Rep. Bono Mack Requests More Data on Operation Shady RAT

Rep. Mary Bono Mack, chair of the influential House committee that oversees information security, is asking for more information about the Shady RAT attacks that McAfee publicized last week, saying that the “details of the report are alarming at the least,” and asking that researchers brief membe...

Shady Rat Attackers Hid Code in Digital Images

More information about last week’s “Shady Rat” hacks continues to be uncovered, including reports that the attackers behind the hack used digital images to obscure their activities. Researchers at Symantec analyzing the attacks found images were hiding code that enabled communication back and for...

Report: China Suffered 500K Cyber Attacks Last Year

The Chinese government claims they’ve seen nearly 500,000 cyber attacks designed to hit their computers over the past year, with the U.S. and India among the countries believed to be responsible. A report issued Tuesday by the nation’s chief computer security monitoring network, the National...

Study: Operation Shady Rat Revealed

Global 2000 companies can be split into two categories, according to the author of a new white paper from McAfee PDF; those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t yet know. “The only organizations that are exempt from this threat,” writes the paper’s author, Dmitri Alperovitch,...

Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered

Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered When the history of 2011 is written, it may well be remembered as the Year of the Hacks. McAfee publish a new report that it says is one of the most comprehensive analysis ever revealed of victim profiles from a five-year long...

Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered

Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered When the history of 2011 is written, it may well be remembered as the Year of the Hacks. McAfee publish a new report that it says is one of the most comprehensive analysis ever revealed of victim profiles from a five-year long...

Apple Taps Security Experts Ahead Of Lion OS Release

Apple is distributing copies of its yet unreleased OS X 10.7 Lion operating system to a handful of security experts, including former Pwn2Own winner, Charlie Miller, who claims this is the first time Apple has taken such actions, according to a report from PC World. The move, believed to be a fir...

New Trojan Targets Mac OS X Users

Researchers have found a new piece of malware that’s designed to attack the Mac OS X platform, an occurrence that’s rare enough still that each new discovery is noted separately. The new Trojan is known as the Black Hole RAT remote administration tool and is capable of giving a remote attacker...

BlackHole RAT : Mac OS X backdoor Trojan !

'BlackHole' is the latest remote administration tool RAT and is available both in Windows and Mac. Hacktool such RAT employs client-server program that communicates to its victim's machine through its trojan server. The server application is installed on the victim while the client application is...

DarkComet Remote Administration Tool v3.0 !

DarkComet-RAT Remote Administration Tool is software design to control in the best condition and comfort possible any kind of Microsoft Windows machine since Windows 2000. This software allow you to make hundreds of functions stealthy and remotely without any kind of authorization in the remote...

CBI Website Hacked by Pakistani Cyber Army, NIC Security Questioned

The recent hacking of the Central Bureau of Investigation's CBI website by a group called the 'Pakistani Cyber Army' has raised concerns about the security measures of servers maintained by the National Informatics Centre NIC. The NIC is responsible for government server maintenance. While the NI...

10 Hosting Services Hacked By "Rat Techie"

10 Hosting Services Hacked By "Rat Techie" , Here is the list : Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.culture-buzz.cn

Security researcher The Rat, has submitted on 11/01/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.culture-buzz.cn, which at the time of submission ranked 7892719 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 01/07/2009. It is...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at ambafrance-us.org

Security researcher The Rat, has submitted on 11/01/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting ambafrance-us.org, which at the time of submission ranked 819109 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 17/10/2010. It is...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at benchmail.benchmark.fr

Security researcher The Rat, has submitted on 11/01/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting benchmail.benchmark.fr, which at the time of submission ranked 74929 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 06/12/2011. It is...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.journalchretien.net

Security researcher The Rat, has submitted on 11/01/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.journalchretien.net, which at the time of submission ranked 771191 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 17/10/2010. It is...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.core-techs.fr

Security researcher The Rat, has submitted on 11/01/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.core-techs.fr, which at the time of submission ranked 334423 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 06/12/2011. It is...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.smile.fr

Security researcher The Rat, has submitted on 11/01/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.smile.fr, which at the time of submission ranked 37178 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 06/12/2011. It is currently...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.eurosinosourcing.com.cn

Security researcher The Rat, has submitted on 11/01/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.eurosinosourcing.com.cn, which at the time of submission ranked 0 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 17/10/2010. It is...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.consulfrance-atlanta.org

Security researcher The Rat, has submitted on 11/01/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.consulfrance-atlanta.org, which at the time of submission ranked 2026439 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 13/06/2010...