The latest banking malware Carberp has gone through three versions since it came on the scene last year and continues to add on new features. – A piece of banking malware is evolving more sophisticated capabilities to
stay hidden on victims’ PCs, according to several security researchers.
The information-stealing malware Carberp, discovered last October, can steal
a range of data, disguise itself as a legitimate Windows file and remove a…
The Bohu Trojan has been seen attempting to block cloud-based technologies in anti-virus products. – Enterprises are not the only ones interested in cloud security products.
Malware authors have their eyes on them too – something exemplified
by the Bohu Trojan, which blocks connections from Windows machines to
cloud anti-virus technologies to disable users defenses.
The malware was first spott…
A recap of IT security news for the past week includes malware targeting Android devices, the investigation into "Operation Payback" and more. – From malware targeting Google Android phones to news about the feds striking
back at quot;Operation Payback quot; attackers, the final week of 2010 was
anything but uneventful.
Researchers at Lookout Mobile Security uncovered a sophisticated
Trojan in the wild dubbed quot;Geinimi quot; going a…
A sophisticated piece of Android malware that has botnet-like capabilities was discovered attached to a number of games on a third-party Android market. – An advanced new Android Trojan has been found in the wild and it displays botnet-like capabilities, said Lookout Mobile Security on Dec. 29.
Named Geinimi, it is quot;the most sophisticated Android malware quot; so far, but its impact is currently limited as the infected apps are available only o…
A slew of Zeus Trojan variants and a merger between the two largest botnets have security researchers worried about future banking malware attacks. – The developers behind the Zeus and SpyEye Trojans have joined forces to
create one major botnet, with sophisticated capabilities to attack user bank
accounts, according to security researchers.
Malware authors aren’t sitting still as law enforcement
officials arrest
cyber-gangs stealing milli…
PERFORMANCE AT HALFTIME DURING USC VS. NOTRE DAME GAME
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Celebrated Los Angeles culture-mashers Ozomatli will be performing their song “Can’t Stop” with the University of Southern
California Trojan Marching Band, during halftime of this weekend’s USC vs Notre Dame game. The seven members
of Ozomatli will be collaborating with the 315 piece USC Marching band on the playing field at the historic Los
Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Esteemed USC Music Director Dr. Arthur Bartner says of the collaboration, “I’ve know Ozomatli for several
years. They’re local guys, great musicians and many of them have a marching band background. I like their style of
music: very broad and versatile combining Latin, funk, and rock. We’re honored to share the field with them this
Saturday.” Ozomatli bassist Wil Dog Abers feels equally honored, adding, “as a elementary school kid
attending 32nd street USC Magnet school I always dreamed of playing in the USC marching band… now I will get my
chance. A dream come true for me.”
The USC Marching band band also has a longstanding history collaborating with music artists, beginning with their
1979 recording of “Tusk” with Fleetwood Mac. The USC Marching band has performed with System of
a Down, WAR, George Clinton, and KC & The Sunshine Band at halftime. Most recently, USC
Marching band performed with Radiohead at the 2009 Grammy Awards and with Coheed &
Cambria at the Coachella music festival in 2010.
Tickets can be purchased through the USC Ticket Office.
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Two fugitives from a September cyber-arrest appeared in court Nov. 4 in Wisconsin. – Two men sought by the FBI on cyber-crime charges were picked up
recently by authorities, ending a month-long manhunt, according to
media reports.
Dorin Codreanu and Lilian Adam, both originally from Moldova,
appeared in court Nov. 4 in Madison, Wisc., after being arrested a
day earlier, the Wi…
Security researchers at Cisco Systems and Solera Networks are reporting tax spam being used to spread the Zeus Trojan. – Zeus is down off malware’s
Mount Olympus and infecting PCs yet again, this time using a tax scam being
spammed out by attackers as bait.
Using the Oct. 15 tax filing extension deadline as a ruse, the malware has
been up to its old tricks, targeting banking and other user information. The
spam …
The Zeus Trojan can go for thousands of dollars in the cyber-underworld, security researchers say. – Alleged
cyber-criminals around the world the week of Sept. 27 were scooped up by
police after a 16-month investigation that stretched from the United
States all the way to the Ukraine.
The cyber-crime ring is accused of stealing $70 million from bank accounts,
with targets ranging from ind…
The arrests keep coming in connection with a cyber-crime ring that used the Zeus Trojan to steal millions from bank accounts. – Ukraine police arrested five individuals accused of being part of a cyber-crime ring that used the Zeus Trojan to steal $70 million from U.S. bank accounts, the FBI said Oct. 1.
The arrests were made Sept. 30, and targeted people the FBI described as quot;key suspects responsible for this overarch…
A computer infected with a Trojan failed to trigger an alarm that could have kept an ill-fated flight on the ground in 2008, a report finds. The plane crashed in Madrid shortly after takeoff, killing 154 people. – A Trojan may have played a role in a 2008 plane crash in Madrid
that claimed the lives of 154 people, according to a media report.
The Spanair flight was headed for the Canary Islands
in August 2008 when it crashed just after takeoff at Madrid-Barajas
Airport. Just 18 people survived
the cras…
Security researchers say they have found the first SMS Trojan targeting Google Android-based devices. According to Kaspersky Lab, the malware, once installed, will send expensive text messages that will pad your bill. – Security researchers are warning users of Google
Android-based devices about the appearance of what may be the first Short Message
Service Trojan targeting their devices. It was originally discovered on a
Russian smartphone news site.
Dubbed Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, the malware is
bei…
New research from M86 Security has uncovered another botnet built on a version of the Zeus Trojan that is using exploit kits, malicious ads and malware to steal money and bank credentials from people in the United Kingdom. – Researchers at M86 Security have uncovered yet another
botnet built on the Zeus Trojan that is swiping bank information from people in
the United Kingdom.
The attack is still ongoing, and is known to have stolen
£675,000 (nearly $1.1 million) from customers between July 5 and Aug. 4.
According…
Microsoft is investigating reports of a vulnerability being exploited by a Trojan spreading through USB devices. According to security pros, the malware appears to be targeting the utility industry. – Microsoft is investigating reports of a Windows security vulnerability being
exploited by a Trojan some say is targeting industrial companies.
The malware exploits a vulnerability in Windows’ handling of quot;lnk quot;
shortcut files. According to
VirusBlokAda (PDF), a security vendor based in…
Trojan horse virus is one of the famous types of malware that can be infected to your PC. The main deference of this virus from other viruses is that it does not duplicate itself. It attempts to execute some executable files in your PC.
The Websense Security Labs has revealed that a Zbot Trojan campaign is spreading through emails which connect the PC to a nasty remote server in China. Around 2,200 messages have been reported till date.
Zbot commonly referred as Zeus steals the information about confidential data from every infected computer.
It makes use of malicious PDF file [...]
Security researchers at RSA spotlight the cyber-infrastructure that props up malware by providing so-called bulletproof hosting to attackers. Troyak, as it turns out, is just one of five upstream providers surrounding a core of eight bulletproof networks tied to malware such as Zeus.
– Researchers in EMC’s RSA
security division have uncovered an extensive infrastructure propping up the
attackers behind the Zeus Trojan.
The findings reflect part of the reason the disruption
of Troyak-AS March 9 only caused Zeus traffic to slow, as opposed to stopping
it in its tracks. Troyak i…
A Trojan hidden within software for the Energizer Duo USB battery charger may have been around since May 2007, according to Symantec. The software, which affects Windows machines, has been taken off the market by Energizer. Fortunately, the Trojan can be fought with a few easy fixes.
– The backdoor Trojan bundled with software
for the Energizer Duo USB battery charger may have been active for nearly
three years, security researchers have found.
According to Symantec’s
analysis, there is evidence that the Trojan dates back to May 10, 2007.
quot;It’s really impossible to say…
SecureWorks researcher Joe Stewart revealed details of his research into a Russian botnet that has taken the unusual step of targeting Russian banks – a change from the typical focus on snaring victims in the West. The botnet also has a plug-in architecture that allows attackers to extend its abilities without writing new source code.
– Like the sequel to a
successful movie, the botnet behind the distributed denial of service attacks
that hit the country
of
Georgia during its conflict with Russia in 2008 has been updated.
This time though, the idea
isnt hacktivism its stealing financial data and, unlike in the case of oth…
Police in the U.K. arrested two people tied to the Zeus Trojan, a notorious piece of malware used to steal banking information and another personal data such as passwords for sites like Facebook.
– Authorities in the
U.K.have reportedly arrested two people in connection with using a notorious Trojan in a scheme to steal online banking information.
The man and the woman, both 20, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service in
Manchesterfor violating the 1990 Computer Misuse Act a…
