Category Archives: Deep Knowledge

An Evolution of Android Malware “My How You’ve Grown PJAPPS!” (Part 1)

February 17, 2012 – 3:44 pm

By Nathan Collier We’ve all seen software grow.  We watch as our favorite software adds on new features and becomes better at what it does.  Malware writers are no different, they want their software to have more features as well as steal even more information. PJApps is a good example of this. PJApps is a [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Android, Backdoors, malware, Mobile security, Trojans | Comments (1)

Top 7 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2012

November 17, 2011 – 3:00 am

By Mel Morris From Stuxnet to Sony, a number of cyberattacks emerged in 2011 that experts have predicted for quite some time. I predict 2012 will be even more pivotal, thrusting cybersecurity into the spotlight. These are my top seven forecasts for the year ahead: 1) Targeted, zero-day attacks will be the norm. Looking back [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Internet security industry, Mobile security, Threat Research | Comments (5)

A look inside the SpyEye Trojan admin console

October 24, 2011 – 1:38 pm

By Michael Johnson At Webroot we’ve been researching and chronicling developments with SpyEye since we first saw it in April 2010. This nasty Trojan is the successor to the Zeus Trojan, and it became essentially the main rootkit available for sale after the author of ZeuS left the underground market and sold ZeuS sources to [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Threat Research | Comments (1)

Morto Worm Annoyances Outstrip Functionality

August 31, 2011 – 1:22 pm

By Andrew Brandt The past couple of days have been very busy for a lot of people, following the announcement by Microsoft that they had discovered a new network worm called Morto. After reading the refreshingly thorough writeup about Morto from both Microsoft and our partner Sophos, we were surprised to find that a few [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Botnet activity, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (1)

Black Hat Redux: Botnet Takedown Mistakes to Avoid

August 17, 2011 – 12:00 pm

By Andrew Brandt I’ve worked in the security industry for nearly five years, and it was apparent early on that the most successful people in this field bring to their work a passion and a commitment to protecting not only one’s customers, but to providing a certain level of information about security threats to the [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, spam, Botnet activity, Advanced Malware Removal | Comments (3)

Targeted Malware Infects Windows-based Cash Registers

August 9, 2011 – 5:01 am

By Andrew Brandt A serious, targeted threat from customized malware that steals credit card magnetic strip track data could literally bankrupt your business. That’s the message two security researchers from Trustwave gave at their talk during the Defcon computer security conference Saturday. The researchers, Jibran Ilyas and Nicholas Percoco of Trustwave Spider Labs, respond to [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in phishing, Phishing Trojans, Threat Research | Comments (2)

TDL3 and ZeroAccess: More of the Same?

August 8, 2011 – 4:54 pm

By Marco Giuliani In our previous technical analysis of the ZeroAccess rootkit, we highlighted how it acts as a framework by infecting the machine — setting up its own private space in the disk, first through a dedicated file system on the disk, and more recently by using a hidden and locked directory. This is [...]

By Marco Giuliani | Also posted in Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, rootkit, Smart Malware Tricks, Threat Research, Uncategorized | Comments (3)

Two Days in Vegas: Black Hat in Brief

August 5, 2011 – 7:04 pm

By Andrew Brandt The Black Hat briefings, held Wednesday and Thursday this week, once again brought together some of the best and brightest in the security industry to share knowledge about novel attacks and better defenses against old and new attacks. And, once again, there were some eye opening moments at the conference. Right from [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Android, Enterprises, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Internet security industry, malware, Threat Research | Comments (1)

New Tool Released: Kiss (or Kick) ZeroAccess Goodbye

August 3, 2011 – 2:09 pm

By Andrew Brandt There are fewer types of malware infections more frustrating and annoying than a rootkit with backdoor capabilities. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen the emergence of this new, tough-to-fight infectious code, and its transformation from nuisance to severe threat. With the hard work and perseverance of Threat Research Analyst and [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Advanced Malware Removal, rootkit | Comments (21)

This Week: Black Hat Coverage

August 3, 2011 – 9:45 am

By Andrew Brandt As I do every year, I’ve deliberately traveled to the most inhospitable climate zone in the continental US — that is, the city of Las Vegas — to attend the elite technical conference known as the Black Hat Briefings. Black Hat is not just a technical conference, but a kind of calling [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Leave a Comment
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