Kronos Banking Trojan Surfaces After Years of Silence

The Kronos banking trojan is back from the malware dustbin. After years of lying dormant, hackers have reworked the underlying code and are actively targeting victims in Germany, Japan and Poland. The latest variant has incorporated a new command-and-control feature designed to work with the Tor...

How the Rise of Cryptocurrencies Is Shaping the Cyber Crime Landscape: The Growth of Miners

Introduction Cyber criminals tend to favor cryptocurrencies because they provide a certain level of anonymity and can be easily monetized. This interest has increased in recent years, stemming far beyond the desire to simply use cryptocurrencies as a method of payment for illicit tools and...

Data of millions of Japanese sold on underground hacking forums

By Waqas A cybercriminal operating from outside China was found to be This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Data of millions of Japanese sold on underground hacking forums...

A Five-Year Journey: How Trend Micro Helped Bring Down Scan4You

Trend Micro has always had a close relationship with law enforcement around the globe, because we believe that only together can we make the world a safer place in which to exchange digital information. As the business of cybercrime continues to grow and evolve, so must our response. That’s why w...

PoS Malware ‘TreasureHunter’ Source Code Leaked

Source code for the point-of-sale malware called TreasureHunter has been leaked, according to researchers who said the release offers them unique insights into the malware, but also gives them pause as they brace for expected variants. Not just was TreasureHunter’s source code leaked, but so was...

Boutique Shops Offering Rewards Points Pop Up on the Dark Web

Cybercriminal interest in stolen data is not solely limited to financial or personally identifiable information. The exploitation of rewards-points programs, especially those associated with travel, is also on the radar screen for the bad guys. To cater to this interest, a series of boutique stor...

Registered at SSA.GOV? Good for You, But Keep Your Guard Up

KrebsOnSecurity has long warned readers to plant your own flag at the my Social Security online portal of the U.S. Social Security Administration SSA -- even if you are not yet drawing benefits from the agency -- because identity thieves have been registering accounts in peoples' names and...

Our Analysis of 1,019 Phishing Kits

In recent years phishing activity has grown rapidly, with thousands of phishing sites popping for a virtual moment that last weeks, days or even hours, before becoming ineffective—either getting blacklisted by security providers, or brought down by internet providers and authorities, or in most...

Name+DOB+SSN=FAFSA Data Gold Mine

KrebsOnSecurity has sought to call attention to online services which expose sensitive consumer data if the user knows a handful of static details about a person that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground, such as name, date of birth, and Social Security Number. Perhaps the most...

Hacker Distributes Backdoored IoT Vulnerability Scanning Script to Hack Script Kiddies

Nothing is free in this world. If you are searching for free hacking tools on the Internet, then beware—most freely available tools, claiming to be the swiss army knife for hackers, are nothing but a scam. For example, Cobian RAT and a Facebook hacking tool that we previously reported on The Hack...

Hackers Prepping IOTroop Botnet with Exploits

Hackers moved one step closer to launching full-scale DDoS attacks using millions of IoT devices herded into the botnet known as Reaper or IOTroop. Researchers at NewSky Security warn that hackers are swapping scripts on forums that can scan the internet for vulnerable IoT devices and dump defaul...

FormBook Malware Targets U.S. Defense Contractors, Aerospace and Manufacturing Sectors

Attackers spreading new malware called FormBook are singling out aerospace firms, defense contractors and some manufacturing organizations in the United States and South Korea. According to researchers at FireEye, FormBook was spotted in several high-volume distribution campaigns targeting the U....

Nearly half of Apple iOS users not to upgrade to the latest version easily by a known high-risk flaws vulnerability bug violations-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

the iOS system has always been to its good safety deep to give a large user of trust, in particular its security into the level rate with Android than there is a significant upper hand. But according to baidu security Labs hundreds of millions of the Taiwan Strait within the iOS equipment system...

Booters with Chinese Characteristics: The Rise of Chinese Online DDoS Platforms

This post was authored by Dave LiebenbergIn the past few months, Talos has observed an uptick in the number of Chinese websites offering online DDoS services. Many of these websites have a nearly identical layout and design, offering a simple interface in which the user selects a target’s host,...

Modified Versions of Nukebot in Wild Since Source Code Leak

Some opportunistic criminals have put the leaked source code for the Nukebot banking Trojan to use, targeting banks in the United States and France with variants of the malware, while another group has adapted it to steal mail client and browser passwords. The leak was disclosed in early March wh...

New Point-of-Sale Malware LockPoS Hitches Ride with FlokiBot

Botnets distributing FlokiBot point-of-sale malware have awoken from months of slumber and are back in business spewing a new malware dubbed LockPoS. Researchers say the malware is still flying under the radar of many antivirus and intrusion detection systems because it’s so new. Currently, LockP...

Russian Financial Cybercriminal Gets Over 9 Years In U.S. Prison

A 29-year-old Russian-born, Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to over nine years in prison for running botnets of half a million computers and stealing and trafficking tens of thousands of credit card numbers on exclusive Russian-speaking cybercriminal forums. Alexander Tverdokhlebov was...

beaufortunderground.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://beaufortunderground.com/list.jsp?t=%3Csvg/onload=alert/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 29.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP website...

Do you think web passwords are the weakest link in security? Indeed they are.

Between 500K and 500M sets of credentials have been compromised over the recent years, according to various sources. Just last week, a compromise of an educational service Edmondo has been reported to expose as many as 78M user accounts. At the same time, individual users are exposed to so many...

HandBrake for Mac Compromised with Proton Spyware

The handlers of the open source HandBrake video transcoder are warning anyone who recently downloaded the Mac version of the software that they’re likely infected with malware. HandBrake warned users on Saturday of a compromise of one of its mirror download servers, and said anyone who grabbed th...