Researchers Uncover Polymorphic AutoRun Worm

W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb-h is an evolved, virtual machine-aware AutoRun worm that makes use of obfuscation and polymorphic techniques in order to evade detection and infect removable media and mounted network shares, according to McAfee. Researchers have seen an increase in samples for the year-old...

Exploit Code, Metasploit Module Out for Ruby on Rails Flaws

Just two days after the disclosure of a string of serious vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails, researchers have released proof-of-concept exploit code for a couple of the flaws and the team at Metasploit have released a module for the penetration testing framework that exploit one of the bugs, as...

2012: What Have We Learned

There’s a natural inclination for people at the end of each year to look back, take stock and try to draw some grand meaning or life lessons out of the events of the past 12 months. This is a particularly risky and difficult thing to do in the security industry, given its inherent unpredictabilit...

Stuxnet is Back ! Iran reported another cyber attack

Iran claims to have repelled a fresh cyber attack on its industrial units in a southern province. In the last few years, various Iranian industrial, nuclear and government bodies have recently come under growing cyber attacks, widely believed to be designed and staged by the US and Israel. A powe...

Facebook Security, FBI Take Down Butterfly Botnet, Arrest 10

Facebook’s security team is being lauded by the FBI for its role the arrest of 10 individuals accused of spreading banking malware on the social networking site and collecting more than $850 million from fraudulent transactions. The arrests were carried out yesterday in the U.S., U.K., the Balkan...

Tumblr Repairs Defacements After Worm Hits Thousands of Accounts

A malware attack against the Tumblr blogging platform has been stifled, but not before tens of thousands of pages were defaced with a racist taunt by a group of Internet trolls known as GNAA. A post on the Tumblr staff blog yesterday said engineers had identified the source of the problem, remove...

Tumblr Worm affects thousands blogs, spam offensive articles

A notorious group of Internet trolls says it has unleashed a worm that has littered Tumblr blogs with inflammatory and racist posts. A massive bug affecting some 8,600 unique Tumblr users. Gay Nigger Association of America, took responsibility for the attack. The infected post begins: "Dearest...

Worm Tries AutoRun, Then Social Engineering to Infect

Sophos and TrendMicro, and anumber of other security firms, are reporting a dramatic increase in the prevalence of a worm using AutoRun and social engineering to proliferate. If you thought Microsoft solved the AutoRun problem, you aren’t alone. They tried to shut it down after it was famously an...

typo3 -- Multiple vulnerabilities in TYPO3 Core

Typo Security Team reports: TYPO3 Backend History Module - Due to missing encoding of user input, the history module is susceptible to SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting. A valid backend login is required to exploit this vulnerability. Credits go to Thomas Worm who discovered and reported the...

HackerProof : Your Guide To PC Security

With over 140,000 known computer viruses and 85,000,000 spam emails sent out each day, the likelihood of your PC coming into contact with malware such as viruses, worms, and spyware is almost guaranteed. It is very important to secure your computer just like you would secure your house or car. Yo...

Dorkbot Now Worming Its Way through Skype

The Dorkbot worm that fooled many a Facebook and Twitter user is now socially engineering Skype users into downloading the malware, whose payload now includes a mechanism to lock down machines. Various antivirus and security companies are reporting the latest iteration rummages through an infecte...

Ransomware malware targeting Skype users

Security firm Trend Micro discovered a new worm targeting Skype users with spam messages designed to infect machines with the Dorkbot ransomware has been discovered. A malicious worm is taking advantage of the Skype API to spam out messages that link to a ZIP files ie. skype06102012image.zip or...

Grand push her stored-XSS-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Vulnerability type: xsscross-site scripting attacks Hazard rating: high The self-assessment Rank: 1 to 5 Vulnerability status: the vendor has confirmed Brief description: Grand tuita somewhere in the function leads to the www. tuita. com domain name under the storage typeXSS, combined with the...

New Ransom malware infecting computers

The Metropolitan Police have issued an urgent warning about a new ransom malware that is in circulation. Ransomware also referred to in some cases as cryptoviruses, cryptotrojans or cryptoworms comprises a class of malware which restricts access to the computer system that it infects, and demands...

Microsoft Patches Critical MS12-060 Office Flaw Being Used in Targeted Attacks

Microsoft on Tuesday fixed a critical vulnerability in a component of Office, SQL Server and other widely deployed applications that attackers already are using in targeted attacks. The flaw in the Microsoft Common Controls component, which was one of the 26 vulnerabilities fixed in nine bulletin...

New Morto Strain Emerges With File Infection Capability

A new strain of the Morto worm has added a file infection capability in addition to its existing ability to compromise remote desktop connections, according to new research from Microsoft. Now Morto is infecting files in the default RDP file share, ‘tsclient,’ after it determines which drives it...

AutoCAD Worm Stealing Designs, Blueprints

Security researchers have come across a new worm that is meant specifically to steal blueprints, design documents and other files created with the AutoCAD software. The worm, known as ACAD/Medre.A, is spreading through infected AutoCAD templates and is sending tens of thousands of stolen document...

News Roundup: What The Experts Are Saying About The Flame Worm

UPDATE: Are the winds of cyber war blowing, or is the newly discovered Flame worm just a tempest in a teapot? Just days after it was disclosed to the public, the Flame worm is fanning the flames of controversy within the security world. Threatpost takes a look at what people are saying. Calling...

Flame Worm Detection

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Iran: We Have Discovered 'Hidden Agenda' Of Oil Ministry Attack

The Iranian government has discovered what it describes as a ‘hidden agenda’ behind a recent malware attack on the country’s Oil Ministry, according to a report published by the FARS News Agency. The statement, from Deputy Oil Minister Hamdollah Mohammadnejad, confirmed earlier reports that the...