International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World

International Conference on Cyber Security ICCS 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World The FBI is teaming up with Fordham University for the International Conference on Cyber Security. It's an effort to identify emerging cyber threats and develop ways to mitigate those threats. The ZeuS Trojan has...

Research: Botnets, the Most Prevalent Threat in the Enterprise

Botnets are the most significant source of malicious Web traffic for enterprises on the Internet, according to new research from ZScaler’s ThreatLabz. Over the past 30 days, botnets have accounted for nearly 80 percent of the security blocks within ZScaler’s network. In a distant second place amo...

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...

Zeus Now Using Autorun As Infection Numbers Rise

After tapering off, the Zeus Trojan has been staging a comeback over the last few months, possibly using a new infection routine that leverages Windows’ autorun feature even after a company update to limit infections that use it, according to research by Microsoft. Microsoft’s Malicious Software...

dns-zeustracker NSE Script

Checks if the target IP range is part of a Zeus botnet by querying ZTDNS @ abuse.ch. Please review the following information before you start to scan: Example Usage nmap -sn -PN --script=dns-zeustracker Script Output Host script results: | dns-zeustracker: | Name IP SBL ASN Country Status Level...

SpyEye and Zeus Malware: Married Or Living Separately?

Everyone knows that the first year of marriage can be a tough one -around three percent of them end in the first 12 months. Looks like the same can be true of malware marriages, with the union of the Zeus and SpyEye Trojan now in question. Just one year after news broke that the Zeus and SpyEye...

Bogus Netflix Application For Android Steals Passwords, Won't Let You Watch Movies

A report from Symantec claims that malware authors tricked an untold number of Netflix users into coughing up their account credentials with a Trojan horse application that doubled as a Netflix app for the Android platform. In a blog post, Symantec researcher Irfan Asrar writes about a new piece ...

P2P Version of Zeus Botnet Appears

A new version of the Zeus malware has appeared, and this does not seem to be a minor upgrade, but a major custom version of the Trojan, which now sports a P2P capability that does away with the use of the domain-generation algorithm used in earlier versions and instead uses a hardcoded list of IP...

Researcher: Malware, Increasingly Interdependent, Stifles Security Wares

BARCELONA — A researcher says that malicious software such as botnets and browser exploit kits are becoming more and more interdependent, complicating the job of those who seek to detect and remove the malware. Aditya Sood, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering ...

Google Pushes Update For Chrome to Fix Faulty Microsoft Malware Detection

Google has pushed out an update for its Chrome browser that fixes a problem caused by the incident last week in which Microsoft Security Essentials mistakenly detected the browser as the Zeus bot and removed it from some machines. The update should automatically fix any damaged Chrome...

Microsoft Pushes Emergency Update After Security Products Call Chrome "Banking Trojan"

Microsoft was forced to push out an emergency update to its Security Essentials and Forefront products Friday after users complained that an updated virus signature intended to spot the Zeus Trojan was, instead, flagging and even removing instances of Google’s Chrome Web browser. The fireworks...

New Aldi Botnet Aims to Be "People's Bot" for Under $10

A new, exceptionally cheap botnet builder has surfaced called Aldi Bot and is for sale online for as little as US $8. Aldi Bot first appeared in August and is named after the popular supermarket chain, according to a post this week on GData’s SecurityBlog. Its authors initially offered it for €10...

Aldi Bot - Buy a Botnet just in 10 Euros

Aldi Bot - Buy a Botnet just in 10 Euros Researchers of German security firm G Data have discovered that a bot builder dubbed "Aldi Bot" is currently being offered for that much on underground forums. The Aldi Bot Builder appears to be based on the ZeuS source code. The malware has nothing to do...

Aldi Bot - Buy a Botnet just in 10 Euros

Aldi Bot - Buy a Botnet just in 10 Euros Researchers of German security firm G Data have discovered that a bot builder dubbed "Aldi Bot" is currently being offered for that much on underground forums. The Aldi Bot Builder appears to be based on the ZeuS source code. The malware has nothing to do...

SpyEye Trojan stole $3.2 million from US victims,Android users will be next target !

SpyEye Trojan stole $3.2 million from US victims,Android users will be next target ! A Russian cybergang headed by a mysterious ringleader called 'Soldier' were able to steal $3.2 million £2 million from US citizens earlier this year using the SpyEye-Zeus data-stealing Trojan, security company...

Ice IX: Not Cool At All

My colleague Jorge Mieres recently found a C&C server of a botnet based on a malicious program called Ice IX. As announced on several user forums, Ice IX is a bot created using the source code of ZeuS 2.0.8.9, which became publicly available in May. The author of the new bot says the program...

Aviv Raff on the Evolution of Exploit Kits

In this video, via Kaspersky’s Lab Matters, Ryan Naraine and Seculert’s Aviv Raff discuss the evolution of exploit kits and the recent merger of Spyeye and Zeus...

Ramnit Worm Evolves Into Financial Malware

The Ramnit worm, known by researchers for its use of somewhat old-school malicious techniques, has now changed some of its tactics and morphed into financial malware, researchers say. As of now, researchers at Trusteer say they have no way of determining whether Ramnit has actually changed, or if...