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Posted in January 25th, 2012
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admin in
bitdefender,
combined malware,
frankenmalware,
Malware,
malware news,
malware sandwiches,
malware story,
mutated malware,
mutating malware,
new malware variants,
rss,
virus infects worm,
worm infected by virus
Now this is quite a fascinating story, especially if you know anything about Malware and have interests in that area. It seems the latest development is the accidental development of new super-malware strains created by viruses infecting executable fil…
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Posted in January 5th, 2012
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admin in
banking trojan,
Facebook,
facebook malware,
facebook security,
facebook trojan,
facebook worm,
hack email,
hacking-facebook,
Malware,
ramnit,
rss,
Spammers & Scammers,
steal facebook account,
viruses,
Web Hacking,
worm
Oh look, another Facebook worm – this one seems pretty nasty and as usual it’s going for Facebook access details and then diving into banking credentials if it can find them. It’s mostly targeted at the UK though, worms of these type …
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Posted in December 15th, 2011
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admin in
beast,
beast bug,
Countermeasures,
duqu,
duqu bug,
exploits,
Exploits/Vulnerabilities,
hacking microsoft,
hacking-windows,
Malware,
microsoft,
microsoft security,
patch-tuesday,
patches,
rss,
vulnerabilities,
Windows Hacking,
windows-security
It looks like Microsoft originally had a patch for the BEAST vulnerability, but for some reason they have withdrawn it for the December Patch Tuesday. It’s a pretty bumper crop of patches though with 13 bulletins and 19 vulnerabilities fixed, the…
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Posted in November 15th, 2011
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admin in
anjungnet,
certificate,
certificate signing,
Cryptography,
hacking,
hacking malaysia,
malaysia,
malaysian government,
malaysian-hacking,
Malware,
mardi,
mardi malaysia,
mardi.gov.my,
rss,
stolen certificate
It wasn’t too long ago (about 6 months) when we reported about Malaysia Government Sites Under Attack From Anonymous – which was somewhat suspicious. And well that’s about the only story we’ve had about Malaysia really. Perhaps …
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Posted in October 27th, 2011
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admin in
attachment parsing,
Exploits/Vulnerabilities,
Facebook,
facebook hacking,
facebook malware,
facebook security,
facebook virus,
file attachment,
file parsing,
hacking-facebook,
Malware,
malware attachment,
malware parsing,
nathan power,
Phishing,
rss,
Social Engineering,
Web Hacking
Oh look – another vulnerability in Facebook! It wasn’t long ago we reported New Research Shows Facebook’s URL Scanner Is Vulnerable To Cloaking. Well this time the private messaging function has been compromised, you can attach an executa…
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Posted in October 20th, 2011
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admin in
0zapftis,
Bundestrojaner,
german federal trojan,
german trojan,
germany,
hacking,
kasperksy,
Legal Issues,
Malware,
privacy,
r2d2 trojan,
rss,
trojans,
wiretapping
It’s always good to have some news about government conspiracy theories, or in this case government propagated malware. The last case I remember reporting on was – Tunisia Running Country Wide Facebook, Gmail & Yahoo! Password Capture….
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Posted in October 10th, 2011
by
admin in
blackhat academy,
blackhat seo,
cloaking urls,
Exploits/Vulnerabilities,
Facebook,
facebook security,
facebook url cloaking,
facebook url scanner,
hacking-facebook,
link baiting,
link masking,
Malware,
page filtering,
rss,
web filtering,
websense
Oh look, Facebook security (or insecurity) is in the news again – not that this technique is anything revolutionary or ground-breaking. It’s basically a HTTP referer detection system for the Facebook URL scanner (the thing that generates th…
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Posted in September 27th, 2011
by
admin in
blackhole exploit kit,
Database Hacking,
Exploits/Vulnerabilities,
hacking mysql,
hacking mysql.com,
Malware,
mwjs159,
mysql,
mysql.com compromised,
mysql.com hack,
mysql.com spreading malware,
mysql.com trojan,
rss,
sucuri security
The latest story doing the rounds is that MySQL.com got hacked and was serving malware which put it on the Google malware block list. It appears to be in the clear now though and it’s accessible again via Google. It seems to be a similar case wit…
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Posted in July 23rd, 2011
When you think about hacking laptops, it’s highly unlikely that you would ever consider the battery as a viable attack vector. Security researcher [Charlie Miller] however, has been hard at work showing just how big a vulnerability they can be. As we have been discussing recently, the care and feeding of many batteries, big and [...]
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Posted in July 20th, 2011
Google has just announced something pretty interesting, that it is using its own data to detect viruses and will as of today be using Google Search results pages to warn users if their computers are infected with a specific form of malware. Users infected with the virus, which is apparently rerouting traffic to Google and other sites through a proxy, will see the above warning.
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Posted in July 13th, 2011
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admin in
Apple,
Countermeasures,
ios,
ios antivirus,
ios malware,
ios malware scanner,
iphone,
iphone antivirus app,
iphone malware,
Malware,
malware scanning iphone app,
rss,
Security Software,
virusbarrier
This is quite an interesting story as it’s very closely related to the story we published earlier this week – Malicious PDF Files To Exploit iPhone & iPad Zero Day In The Wild. Hot on the tail of that news is the first-ever malware sca…
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Posted in July 4th, 2011
by
admin in
alureon,
botnet,
botnets,
cast iron botnet,
huge botnet,
Malware,
rss,
tdl,
tdl botnet,
tdl malware,
tdl trojan,
tdl-4,
tdss,
trojans,
Windows Hacking
It’s been recently uncovered that there’s a HUGE botnet, which is extremely advanced and constantly evolving a variant of the ever popular (and usually quite advanced) TDL strain. We did write about a TDL variant earlier in 2010 – TDL…
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Posted in June 28th, 2011
While some people know that you should be wary of USB drives with unknown origins, the same care is rarely, if ever exercised with USB peripherals. The security firm Netragard recently used this to their advantage when performing a penetration test at a client’s facility. When the client ruled out the use of many common [...]
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Posted in May 23rd, 2011
by
admin in
analyse malware,
analyze malware,
Countermeasures,
digital-forensics,
dynamic malware analysis,
Forensics,
Malware,
malware analyser,
malware analysis,
malware analyzer,
malware forensics,
Programming,
rss,
static analysic,
static malware analysis
Malware Analyser is freeware tool to perform static and dynamic analysis on malware executables, it can be used to identify potential traces of anti-debug, keyboard hooks, system hooks and DEP setting change calls in the malware. This is a stepping rel…
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Posted in May 13th, 2011
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admin in
Apple,
apple malware,
apple virus,
apple-security,
mac malware,
mac malware kit,
mac osx bot,
mac osx trojan,
mac-security,
Malware,
malware kit,
osc malware kit,
osx malware,
osx security,
rss,
weyland-yutani bot
Malware on the ubiquitous Apple platform has always been scoffed at by Mac users, and it was fair enough really. There weren’t a whole lot of Mac users so the effort to develop malware for the Mac platform really wasn’t worth it. The platfo…
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Posted in April 6th, 2011
by
admin in
antivirus,
blocking malware,
chrome,
chrome malware,
chrome malware block,
chrome security,
Countermeasures,
google safe browsing,
google safe browsing api,
google-chrome,
Malware,
rss,
safe browsing api,
safe-browsing,
Security Software,
web browsing,
web-security
It looks like Google Chrome is stepping up to provide users with the most secure browsing experience. The browser has been built with security in mind since the beginning with it’s sandbox model and it escaped exploitation during the recent Pwn2O…
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Posted in March 7th, 2011
by
admin in
android,
android malware,
android security,
dreamdroid,
dreamdroid malware,
droiddream,
droiddream malware,
Exploits/Vulnerabilities,
google,
google android,
google android security,
Linux Hacking,
Malware,
rss
Android must be getting popular! It’s always a test of a new platform or OS, when does it start getting serious malware targeting it? It seems like the time for Android is now, the news lately has been buzzing about the DroidDream malware that ha…
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Posted in January 25th, 2011
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admin in
botnet,
botnet for hire,
botnets,
buy botnet,
buy bots,
cyber-crime,
hire botnet,
Malware,
Phishing,
rss,
Spammers & Scammers,
trojan,
trojans,
worm,
worms
Perhaps even the cyber-criminals are effected by the recent recession – botnets for hire are hitting rock-bottom rates starting at just $2. We reported back in April 2010 about the Texas Man Who Pleaded Guilty To Bot Network For Hire. They are be…
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Posted in January 20th, 2011
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admin in
Apple,
cross platform malware,
cross platform trojan,
cross platform virus,
java based malware,
java based trojan,
jnanabot,
koobface,
Linux Hacking,
linux malware,
linux trojan,
mac malware,
mac trojan,
mac-virus,
macbook-pro,
Malware,
osx trojan,
osx.koobface,
rss,
trojan.jnanabot,
Windows Hacking,
windows-virus
It’s pretty rare to read about malware on the Linux or Mac OSX platforms and even more rare to read about cross-platform malware which targets both AND Windows by using Java. A neat piece of coding indeed, it targets vulnerabilities in all 3 oper…
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Posted in January 17th, 2011
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admin in
android china,
android malware,
android phone trojan,
android phones,
android trojan,
android virus,
china malware,
hacking android,
Legal Issues,
Malware,
Phishing,
privacy,
rss,
scamming,
spammers,
trojan,
trojans
It seems like the Chinese are always coming up with inventive ways to scam people, this time the people in their own country. Android is of course growing quickly globally and China is no exception with the availability of cheap hardware there the open…
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
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admin in
0day,
bypass uac,
Exploits/Vulnerabilities,
Malware,
prevx,
rss,
sophos,
uac,
user access control,
win7 0day,
windows 7 exploit,
windows 7 zero-day,
Windows Hacking,
windows kernel exploit,
windows kernel vulnerability,
windows uac,
windows vista exploit,
windows-security,
zero-day
Now this is not the first time Windows UAC has hit the news for being flawed, back in February 2009 it was discovered that Windows 7 UAC Vulnerable – User Mode Program Can Disable User Access Control and after that in November 2009 it was demonstrate…
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Posted in November 17th, 2010
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admin in
64-bit windows rootkit,
alureon,
alureon rootkit,
Malware,
prevx,
root kit,
rootkit,
rootkits,
rss,
tdl,
tdl rootkit,
win7,
win7 malware,
win7 rootkit,
windows 7,
windows 7 rootkit,
windows 7 security,
Windows Hacking
As we’ve come to expect, the malware guys are always at the leading edge of technological development. Now there are rootkits infecting 64-Bit versions of Windows, which have been thought of as fairly safe by most parties. The rootkit in question…
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Posted in November 7th, 2010
When a new virus or other piece of malware is identified, security researchers attempt to get a hold of the infection toolkit used by malicious users, and then apply this infection into a specially controlled environment in order to study how the virus spreads and communicates. Normally, these toolkits also include some sort of management [...]
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Posted in November 2nd, 2010
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admin in
Apple,
apple-mac,
Countermeasures,
mac anti-virus,
mac antivirus,
mac av,
mac-osx,
mac-security,
Malware,
osx anti-virus,
osx antivirus,
rss,
Security Software,
sophos,
sophos antivirus,
sophos mac antivirus
Well most Apple users would tell you they don’t need anti-virus anyway, viruses and malware are a Windows problem – not something the hi-tech hipsters need to worry about. And let’s face it, even if you run Windows you don’t rea…
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Posted in October 29th, 2010
by
admin in
0-day,
0day,
Adobe,
adobe flash 0day,
adobe flash exploit,
adobe flash security,
adobe reader,
adobe reader 0day,
adobe reader exploit,
adobe reader vulnerability,
adobe security,
authplay,
authplay exploit,
Exploits/Vulnerabilities,
flash,
Malware,
rss,
Windows Hacking,
zeroday
Well this seems to be a frequently recurring theme, yes there is yet another critical 0day vulnerability in Adobe products – pretty much across the board this time. It was that long ago that a critical flaw in Flash put Android phones at risk. Th…
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Posted in October 27th, 2010
by
admin in
0-day,
0day,
belmoo,
Exploits/Vulnerabilities,
firefox,
firefox 0day,
firefox exploit,
firefox-security,
firefox-vulnerability,
liu xiaobo,
Malware,
nobel peace prize,
race condition,
rss,
Web Hacking,
web-security
It’s been a while since Firefox has been in the news, but this is a fairly high profile case involving the Nobel Peace Prize website. It seems there is a race condition vulnerability in the latest versions of Firefox (including 3.6.11) that allow…
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Posted in October 21st, 2010
This is a pretty neat attack from the malware pushes leveraging on the ignorance of the average user – which in all honestly is a safe bet most of the time! You could consider it a Social Engineering attack as it’s taking something thatR…
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Posted in October 20th, 2010
by
admin in
Countermeasures,
Malware,
malware detection,
nsdecoder,
rss,
Web Hacking,
web hosted malware,
web malware,
web malware analysis,
web malware analyzer,
web-security,
website malware detection tool
NSDECODER is a automated website malware detection tool. It can be used to decode and analyze an URL to see if it host to malware. Also, NSDECODER will analyze which vulnerability has been exploited and the original source address of malware. Functions…
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Posted in October 1st, 2010
by
admin in
arrests,
bank fraud,
banking malware,
e-banking,
e-banking fraud,
e-banking security,
financial fraud,
financial malware,
Legal Issues,
Malware,
money mules,
mules,
rss,
Spammers & Scammers,
zeus,
zeus trojan,
zeus trojan arrests,
zeus trojan fraud
Zeus has been around for quite some time, we reported it about it initially back in 2009 when it was noted Zeus could evade anti-virus software. In more recent months it was noted that Zeus has become more focused and variations of Zeus were found to b…
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Posted in September 22nd, 2010
by
admin in
Exploits/Vulnerabilities,
Malware,
onmouseover,
rss,
twitter,
twitter exploit,
twitter hack,
twitter hacked,
twitter malware,
twitter onmouseover,
twitter safety,
twitter security,
twitter vulnerability,
twitter xss,
Web Hacking
The big news yesterday was an epic XSS flaw on Twitter that sent the micro-blogging service into chaos. They actually made an announcement during the hack that users should stay off the web-site and use 3rd party services through the API (Software such…
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