Researchers at Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit discovered a theft of Bitcoin made hijacking networks of at least 19 Internet service providers. With the rise of Bitcon value has increased the interest of cybercrime, since now we have read of botnet able to mine virtual currency with victim’s resources and malicious codes able to steal Bitcoin […]
Experts at the German security firm G-Data discovered a RAT dubbed IcoScript which receives commands from C&C via email services including Yahoo and Gmail. Security experts have detected a new Remote Administration Trojan dubbed IcoScript which is controlled by bad actors through Yahoo Mail and is able to elude detection systems by using seemingly benign domains for […]
A security team at Russian Internet firm Yandex has identified a botnet based on a malware dubbed Mayhem which is targeting Linux and FreeBSD web servers. Security experts at Russian Internet company Yandex have detected a new strain of malware dubbed Mayhem which is targeting server based on Linux and FreeBSD OSs. Yandex is a Russian company which operates the […]
Security Experts at Bitdefender report that a new PushDo variant emerged from the underground compromising 11,000 machine in 24 hours. Security experts at BitDefender have recently detected a surge in the number of Pushdo trojan infections analyzing data from e sinkholing of C&C domains used by the malware. The experts discovered that the new Pushdo campaign is […]
A Security Researcher at Abuse.ch has started SSL blacklist project to create an archive of all the digital certificates used for illicit activities. In recent years security experts have discovered many cases in which bad actors have abused of digital certificates for illicit activities, from malware distribution to Internet surveillance. Botmasters are exploiting new techniques to avoid detection by security experts and […]
Experts from Malcovery Security have discovered that the Gameover Zeus botnet is reborn, a new improved version has emerged from the underground. A few weeks ago we have praised a multinational effort for the takeover of the Gameover Zeus botnet, one of the most long-lived and dangerous malicious infrastructure composed by a number of compromised computers ranging from 500,000 […]
Facebook in a joint operation with the Greek Cyber Crime Division dismantled the Lecpetex botnet, which infected 250,000 Computers in different countries. Facebook has announced to have successfully conducted the takeover of the Lecpetex botnet  in Greece. The bad actors operating in Greece were using the popular social media platform for illicit activities, including data stealing, malware distribution […]
Executing an order of a Nevada Court, Microsoft has seized domains belonging to the No-IP.com Dynamic DNS Service affecting the traffic of million users. Microsoft has executed a large-scale operation against a malware network thought to be responsible for more than 7.4 million infections of Windows machines worldwide. The operation conducted by Microsoft has brought down millions of […]
Trend Micro analyzed a targeted attack against a Taiwanese government entity which used a variant of the PlugX RAT that abuses the Dropbox service. Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that a targeted attack against a government agency in Taiwan was conducted using a variant of the PlugX remote access tool (RAT) which abuses the popular file hosting service […]
Security experts at CSIS in Denmark have discovered a new piece of banking malware, dubbed Dyreza, which implements browser hooking to defeat SSL. Dyreza is the name of a new banking Trojan which is targeting numerous financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citibank, Natwest, RBS and Ulsterbank. Dyreza captured the attention of security researchers due the technique it […]