Norway’s energy sector appears to have been hit by a “very serious” targeted attack in which large amounts of highly sensitive data were lost from some of the country’s most important companies. What is being described by news sources in the country has the hallmarks of a typical, industrial attack…
Leveson phone hacking inquiry interrupted.. by a Trojan horse
The first day of an inquiry into phone hacking by the British media was briefly interrupted today, by a Trojan horse. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
Cycling star Landis sentenced for alleged Trojan attack
Former US cycling star Floyd Landis has been handed a suspended 12-month prison sentence by a French court for his part in an alleged plot to steal documents from the country’s national anti-doping laboratory (LNDD) using Trojan malware. The fact that the sentence has been suspended is actually good news…
Hackers poison Brazilian ISP DNS to infect users with banking Trojan
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab warn that cybercriminals hacked into the DNS (Domain Name System) servers of several Brazilian ISPs and used them to redirect users to websites that distributed malware. These attacks have occurred in the last few days, but they are not new to the region,…
New Duqu malware shares Stuxnet Trojan code similarities
Symantec Corp. researchers have revealed the presence of new malware that is strikingly similar to the dangerous Stuxnet Trojan, and could be a precursor to a future Stuxnet-style attack. Symantec Security Response researchers say Duqu (pronounced dyü-kyü), named because it creates files with the file name prefix “~DQ”, was first…
New Tsunami Trojan discovered for Mac OS
Security researchers have discovered a new variant of the Tsunami Trojan targeting Mac OS, which can be used to turn your Mac into a ‘bot’ that participates in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. Security firm ESET said that the variant is similar to the threat discovered earlier this week but played…
New Mac Malware Part Trojan, Data Stealer, Spyware, BitCoin Miner
Security researchers have uncovered yet another Mac Trojan in the wild, this time hiding inside pirated versions of the Mac OS X image editing application GraphicConverter. The pirated copy of GraphicConverter 7.4 is being actively distributed on file-sharing networks and torrent sites like Pirate Bay and contains the DevilRobber Trojan,…
Double whammy: New Mac Trojan spies on user, uses GPU
A new malware targeting computers running Apple’s Mac OS X system packs a double whammy: it spies on the user, and uses the computer’s graphics processing unit to mine for Bitcoins. Computer security firm Sophos said the malware — aptly dubbed DevilRobber (a.k.a. OSX/Miner-D) — comes with copies of an…
Hackers port ancient Linux Trojan to Mac OS X
The Tsunami malware is in limited circulation and is likely still being tested, say experts Hackers are testing new Mac malware that they’ve ported from a nine-year-old Trojan horse originally written for Linux, according to security experts. The malware, dubbed “Tsunami,” has been circulating in limited numbers since last week,…
‘Tsunami’ trojan malware bot ported to OS X
Another day, another Trojan. The malware bot called “Tsunami” that has been developed for Linux systems since around 2002 has been found on OS X. The malware (OSX/Tsunami.A) is a minimal threat, and as with other Trojans and backdoors for OS X requires you to manually and purposefully install it….