Blog Posts Tagged with "Trojans"
Majority of SpyEye Trojan C and C Located in United States
March 28, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"SpyEye, along with ZeuS, are notorious banking Trojans that have helped thieves steal more than $100 million around the world. Without an end-user PC solution, banks face great difficulty protecting individual customers from the sophisticated threats posed..."
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IC3: Browser Bot Infection and HTML Attachment Malware
March 28, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The open source browser can now function like a bot and accept commands. It can process the content of the current page where it is located, redirect the user, halt the loading of particular pages, steal passwords, run executables, and even kill itself...
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The Top Forty Banks Targeted by the SpyEye Trojan
March 21, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Researchers from F-Secure released a list of the top forty banks targeted by SpyEye, one of the more powerful data-sniffing Trojans ever developed. The release of the SpyEye source code last year meant a dramatic increase in its application became a very real scenario...
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Stealth Code for New Mutation of PHP Bot Infector
February 21, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
I found a new mutation of a PHP bot infector, with zero percent detection by AV software. When I decoded the PHP backdoor I got 17 AV hits on it. This leads to the question about evasion techniques and how effective anti-virus applications are at doing code de-obfuscation...
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Security Flaw in eBanking Affects Over 100 Million Users
February 14, 2012 Added by:Alan Woodward
CAPTCHAs. You've all had to use them at some point - those funny, distorted versions of a piece of text that only a human can decipher. I was shocked to learn that CAPTCHAs were being used in eBanking and could successfully be attacked nearly 100% of the time....
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Seventy-Five Million Unique Malware Samples in 2012
February 08, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Imagine your body being targeted by 75 million viruses. That is exactly what’s happening to your digital devices. Laptops, desktops, netbooks, notebooks, Macs, iPads, iPhones, BlackBerrys, Androids, and Symbian mobile phones are all being targeted...
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Report: Malware Creation Hit Record High in 2011
January 31, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The report attributes the increase to automation techniques being more widely used in the creation of malware variants - slightly altered signatures developed to foil anti-malware detection software. The report notes a sharp increase in the proliferation of Trojans...
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Importance of a Secure Supply Chain in Selecting IT Vendors
December 07, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
There have been numerous reports of rootkits and trojans that have been installed on component level chips designed to infiltrate networks from the inside. Government agencies have stepped up their diligence regarding what products are allowed to protect infrastructure at high security levels...
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Malware Infection Rates – Who Has the Most Viruses?
December 07, 2011 Added by:Dan Dieterle
A look at the top viruses for each country shows a lot of cookie based viruses. Which may or may not be real viruses, but the rates are high none the less. But how does this compare to what other vendors are finding?
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Zeus Trojan Gains Peer-to-Peer Functionality
October 13, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"A few weeks ago I noticed that no new murofet/LICAT C&C domain names have been registered... I was a little bit confused and decided to analyze a recent Zeus sample... My first guess was: This is not ZeuS. But after I've analysed the infection I came to the conclusion that it is..."
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SpyEye Trumps Mobile Banking SMS Security Systems
October 06, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"This latest SpyEye configuration demonstrates that out-of-band authentication systems, including SMS-based solutions, are not fool-proof... Using a combination of MITB technology and social engineering, fraudsters... fly under the radar of fraud detection systems..."
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California's "Sextortion" Hacker Sentenced to Prison
September 06, 2011 Added by:Headlines
In addition to stealing financial information, Mijangos “read victims’ e-mails and IMs, watched them through their webcams, and listened to them through the microphones on their computers. Often, he then used the information he obtained to play psychological games with his victims...”
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Zeus Trojan Gains Self-Propagating Ability via Ramnit
August 26, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“Unlike the past, when financial institutions had to defend against a limited number of malware platforms, attacks can now come from virtually any malicious software program - old or new. The malware distribution channel for fraudsters has increased in scale significantly..."
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Zeus Trojan Spreading via Facebook Friend Requests
August 24, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The malware is spreading by sending messages through Facebook notifications. When a user clicks the link to approve a "friend" request it opens a page that invites him to install the what is purported to be the latest version of Adobe Flash Player, but actually installs the malware...
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McAfee Reports Most Malware Ever in Early 2011
July 26, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
In February alone, approximately 2.75 million new malware samples were recorded. Fake antivirus software had an active quarter as well, reaching its highest levels in more than a year, with 350,000 unique samples recorded in March. Mobile malware is the new frontier of cybercrime...
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Seven No-Cost Security Tune-Ups for Windows
July 19, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Don't use Internet Explorer or, for that matter, Safari... neither is as secure as Chrome, Firefox or Opera. IE 10 is certainly safer to use than previous versions, but significant security flaws that could expose your Windows system to malicious code online tend to crop up with it..."
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