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SevenDust/666, AutoStart 9805
1998 The late 1990s saw the advent of more malicious malware for the Mac. Discovered a few days before Halloween 1998, the Sevendust virus would remove all files from the infected hard drive, but leave applications and one file named “666” in the Extensions folder. AutoStart, one of the first Mac...
Kelihos Returns: Same Botnet or New Version?
The twice-shut-down Kelihos botnet remains active and continues spamming with a new variant, despite yesterday’s efforts by Kaspersky Lab and CrowdStrike that knocked offline and sinkholed the most recent version of the botnet. According to a Seculert report, the indomitable botnet is using a...
Mass WordPress Compromise Fuels CRIDEX Worm Outbreak
There are a number of compromised sites on the popular blogging platform, WordPress, which, according to a Trend Labs report, are actively infecting users with the CRIDEX worm. The infections are part of a social engineering campaign that lures users with emails purporting to come from trusted...
[POC] Windows RDP Vulnerability Exploit
POC Windows RDP Vulnerability Exploit The vulnerability described by Microsoft as critical is known as MS12-020 or the RDP flaw. The hackers worked quickly on this particular vulnerability and we've already seen attempts to exploit the flaw which exists in a part of Windows called the Remote...
Microsoft Denies Reports of Exploits For Critical Windows RDP Hole
Microsoft said that it has not seen any evidence that hackers have figured out a way to take advantage of a critical vulnerability in the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol RDP that the company disclosed and patched on Tuesday. The statement comes in the wake of unconfirmed reports of working exploi...
Android Security - Boot Camp Workshop & Presentation #1
Document Title: =============== Android Security - Boot Camp Workshop & Presentation 1 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/454.rar Release Date: ============= 2012-02-26 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 454 Discovery...
Costin Raiu on the Timing of the Duqu Attacks
Threatpost editor Dennis Fisher and Kaspersky Lab’s Costin Raiu discuss the timing of the Duqu attacks, how that may hint at the identities of its creator and what other mysteries about the worm remain. RELATED Q&A Anatomy of the Duqu Attacks...
Trojan/Backdoor Detection - QAZ Worm
Binary data 6223.prm...
New Ramnit Variant Is Stealing Facebook Credentials
The Ramnit worm, which was first detected more than 18 months ago, has continued to evolve and now has spawned a version that is targeting victims’ Facebook credentials, and with great success. Researchers at Seculert in Israel have found a variant of Ramnit that is stealing those credentials and...
Stuxnet Finger Pointing
Stuxnet debuted with a frenzy in 2010 after researchers exposed the malware already busily disrupting Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. That was followed this past year by continued speculation, finger pointing and even some dismissive attitudes about the worm, which targets Siemens-made...
New Facebook Worm installing Zeus Bot in your Computer
New Facebook Worm installing Zeus Bot in your Computer Recently We Expose about 25 Facebook phishing websites and also write about biggest Facebook phishing in French which steal more then 5000 usernames and passwords. Today another new attack on Facebook users with Zeus Bot comes in action. The...
New Facebook Worm installing Zeus Bot in your Computer
New Facebook Worm installing Zeus Bot in your Computer Recently We Expose about 25 Facebook phishing websites and also write about biggest Facebook phishing in French which steal more then 5000 usernames and passwords. Today another new attack on Facebook users with Zeus Bot comes in action. The...
Facebook Worm Spreading, Installing Zeus Bot
A new worm has popped up on Facebook, using apparently stolen user credentials to log in to victims’ accounts and then send out malicious links to their friends. The worm also downloads and installs a variety of malware on users’ machines, including a variant of the Zeus bot. The worm is making t...
Researchers 'Convinced' Duqu Written By Same Group as Stuxnet
Researchers are fairly confident now that whoever wrote the Duqu malware also was involved in some way in developing the Stuxnet worm. They’re also confident that they have not yet identified all of the individual components of Duqu, meaning that there are potentially some other capabilities that...
New Toolkit Able to Track and Trace Duqu Worm
The Hungarian research facility that helped discover Duqu, the much-blogged about Trojan, has now released an open-source toolkit that can be used to help detect traces and instances of the worm. The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security CrySys at the Budapest University of Technology an...
Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm
Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm Security holes in the computer systems of federal prisons in the United States can effectively allow hackers to trigger a jailbreak by remote control. The discovery of the Stuxnet worm has alerted governments around the...
Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm
Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm Security holes in the computer systems of federal prisons in the United States can effectively allow hackers to trigger a jailbreak by remote control. The discovery of the Stuxnet worm has alerted governments around the...
A Doomsday Worm - The Sputnik of 2011
We had an Interesting Article by "Paul F Renda" in our The Hacker News Magazine's November Edition. We would Like to share this article with our website readers also. You can Download November Issue Here. This is a theoretical prima to bring out a discussion about whether an Internet doomsday wor...
A Doomsday Worm - The Sputnik of 2011
We had an Interesting Article by "Paul F Renda " in our The Hacker News Magazine's November Edition. We would Like to share this article with our website readers also. You can Download November Issue Here. This is a theoretical prima to bring out a discussion about whether an Internet doomsday wo...
Microsoft Mum On Duqu Fix In November
Microsoft said that its looking into a reported zero day vulnerability in Windows that was used by the Duqu malware to spread, but isn’t committing to a patch for the problem in time for this months scheduled update. “Microsoft is collaborating with our partners to provide protections for a...