Source: Vernon Silver, Bloomberg
On a Monday in July, Ahmed Mansoor sat in his study in Dubai and made the mistake of clicking on a Microsoft Word attachment that arrived in an e-mail, labeled “very important” in Arabic, from a sender he thought he recognized.
Tag Archives: Malware
Spyware leaves trail to beaten activist through Microsoft flaw
October 10, 2012 – 1:42 am
Citizen Lab Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy at SecTor Conference
October 5, 2012 – 4:48 pm
Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy gave a presentation during this year’s SecTor Conference in Toronto, Canada, which took place from 1-3 October, 2012.
Microsoft says operator of malware-ridden site agrees to cooperate in fight against cybercrime
October 2, 2012 – 1:44 pm
Source: AP via The Washington Post
Microsoft says it has settled a computer-fraud case against a website operated by a Chinese businessman that had become a major hub for illicit Internet activity.
DSL modem hack used to infect millions with banking fraud malware
October 1, 2012 – 1:42 pm
Source: Dan Goodin, ars technica
Millions of Internet users in Brazil have fallen victim to a sustained attack that exploited vulnerabilities in DSL modems, forcing people visiting sites such as Google or Facebook to reach imposter sites that installed malicious software and stole online banking credentials.
How millions of DSL modems were hacked in Brazil, to pay for Rio prostitutes
October 1, 2012 – 12:45 pm
Source: Graham Cluley, Naked Security
Fabio Assolini, a researcher for Kaspersky Labs, gave a fascinating presentation at the Virus Bulletin conference in Dallas last week, describing how more than 4.5 million home DSL routers in Brazil were found to have been silently hacked by cybercriminals last year.
Human Rights Groups Targeted by PlugX RAT
September 28, 2012 – 4:12 pm
In this blog post, we report on malware campaigns targeting human rights groups using the PlugX Remote Access Trojan (RAT).
Military smartphone malware designed to steal your life
September 28, 2012 – 1:13 pm
Source: MIT Technology Review
Robert Templeman at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana, and a few pals at Indiana University reveal an entirely new class of ‘visual malware’ capable of recording and reconstructing a user’s environment in 3D.
FinSpy mobile: Configuration and insight
September 27, 2012 – 7:11 am
Source: Trustwave Spider Labs
A couple of weeks ago, Citizen Lab announced the discovery of the mobile component to the previously discovered FinFisher Toolkit.
Modified Enfal variants compromised 874 systems
September 13, 2012 – 3:34 am
Source: Nart Villeneuve, Trend Micro
Modified versions of the Enfal malware, which figured prominently in the LURID attacks, were seen to have infected more than 800 systems worldwide.
Words of war and weakness: Zero-day exploit market
September 10, 2012 – 7:05 am
Source: Tech Week Europe
Governments of both east and west, and large private businesses, are thought to be spending vast portions of their budgets on acquiring zero-day exploits.
