : They can't blame the Developers

Syrian Malware and Darkcomet RAT : They can't blame the Developers Two days before we reported about The Syrian Malware - programs used to target the Syrian opposition. According to Report, They steal the identities of opposition activists, then impersonate them in online chats, then they gain th...

The Syrian spyware to target the opposition activists

The Syrian spyware to target the opposition activists CNN News reported about malicious programs used to target the Syrian opposition, Its a computer viruses that spy on them and according to report a Syrian opposition group and a former international aid worker whose computer was infected. They...

Poison Ivy RAT Still Giving Users a Rash

The Poison Ivy malware kit is old. It was first seen in 2005, which makes it about 762 years old in Internet years. But that doesn’t mean it’s no longer useful, as evinced by the data collected by Microsoft in a new report on the tool, which shows that it is still in active use and is turning up ...

DarkComet-RAT v4.2 fwb (Firewall bypass)

DarkComet-RAT v4.2 fwb Firewall bypass This version is firewall bypass it will inject to web browsers and bypass firewall rules. Targets are in this order : Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Explorer if all fails normally never then it runs normally. Notice now you can use...

How Bug Bounties Are Like Rat Farming

UPDATED SAN FRANCISCO–It’s become fashionable of late to have people from outside the industry give keynotes at security conferences as a way of providing a fresh perspective or unique insight into what security means. Often, that fresh perspective turns out to be some variation of the “I don’t...

DarkComet-RAT v4.0 Fix1 Released - Fully Cryptable

DarkComet-RAT v4.0 Fix1 Released - Fully Cryptable DarkComet-RAT v4.0 Change log - DarkComet-RAT is now compiled on Delphi XE instead of Delphi 2010. - Synthax highlighter added in remote keylogger. - Multithreading is now more efficient, no more freezing, using a new powerfull and stable...

DarkComet-RAT v4.0 Fix1 Released - Fully Cryptable

DarkComet-RAT v4.0 Fix1 Released - Fully Cryptable DarkComet-RAT v4.0 Change log - DarkComet-RAT is now compiled on Delphi XE instead of Delphi 2010. - Synthax highlighter added in remote keylogger. - Multithreading is now more efficient, no more freezing, using a new powerfull and stable...