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Credit to Author: Ankita Ashesh| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:47:07 +0000
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The post Websites compromised in ‘Decimal IP’ campaign appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Maor Schwartz| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:27:56 +0000
Veronique Loquet is the proud owner of AL’X Communication, No Such Con Co-founder, Security Vacation Club member and infosec enthusiastic! Questions Q: How many years have you been working in the security field? A: I have been in the security field since 2002. Q: What was your motivation for getting into the security field in … Continue reading Know your community – Veronique Loquet
Read MoreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:32:25 +0000
The strange story of Amir Taaki—Bitcoin coder, anti-ISIS revolutionary, and British terrorism defendant. The post How an Anarchist Bitcoin Coder Found Himself Fighting ISIS in Syria appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:10:00 -0700
A new variant of the Mirai IoT malware was spotted in the wild when it launched a 54-hour DDoS attack against an unnamed U.S. college.
While the attack occurred on February 28, Imperva Incapsula is informing the world about it today. The researchers believe it is a new variant of Mirai, one that is “more adept at launching application layer assaults.”
The average traffic flow was 30,000 requests per second (RPS) and peaked at about 37,000 RPS, which the DDoS mitigation firm said was the most it has seen out of any Mirai botnet so far. “In total, the attack generated over 2.8 billion requests.”
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Credit to Author: Chris Navarrete & Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:29:47 -0700
In the blog we posted on March 22, FortiGuard Labs introduced a new Word Macro malware sample that targets both Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. After deeper investigation of this malware sample, we can confirm that after a successful infection the post-exploitation agent Meterpreter is run on the infected Mac OS X or Windows system. Meterpreter is part of the Metasploit framework. More information about Meterpreter can be found here. For this to work, the attacker’s server must be running Metasploit as the controller to control the…
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:55:00 -0700
The source code for a new Trojan program that targets banking services has been published online, offering an easy way for unskilled cybercriminals to launch potent malware attacks against users.
The Trojan is called Nuclear Bot and first appeared for sale on underground cybercrime forums in early December for $2,500. It can steal and inject information from and into websites opened in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome and can also open a local proxy or hidden remote desktop service.
These are all features commonly seen in banking Trojans, as they’re used by attackers to bypass the security checks of online bank websites to perform fraud. For example, the proxy and remote desktop functionality allows hackers to initiate rogue transactions through the victims’ browsers after they have been tricked into providing the second authentication factor.
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Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:54:19 +0000
A phishing scam to try and get you to hand over your battle.net account details is offering a free pet. There’s no free pet.
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