Last weekend around 40 South Korean sites, including the Presidential, Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry websites, faced a sophisticated DDOS attack with malicious payloads. The command and control (C&C) servers are set on two layers spread over more than 10 countries. Also, it has a self destruction routine that can render the infected system unbootable by overwritting the MBR sectors [...]

A malicious advertisement has been found inside the game Farm Town on Facebook. The 9.6 million players are being warned about fake security warnings popping up that are designed to mislead people into paying for antivirus protection they don’t need. Sandi Hardmeier who studies malicious advertisements said the users were redirected from Facebook through several domains and ended up on [...]

Oficla/Sasfis malware is pretty common these days in  amazon shopping spam emails. The idea is quite old and simple: you will receive an e-mail with an attachment. The attachment is a zip file and once you extract and run the executable file you become infected. Below we’ll show you some of the details of this attack: You will receive a [...]

The Vietnamese government denies it’s involvement in the current cyberattacks used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam. “The perpetrators may have political motivations and may have some allegiance to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” said McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz. “The comments are groundless,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga said on Monday. [...]

Waledac Bot Net infections Map Photo:  Microsoft Waledac is a worm that is capable of harvesting and forwarding password information. It is capable of receiving commands from a remote server. Commands include instructions on functions to perform (for example, update malware components or send information from the infected computer). Waledac spreads in an e-mail attachment. The name of the e-mail [...]

Trusteer announced the launch of a service that will allow banks to remotely investigate their customers’ computers if it is suspected the PC has been hacked. The service named Flashlight enables banks’ security experts to quickly identify what types of malicious software programs customers are encountering in order to build better defenses, said Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer’s CEO. Flashlight detects malicious [...]

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Zeus botnet the data stealing malware is Back Up.  Last week there was a victory against Zeus – the ISP (Kazakhstan-based Troyak.org ) suspected of hosting its command-and-control servers were brought down. Unfortunately it was a short term victory the Servers are back up with a new upstream provider. Zeus Bot Net top Infected Countries “We’ve checked the IP addresses [...]