Trojan Exploits Known Hole in Microsoft Office (February 9, 2012)
Wow! It’s an incident handler’s Christmas morning, tools, tools, tools. Very Applicable! -Todd Davis, Symantec Article source: http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/newsbites.php?vol=14&issue=13&rss=Y#sID309 View full post on National Cyber Security
DNSChanger Trojan Still Needs to be Cleaned from Fortune 500 and US Government Systems (February 3 & 6, 2012)
Half of Fortune 500 companies and nearly half of all US federal government agencies still have the DNSChanger Trojan on their networks, according to researchers……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
New Ice IX banking Trojan enables fraudsters to hijack phone calls
New variants of the Ice IX online banking Trojan program are tricking victims into exposing their telephone account numbers so that fraudsters can divert post-transaction verification phone calls made by banks to phone numbers under their control, researchers from security vendor Trusteer warned. Ice IX is a modified version of ZeuS, one of the most […]
Trojan gang targets BT, Talk Talk and Sky customers
Criminals using a dangerous variant of the Zeus bank Trojan have started hacking BT, Talk Talk and Sky phone accounts as a way of redirecting phone calls from bank fraud services away from victims. As with other financial malware, the Ice IX Trojan is designed to steal bank logins, emptying accounts of much money as […]
Trojan found breaking Yahoo CAPTCHA security in minutes
Researchers have discovered a malware engine that appears to be able to break the CAPTCHA security used by Yahoo’s webmail service after only a handful of attempts. There is nothing new in malware that tries to break CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) – a low-level war has been […]
Germany to shut down DNSChanger Trojan servers
German authorities are advising victims of DNSChanger Trojan programs to fix their computers’ Domain Name System settings using a free tool developed by antivirus company Avira, because the servers resolving DNS queries on their behalf will be closed down on March 8. DNSChanger is a family of Trojans for Windows and Mac OS X whose […]
‘Gameover’ malware is next-gen Zeus trojan
The “Gameover” malware that the FBI warned users about earlier this month is a preview of the next version of the even-more-notorious Zeus money-stealing Trojan, a security researcher said today. “Gameover represents the latest and greatest source code package from the Zeus author,” said Don Jackson, director of Dell SecureWorks’ counter-threat unit. “[New features] in […]
‘Gameover’ malware is next-gen Zeus trojan
The “Gameover” malware that the FBI warned users about earlier this month is a preview of the next version of the even-more-notorious Zeus money-stealing Trojan, a security researcher said today. “Gameover represents the latest and greatest source code package from the Zeus author,” said Don Jackson, director of Dell SecureWorks’ counter-threat unit. “[New features] in […]
Lucky escape after Zeus Trojan leaves $13 million untouched
The finance department of a New Jersey County has had a lucky escape after criminals hacked its online bank account, stealing only $19,000 (£12,000) from an account that held millions. The theft from Salem County occurred in December after malware believed to be the Zeus banking Trojan nabbed the logins for the Microsoft Exchange system […]
Hackers use Carrier IQ controversy to push Trojan
Android malware writers are taking advantage of the controversy surrounding Carrier IQ’s smartphone tracking software in order to distribute a premium SMS Trojan, security researchers from Symantec warn. “Android.Qicsomos is a modified version of an open source project meant to detect Carrier IQ on a device, with additional code to dial a premium SMS number,” […]