Necurs Rootkit Infections Way Up

Infections from a nasty bit of malware, generally delivered by the Black Hole Exploit Kit, surged in November, hitting more than 83,000 machines. Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center rates the Necurs rootkit threat as severe. Dubbed a rootkit by Kaspersky Lab, Necurs has many dimensions to it...

64-bit Debian Linux Rootkit with nginx Doing iFrame Injection - Active Check

Debian Squeeze Linux Rootkit with nginx is prone to iframe injection. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:nginx:nginx...

New Linux Rootkit Attacks Internet Users

Security researchers have discovered what appears to be an experimental Linux rootkit designed to infect its highly select victims during a classic drive-by website attack. The malware allows hackers to inject code directly in any infected web page. The new malware, discovered on November 13 of...

Linux Kernel 2.6.x /proc Rootkit Backdoor (Unix/Darbe-A)

Linux Kernel 2.6.x /proc rootkitUnix/Darbe-A Date: ===== 2012-11-21 Introduction: ============= Unix/Darbe-A is a new kernel rootkit based /proc file system., modification is made in order to support kernel 2.6.x Detected ========...

New Linux Rootkit Emerges

A new Linux rootkit has emerged and researchers who have analyzed its code and operation say that the malware appears to be a custom-written tool designed to inject iframes into Web sites and drive traffic to malicious sites for drive-by download attacks. The rootkit is designed specifically for...

Russian Underground Cybercrime market offering sophisticated services

Security firm Trend Micro recent analyses the Russian crimeware markets and has found that malware tools and services range from one-time packages which cost just pennies to sophisticated packages and services which cost purchasers thousands of dollars per month. If you want to buy a botnet it wi...

OpenSSH 6.0p1 Backdoor Patch 1.2 Vulnerability 0day

This patch is for openssh-6.0p1 source which combines a known openssh backdoor and Sebastian Krahmer's openssh.reverse capabilities. Telnet to target openssh server and issue udcgamaimagic string for getting reverse openssh connection. $id: udc-hackssh-v3bajaulaut-v1, 2012/10/28 05:00:50 slash...

ZeroAccess Botnet Cashing in on Click Fraud and Bitcoin Mining

A mid-year switch in communication protocol and distribution strategy is behind a spike in activity from the ZeroAccess botnet, a prolific and malicious ad click fraud network. Researchers at Kindsight Security Lab reported today that ZeroAccess accounts for 29 percent of home network infections ...

Nitol Infections Fall, But Malware Still Popping Up

When Microsoft went after the Nitol botnet in September, one of the key details in the investigation was the fact that much of the botnet was built by pre-loading malware onto laptops during the manufacturing process in China. This was the clearest case yet of the phenomenon of certified pre-owne...

Hardening Linux Security in few seconds using "Server Shield"

Are you running Linux just because you think it's safer than Windows? Think again. Sure, security is a built-in feature and extends right from the Linux kernel to the desktop, but it still leaves enough room to let someone muck about with your /home folder. Linux might be impervious to viruses an...

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...

New Iteration of TDSS/TDL-4 Botnet Uses Domain Fluxing to Avoid Detection

A new version of the TDSS/TDL-4 botnet is rapidly growing, primarily because it’s having great success using an evasion technique known as a domain generation algorithm DGA to avoid detection, researchers at Damballa Security revealed today. The algorithm helps the latest version of the botnet...

New Mac Trojan Dropper Creates Backdoor, Survives Reboots

There’s a new Mac Trojan dropper that uses a silent installation process and it also has the ability to establish backdoor access to infected machines. Security researchers at Intego found samples of the OSX/Crisis malware on the Virus Total website, but it has not yet been found in the wild...

Android Clickjacking Rootkit Demonstrated

Android Clickjacking Rootkit Demonstrated Mobile security researchers have identified an aspect of Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich and earlier models that clickjacking rootkits could exploit. Researchers at NC State in the US have developed a proof-of-concept prototype rootkit that attacks the...

TCP/IP Invisible Userland Unix Backdoor with Reverse Shell

Exploit for unix platform in category local exploits ============================================ TCP/IP Invisible Userland Unix Backdoor with Reverse Shell ============================================ / \ / \ |\ /| | \ / \ | | / / | | | | | /| | | | / / | | / | | | | | / / | / / | | | | \ \ / /...

Attackers Targeting Windows Media Bug With Malware

Security researchers have seen attackers going after the newly patched CVE-2012-0003 vulnerability in the Windows Media Player. The flaw, which was patched earlier this month by Microsoft, is a critical one that can enable remote code execution, and it affects a wide range of Windows systems. Whe...

超级巡警avtsafe.sys <= 1.0.0.4 本地内核拒绝服务漏洞

超级巡警是专门查杀并可辅助查杀各种木马、流氓软件、利用Rootkit技术的各种后门和其它恶意代码间谍软件、蠕虫病毒等等 超级巡警的驱动avtsafe.sys所有挂钩函数没有任何参数校验 超级巡警avtsafe.sys = 1.0.0.4 暂无，请关注官方补丁 http://www.sucop.com/...

New Version of Stoned Bootkit Said to Bypass Windows 8 Secure Boot

A security researcher who has in the past has created low-level rootkits capable of staying resident on an infected machine after reboots, said he has now accomplished the same feat on Windows 8, which hasn’t even hit the shelves yet. Peter Kleissner said he has created a new version of his Stone...

Stuxnet 3.0 to be possibility released at MalCon?

Stuxnet 3.0 to be possibility released at MalCon? Malware coders and security researchers are increasingly looking at MalCon malware convention to show-off their latest creations and research. We were pretty shocked to see in a twitter update today from MalCon, that one of the research paper...

Stuxnet 3.0 to be possibility released at MalCon?

Stuxnet 3.0 to be possibility released at MalCon? Malware coders and security researchers are increasingly looking at MalCon malware convention to show-off their latest creations and research. We were pretty shocked to see in a twitter update today from MalCon, that one of the research paper...