Citadel Used in Attacks Against Petrochemical Companies

Cybercrime tools continue to crossover into the realm of nation-state targeted attacks, with the latest example being a variant of the Citadel banking Trojan used in attacks against petrochemical companies in the Middle East. The attacks took place within the past few months, said researchers at...

Chinese Groups Found Targeting Govt, Military Systems

Two Chinese cyber espionage campaigns are working in tandem in hopes of sniffing out trade secrets from surrounding nations. Researchers from FireEye outlined information about the two attack groups yesterday in advance of a more comprehensive report. One of the groups, Moafree, operates out of t...

Salesforce Warns Customers of Dyreza Banker Trojan Attacks

Salesforce.com is warning its customers that the Dyreza banker Trojan is now believed to be targeting some of the company’s users. The Trojan, which has the ability to bypass SSL, typically goes after customers of major banks, but seems to be expanding its reach. Dyreza is relatively new among th...

CVE-2014-3910

Emurasoft EmFTP allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file that is launched during an attempt to read a similarly named file that lacks a filename extension...

Code injection

Emurasoft EmFTP allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file that is launched during an attempt to read a similarly named file that lacks a filename extension...

CVE-2014-3910

Emurasoft EmFTP allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file that is launched during an attempt to read a similarly named file that lacks a filename extension...

Neverquest Trojan Adds New Targets, Capabilities

Researchers have found some recent modifications to the Neverquest banking Trojan that indicate the malware is no longer just targeting online banking sites, but also is going after social media, retailers and some game portals. The new changes also give the Trojan the ability to insert extra...

CVE-2014-5453

Ubisoft Uplay PC before 4.6.1.3217 use weak permissions Everyone: Full Control for the program installation directory %PROGRAMFILES%\Ubisoft Game Launcher, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file...

Design/Logic Flaw

Ubisoft Uplay PC before 4.6.1.3217 use weak permissions Everyone: Full Control for the program installation directory %PROGRAMFILES%\Ubisoft Game Launcher, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file...

Updated catfish package fixes CVE-2014-2096

Updated catfish package fixes security vulnerabilities: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Catfish allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse bin/catfish.py in the current working directory CVE-2014-2096. Additionally, the update adds a missing requirement for the...

Updated catfish package fixes CVE-2014-2093

Updated catfish package fixes security vulnerability: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Catfish allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse catfish.py in the current working directory CVE-2014-2093. Additionally, the update fixes the application icon symlink and a crash when som...

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A remote administration tool a RAT is a piece of software that allows a remote "operator" to control a system as if he has physical access to that system. While desktop sharing and remote administration have many legal uses, "RAT" software is usually associated with criminal or malicious activity...

NewGOZ Gameover Zeus Botnet Rebuilds

It didn’t take long for an updated version of GameOver Zeus to make some headway in rebuilding itself. Research published today from Arbor Networks demonstrates that cybercriminals behind GameOver Zeus, which was taken down by law enforcement in early June, have renewed the botnet with at least...

CVE-2014-2816

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Gold and SP1 and SharePoint Foundation 2013 Gold and SP1 allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse app that executes a custom action in the context of the SharePoint extensibility model, aka "SharePoint Page Content Vulnerability."...

CVE-2014-3020

install.sh in the Embedded WebSphere Application Server eWAS 7.0 before FP33 in IBM Tivoli Integrated Portal TIP 2.1 and 2.2 sets world-writable permissions for the installRoot directory tree, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program...

CVE-2014-3020

install.sh in the Embedded WebSphere Application Server eWAS 7.0 before FP33 in IBM Tivoli Integrated Portal TIP 2.1 and 2.2 sets world-writable permissions for the installRoot directory tree, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program...

'Real Footage of Malaysian Flight MH 17 Shot Down' Facebook Spam Spreads Malware

A distasteful trend among the cyber crooks have began these days that they left no occasion, either good or bad, to snatch users’ financial information in order to make money as well as spread malware to victimize users. The tragedy of the crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is no exception for...

New Kronos Banking Malware Advertised On Russian Forums

Criminals are advertising a new banking Trojan on Russian forums, one going for a hefty price and being marketed as a method of evading detection and analysis. To date, however, security researchers have yet to obtain a sample of Kronos, which is available on a few forums for pre-order at a cost ...

After Takedown, GameOver Zeus Banking Trojan Returns Again

A month after the FBI and Europol took down the GameOver Zeus botnet by seizing servers and disrupting the botnet’s operation, security researchers have unearthed a new variant of malware based explicitly on the same Gameover ZeuS that compromised users’ computers and collectively formed a massiv...

'Tinba' Banking Malware Source Code Leaked Online

The source code for the smallest but sophisticated banking Trojan Tinba has been leaked through an online post in an underground forum, which make it available for anyone who knows where to look for free malware generation tools. The files posted on the closed russian underground forum turned out...