Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted Tor-based Andorid Malware in the wild. Hackers have started creating Android based Trojans in mass scale. A new mrthod of Windows Trojan malware is implemented under Android has been spreading lately. The Android based Trojan, who as a C & C uses the domain of pseudo-zone- Onion. The Trojan uses the anonymous […]
Monetizing by serving ads has been the business model lately by most know sites like facebook, twitter, google, msn.com and various other websites. However there is a dark ecosystem in which these ads are either hijacked or compromise user accounts to server malware. A similar issue was seen by Bromium Labs and has been reported […]
CoinThief, a Bitcoin-stealing Trojan targeting Mac users, was discovered offering on several download websites such as CNET’s Download.com and MacUpdate.com. It was also available masquerading as pre compiled binaries in multiple GitHub projects. The malware variant installs a browser extensions for Safari and Google Chrome to monitor all web browsing traffic, specifically looking for login […]
Recently a zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer was discovered(CVE-2014-0322)). Researchers from Fireeye has identified that hackers are using this vulnerability in targeting US military personals. Furthermore they also suspect that this may be a very strategic campaign (Operation Snowman) during the President’s day weekend. FireEye researchers observed drive-by-download attack which alters HTML code of the […]
Its almost sounded unbelievable when Kaspersky research published a cyber espionage APT campaign MASK (Careto) that’s been running in the wild since 2007, undetected, targeting 31 countries. The complexity of the tools used for MAST by the attackers are very sophisticated which makes its very special. This includes an extremely sophisticated piece of malware, a […]
Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a Brazilian Java Trojan that spreads via phishing email. Dmitry Bestuzhev explains that he never owned a Playstation but received an email with an attachment with a unusual ways of spreading Trojan bankers via .Jar files ( 14KB). It appeared to be a strange Trojan because even if a user just clicks on a .jar […]
Adobe released an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability affecting Flash Player for Windows, Linux and OS X, the exploitation of which can result in an attacker gaining remote control of the compromised systems. The security flaw exists in Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.43 and earlier versions Adobe thanks Alexander Polyakov and Anton Ivanov of Kaspersky Labs […]
GameOver Zeus is a notorious malware family that makes fraudulent transactions from your bank accounts from the infected host. A new variant of GameOver Zeus uses encryption to hide itself while propagation which makes it almost impossible to be detected by modern day antivirus. The malware encrypts itself so well that it can pass the […]
Sophos, the antivirus and encryption products company recently released the ‘Dirty Dozen’ Spampionship tables for the Q4 of 2013. According to Sophos, United states has topped the charts with a 14.5% spam relaying volume. Although it is no matter to celebrate, these results are not completely surprising given that United States is one of the […]
Can you imagine your home television becoming a zombie ? As scary as it sounds , the reality is in front of us. Most of the current day televisions, refrigerators, surveillance devices and temperature control devices( Internet of Things- IoT) are all part of a home network, which in turn connects to the internet. None […]