MacControl Trojan Being Used in Targeted Attacks Against OS X Users

Welcome to the age of targeted attacks, Mac users. Perhaps having grown tired of owning Windows machines around the world for the last few years, attackers in China now have taken up the challenge of going after Macs with the same kind of targeted attack tactics that have served them so well in t...

Cyber Criminals Selling Millions of U.S military email addresses

Cyber Criminals Selling Millions of U.S military email addresses Web based underground market service currently selling Millions of harvested U.S government and U.S military harvested emails addresses to potential spammers, and find out just how easy it is to purchase that kind of data within the...

Fake Facebook Profile For NATO Senior Commander Used To Phish Senior Brass

A fake Facebook profile for NATO Senior Commander James Stavridis, a US Navy Admiral, was used to trick senior officers in both the U.S. and British military to becoming friends. The spear phishing attack is of unknown origin and is believed to have divulged a wide range of personal information o...

Adobe Issues Emergency Fix For Flash Player Vulnerabilities

Adobe on Monday issued two emergency fixes for critical security vulnerabilities in its Flash Player product. The vulnerabilities, if left unpatched, could allow an attacker to take control of a system running a vulnerable version of Flash Player. Adobe on Monday issued two emergency fixes for...

Attackers Target CVE-2012-0754 Adobe Flash Bug

An Adobe Flash vulnerability fixed last month is being used in targeted attacks right now, with attackers attempting to persuade victims to open a malicious Word document that contains the payload for the Flash bug. The vulnerability has been patched for nearly a month, but history has shown that...

flash-player to 11.1.102.62 (critical)

flash-player was updated to the security update to 11.1.102.62. It fixes lots of security issues, some already exploited in the wild. Details can be found on: https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-03.h tml These vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attack...

Adobe Fixes Flash Player XSS Flaw, Warns Of Ongoing Attacks

One day after the company released its monthly patch update, Adobe was out again with an emergency update to its Flash Player software, fixing seven holes, six that could lead to remote code execution and one that’s already being exploited in the wild. The company released patch APSB12-03 on...

Boldizar Bencsath

Boldizar Bencsath discussed several recent targeted attacks, including Duqu, an attack he experienced firsthand. Bencsath led a small group of researchers in September 2011 in the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security CrSyS of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, to identify...

Blackhole Exploit Kit's Dominance On Infected Hosts Could Push Rivals To the Cloud

The Blackhole exploit kit has a near monopoly on infected Web pages, according to Web security firm M86’s latest Security Labs Report, issued today. PDF The bi-annual report, which covers the last half of 2011, July to December, describe Blackhole as the source of a whopping 95 percent of all the...

Ongoing Targeted Attack Campaign Going After Defense, Aerospace Industries

Researchers have identified a strain of malware that’s being used in a string of targeted attacks against defense contractors, government agencies and other organizations by leveraging exploits against zero-day vulnerabilities. The attacks may have been going on since 2009 in some form and the...

Adobe to Patch Reader Zero Day on Friday

Adobe plans to release a patch on Friday for the zero-day vulnerability in its Reader and Acrobat applications on Windows that is currently being used in some targeted attacks. The patches for the applications running on other platforms will be released next month during the next scheduled patch...

More Details of Sykipot Exploits Of Adobe Reader Flaw Surface

More evidence is beginning to emerge that the Adobe Reader zero-day bug revealed recently is being used in targeted attacks against companies and federal agencies. Researchers recently have come across fresh samples of malware exploiting the vulnerability by using files crafted to draw in employe...

Costin Raiu on Duqu, Stuxnet and Targeted Attacks

Dennis Fisher talks with malware researcher Costin Raiu about the investigation into Duqu, the likelihood that it was written by the same team as Stuxnet, whether a government is behind its development and what mistakes the authors made. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

Stars Attack on Iran Was Early Version of Duqu

A few months after the hysteria around Stuxnet had died down, officials in Iran announced in April that some sensitive systems in the government’s networks had been attacked by a new piece of malware, known then as Stars. It now appears that attack was, in fact, the first appearance of an early...

Microsoft Releases Workaround For Kernel Flaw Used By Duqu

Microsoft has released a workaround for the Windows kernel zero-day vulnerability exploited by the Duqu malware, and said that it is working on a permanent patch, but didn’t specify a timeline for its release. The vulnerability is a serious one that can lead to remote code execution on vulnerable...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory for Vulnerability in TrueType Font Parsing

Microsoft has released Microsoft Security Advisory 2639658 to address a vulnerability in the Win32k TrueType font parsing engine. By convincing a user to open a malicious email attachment, an attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerability and execute arbitrary code. Microsoft has indicated th...

Symantec Traces Attacks on Chemical Industry To 20 Year Old Chinese Hacker-For-Hire

A report from Symantec Corp. details a roving campaign of intellectual property theft controlled by a 20 year-old hacker for hire that relied on phishing e-mail, some old malware and command and control operations based in China. The company on Tuesday unveiled research on the targeted attacks,...

Duqu Trojan found in Indian Server

Duqu Trojan found in Indian Server Last week we update you about Duqu when Symantec said it had found a mysterious computer virus that contained code similar to Stuxnet, a piece of malware believed to have wreaked havoc on Iran's nuclear program. Two workers at a web-hosting company called Web...

Security Woes Deepen: Japanese Embassies Targeted With Malware

There are new reports that dozens of diplomatic computers Japanese embassies abroad were infected with malware this Summer. The news comes on the heels of recent news about malicious software attacks on Japanese defense contractors and the Japanese Parliament. A report in a local Japanese...

Analysis: Duqu Targets Certificate Authorities

With virus researchers scrambling to decode a new piece of malware that is based on the code of the Stuxnet worm, an analyst at McAfee is speculating that the new worm, Duqu, may have been created to target certificate authorities. Writing on McAfee’s research blog, Guilherme Venere and Peter Szo...