Carberp Trojan still alive and well, security company finds
The Carberp bank login Trojan is very much alive and in operation despite last week’s arrests in Russia of an eight-man gang accused of being core users of the malware’s botnet, security company Kaspersky Lab has said. The company has already detected criminals selling the Trojan on malware forums and at least one new campaign […]
Microsoft disrupts servers used by feared Zeus bank Trojan
In the most significant cybercrime bust of the year so far, Microsoft and US banking organisations say they have disrupted a number of the most active botnets that have been attacking online banking customers across the world with impunity using the Zeus crimeware. On 19 March, the company filed a court action using the US […]
There’s a New Version of the Stuxnet-esque Duqu Trojan Floating Around and Nobody Knows What It Does [Hacking]
A newly surfaced version of the Duqu trojan indicates that the authors of one of the most sophisticated computer worms in recent memory are aggressively trying to figure out how to attack their next target. Researchers at Symantec have analyzed the mysterious new file, W32.Duqu, which is one of the components of the of the […]
Russian police arrest notorious ‘Carberp’ Trojan gang
Russian police are reported to have arrested the gang behind the notorious Carberp Trojan used to steal hundreds of millions of roubles from online bank customers during one of the most notorious cybercrime campaigns ever to hit the country. In a major police operation, The Federal Security Service (FSB) and Ministry of the Interior (MVD) […]
Unknown Computer Language Found in Trojan
Some of you may recall from the past two years news about some malware which had apparently targeted Iranian nuclear enrichment centers . The Stuxnet worm destroyed 400 centrifuges, which are critical to enriching uranium, and later the Duqu trojan was found. Duqu’s purpose is not yet known as it has not been activated yet, […]
Bigger bank-hitting Trojan malware seen
PARIS (Reuters)- Christians far outnumber Muslims as migrants around the world, including in the European Union where debates about immigration usually focus on new Muslim arrivals, according to a new study issued on Thursday. Of the world’s 214 million people who have moved from their home country to live in another, about 106 million (49 […]
Duqu Trojan written in mystery programming language, analysis finds
The mystery of the Stuxnet-like ‘Duqu’ Trojan has deepened with the news that elements of its payload appear to have to have been written in an unidentifiable programming language. An ongoing analysis effort by Kaspersky Lab researchers has now uncovered much of the inner programming structure of the software, overwhelmingly written quite conventionally in C++. […]
Intego Warns of New Mac Trojan Variant
The company’s researchers say Flashback.G has already infected many OS X users. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
Apple Mac user logins hunted by Flashback.G Trojan
Apple Mac users have been warned to be on the lookout for a new variant of the Flashback Java Trojan that has already hit an unknown number of victims running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The new Flashback.G documented by Mac security company Intego shows an interesting development in the sophistication of its social engineering. […]
Modified ZeuS botnet Trojan no longer needs C&C servers
The ZeuS Trojan has been modified by cybercriminals in a way that means it no longer relies on command and control (CC) servers for receiving instructions, according to Symantec security researchers. ZeuS is very popular in the cybercriminal world because it’s capable of stealing a wide variety of information, documents and login credentials from infected […]