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Viruses & Malware
Zeus-family trojan spreads by way of spam botnet
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-12-06 00:45
A new wave of spam campaigns are dispensing "Gameover,” the only banking trojan in the Zeus family to use peer-to-peer (P2P) communications to hide its activities.
The threat of the malware has become even more pervasive now that criminals are using Cutwail, the world's largest spam botnet, to deliver malicious emails containing Gameover. The spam is made to look like messages from top U.S. banks, researchers at Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) found, with the hopes of luring users into clicking attached PDF files.
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Japan's space agency hit by malware for second time in a year
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-12-04 01:18
Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has reportedly suffered its second major malware incident in under a year after an attack that has resulted in the leaking of details of the country's top-secret Epsilon rocket programme.
According to unconfirmed reports, on 21 November JAXA discovered an unidentified data-stealing "virus" on a computer at the Tsukuba Space Centre used to store details of the country's prestigious solid fuel rocket programme.
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New Mac espionage trojan targets Dalai Lama supporters
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-12-04 00:50
A website related to the Dalai Lama is hosting attack code that attempts to surreptitiously install OS X-based spy software on the Macs of people who visit.
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Narilam virus targets Middle East, but isn't like others
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-11-29 01:40
Researchers have detected new cases of a previously discovered worm, Narilam, which is targeting accounting applications in corporate databases throughout the Middle East
Symantec, which on Thursday published an analysis of the malware, found that Narilam had infected Microsoft SQL systems and was capable of modifying and deleting sensitive data and tables of its victims. Narilam, which likely began spreading as early as late 2009, may have capabilities reminiscent of other Middle Eastern-targeted malware, but its source is likely a smaller network, according to Symantec.
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Shylock banking malware can detect remote desktops
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-11-29 01:38
Shylock, a trojan dropper that steals bank account information, is employing a new trick to avoid detection: hiding from researchers who may be studying it via remote desktop connections.
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