How Just Opening an MS Word Doc Can Hijack Every File On Your System

If you receive a mail masquerading as a company's invoice and containing a Microsoft Word file, think twice before clicking on it. Doing so could cripple your system and could lead to a catastrophic destruction. Hackers are believed to be carrying out social engineering hoaxes by adopting...

Dridex Adopting Dyre Tactics, Targeting U.K. Banks

Attackers behind the Dridex Trojan have narrowed their sights on banks based in the United Kingdom frequented by high-value business accounts, researchers claim. When a new version of the Trojan was released two weeks ago, it was promptly followed by a series of infection campaigns that focused o...

Ad Fraud Malware Updating Flash on Infected PCs

Ad fraud malware is one of the more profitable specialties in the cybercrime world, and the attackers who use it often have to adapt their tactics in order to keep the money rolling in. One of the tactics that they have adopted in recent months is that of updating the version of Flash that’s...

Security Questions Not So Secure

The Internet knows a lot about you, including your mother’s maiden name, your favorite food, and what street your first pet grew up on. And, according to some new research from Google, attackers have a good chance of figuring those things out pretty easily, too. The security questions that Google...

Google Research Reveals Profitable, Pervasive Ad Injector Ecosystem

More than five percent of all unique IP addresses accessing Google sites included some kind of ad injector software, and there are more than 50,000 of those injector browser extensions in use today, according to new research from Google. The company conducted the research over the course of sever...

CloudFlare Aims to Defeat Massive DDoS Attacks with Virtual DNS

DDoS attacks have been a persistent problem for the the better part of 20 years, and as ISPs and enterprises have adjusted their defenses, attackers have adapted their tactics. One of the more effective tools in the attackers’ arsenal now is the use of botnets to generate massive numbers of DNS...

Costin Raiu on the Regin APT Malware

Denis Fisher talks with Costin Raiu of the Kaspersky Lab GReAT Team about the discovery of the Regin APT malware, the threat’s targets and tactics, its ability to compromise GSM base stations and its other capabilities. Download: digitalunderground173.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Phony Googlebots Becoming a Real DDoS Attack Tool

Even an enterprise with the harshest, strictest blocking rules in place is likely to leave the door ajar for Google’s search bot software known as a Googlebot. Googlebots crawl websites collecting data along the way in order to build a searchable index that assures a site will be listed and ranke...

Kurt Baumgartner on APT Attacks in the Enterprise

Dennis Fisher talks with Kaspersky Lab security researcher Kurt Baumgartner about the specter of APT attacks in enterprises, what kind of tactics APT attackers are using now and the effect of the Heartbleed openSSL bug on the certificate authority system. Download: digitalunderground151.mp3...

U.S. based Cloud Hosting providers contribute 44% of Malware distribution

U.S. has the top Security Agencies like NSA, FBI to tackle cyber crime and terrorism with their high profile surveillance technologies, but even after that U.S is proudly hosting 44% of the entire cloud based malware distribution. With the enhancement in Internet technology, Cloud computing has...

New Attacks Target Syrian Activists

A new set of malware campaigns targeted at Syrian activists, journalists and NGOs has emerged, and security researchers say that the attackers are employing a variety of tactics, including a new OS X Trojan that could be part of a “false flag” operation. The details of the new round of attacks on...

NetTraveler Attackers Using PRISM Program as Bait

Never let it be said that attackers don’t keep up with the news. The crew behind the NetTraveler cyberespionage attacks is now using the news about the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program as bait in a new spear-phishing campaign. Security researcher Brandon Dixon of 9bplus came across a malicious...

Why Watering Hole Attacks Work

Information security is littered with bad analogies. And none sounds sillier than a watering hole attack, which plays off the tactic that dominant animals use when stalking food by loitering at a watering hole. Rather than chase their prey, a lion will wait for prey to come to it. Hackers are doi...

Size, Funding of Bank DDoS Attacks Grow in Third Phase

The resumption this week of distributed denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks brought not only more cost and disruption to financial institutions trying keep online services available, but it also raised new questions about the funding and true motives behind the attacks. A number of...

Rodpicom Botnet spreading via Skype and MSN Messenger

Malwares are getting updated during the age of social networking. FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered a new malware called 'Rodpicom Botnet' that spreads via messaging applications such as Skype and MSN Messenger. Dubbed W32/Rodpicom.A - Rodpicom Botnet sends a message to the victim with ...

Rodpicom Botnet spreading via Skype and MSN Messenger

Malwares are getting updated during the age of social networking. FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered a new malware called 'Rodpicom Botnet' that spreads via messaging applications such as Skype and MSN Messenger. Dubbed W32/Rodpicom.A - Rodpicom Botnet sends a message to the victim with ...

Google's Morgan Marquis-Boire on Online Spying

Surveillance operations by various governments against activists have become a major issue in some countries, and Morgan Marquis-Boire detailed the tools and tactics these regimes use...

Experts Say CEOs Need to Get Handle on Cyberespionage Problem

NEW YORK–The long list of high-profile cyberespionage and cybercrime attacks that have surfaced in the last couple of years has led to broad discussions in the security community, government circles and elsewhere about the scope of the problem. Those discussions now are just starting to reach int...

Android Malware that can DDoS Attacks from your smartphone

The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web has found a new malicious program for Android which allows hacker groups to carry out mobile denial of service attacks. While it's not entirely clear how the Trojan is spread, researchers suspect that the attackers use social engineering tactics since the...

Businesses Remain Scared of Spear-Phishing as Attackers Study Behavior

Scared is a strong word, but the reality, according to a Websense analysis by Patrik Runald, is that spear-phishers, like the ones that compromised a White House network last week, are implementing new evasion tactics, fundamentally changing their attack strategies, and revolutionizing the target...