Mac OS X OSX/Flashback Trojan Detection

Using the supplied credentials, Nessus has found evidence that the remote Mac OS X host has been compromised by a trojan in the OSX/Flashback family of trojans. The software is typically installed by means of a malicious Java applet or Flash Player installer. Depending on the variant, the trojan...

Flashback Mac Trojan Hits More than 500K Machines

The Flashback Trojan that has been infecting Mac OSX machines of late appears to have become the most successful piece of Mac-based malware in the short history of such things. Researchers say that there have been upwards of 500,000 Macs infected by the malware, and that number may still rise...

Apple Issues Update to Prevent Flashback Malware from Infecting Mac OS X Machines

Less than a day after reports began surfacing that the Flashback trojan was hitting Mac OS X machines, Apple today released a fix to stop the latest variant of the password-stealing malware. The update closes numerous vulnerabilities in Java 1.6.029, including a serious hole that allowed an...

US Airways Spam Redirects to Blackhole, Zeus Infection

Cybercriminals are targeting US Airways customers with malicious spam emails containing a link that, once clicked, initiates a series of redirects, eventually leading users to a domain hosting the Blackhole exploit kit. The fraudulent email presents itself as a check-in notification from US...

Android Malware as Beware of Chinese called "The Roar of the Pharaoh"

Android Malware as Chinese game "The Roar of the Pharaoh" Security researchers have spotted a bogus Chinese game, that's actually a trojan horse gathering sensitive information from infected devices, next to sending premium-rate SMS messages. It is Chinese game that is original with its rights bu...

Office based Trojan threat for Mac OS X by Chinese hackers

Office based Trojan threat for Mac OS X by Chinese hackers Security company ESET watches the newly found Trojan for OS X establish connections and receive commands to steal information. Earlier this month, researchers from AlienVault and Intego reported a new malware attack targeting Tibetan NGOs...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Shell32.dll in Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7, when using an environment configured with a string such as %APPDATA% or %PROGRAMFILES% in a certain way, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan...

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...

Carberp: It's Not Over Yet

On 20 March, Russian law enforcement agencies announced the arrest of a cybercriminal gang involved in stealing money using the Carberp Trojan. This is very good news, but unfortunately does not mark the end of the Carberp story. Evidently, those arrested were just one of the criminal gangs using...

A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud

A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud A Russian Hacker, who was part of an elaborate Cyber attack that used Zeus Banking Trojan in U.S. visas to move cash stolen from U.S. businesses out of the country was sentenced on March 23 to two years in U.S. federal prison. Nikokay...

Carberp Banking Trojan Scam - 8 Arrested in Russia

Carberp Banking Trojan Scam - 8 Arrested in Russia 8 Men suspected of being involved in the Carberp phishing scam have been arrested in Russia. The men were arrested after a joint investigation by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD and Federal Security Service FSB. According to the MVD,...

Video: College Professor, Students Crack Zeus Trojan Mystery

A segment from last night’s Rock Center, Brian Williams’ TV news magazine, gives the inside scoop on how a college professor and his students helped law enforcement crack one of the largest and most profitable banking Trojan operations around. Reporter Richard Engel sat down with Gary Warner, a...

Russian Agencies Take Down Carberp Gang

A collaborative effort between a Russian security company and two Russian federal agencies has yielded the arrest of eight men allegedly involved in the Carberp Trojan scam, it was announced today. Officials from Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD and Federal Security Service FSB, along wi...

Kaspersky finds Malware that resides in your RAM

Kaspersky finds Malware that resides in your RAM Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a drive-by download attack that evades hard-drive checkers by installing malware that lives in the computer's memory. The 'fileless' bot is more difficult for antivirus software to detect, and resides in...

Duqu's 'Mystery Code' Not New – Just 'Old School'

Researchers around the world put their heads together and solved the identity of ‘mystery code’ in the Duqu Trojan horse program, researchers from Kaspersky Lab announced on Monday. Weeks after announcing that they had discovered computer code of unknown provenance in the innards of the Duqu...

Pro-Syrian Malware Targets, Impedes Activists

The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF warned this week that political activists in Iran and Syria are being targeted in malware attacks disgised as Adobe Flash Player updates on Youtube. In a blog post by the EFF’s Eva Galperin and Morgan Marquis-Boire on Thursday said the attacks occur after...

Trojan Dropper Uses Valid Certificate Issued For Swiss Company

A pair of trojan droppers affiliated with a pay-per-click scam are using valid digital signatures from a certificate that was issued for a Swiss company, according to a report on Securelist. Between December 2011 and March 7, 2012, the Kaspersky Security Network has detected around 5,000 instance...

CVE-2012-0008

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1, 2010, and 2010 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse add-in in an unspecified directory, aka "Visual Studio Add-In Vulnerability."...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1, 2010, and 2010 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse add-in in an unspecified directory, aka "Visual Studio Add-In Vulnerability."...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Expression Design; Expression Design SP1; and Expression Design 2, 3, and 4 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .xpr or .DESIGN file, aka...