Sextortionists Get Past Defenses with Cryptocurrency Shift

A sextortion campaign is making the rounds that attempts to evade detection by demanding payment in cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin. Sextortion operators typically send emails out claiming to have harvested webcam footage or browser histories related to adult content from the recipient’s...

Malicious Infrared X-Ray Android app infecting users in Japan

Researchers are already warning that malware authors developing more sophisticated attack techniques for mobile devices, using encryption and randomization or hiding malicious code in image files. As analyzed by Symantec a malicious Infrared X-Ray Android application, attempting to lure Android...

Cross Platform Trojan builder distributed on underground forums

A Cross platform back door 'Frutas' remote access tool RAT is available for download on many forums from January 2013. This Trojan builder is completely written in Java. Recently, Symantec experts analyse that Frutas RAT allows attackers to create a connect-back client JAR file to run on a...

Use of Java Zero-Day Flaws Tied to Nitro Attack Crew

Researchers say that one of the attack groups using the two new Java zero-day vulnerabilities is the same group that was behind an earlier targeted attack campaign from 2011. That group was traced back to China and was essentially running a spear-phishing campaign, but now the crew, known as Nitr...

Stuxnet Analysis Supports Iran-Israel Connections

VANCOUVER – A Symantec researcher filled in more critical details about the Stuxnet worm here, demonstrating the worm’s ability to take control of programmable logic controllers PLCs by Siemens Inc. and disable machinery connected to them. Liam O’Murchu of Symantec, speaking at the Virus Bulletin...