Cybercriminals offer HTTP-based keylogger for sale, accept Bitcoin

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By Dancho Danchev

In 2013, Liberty Reserve and Web Money remain the payment method of choice for the majority of Russian/Eastern European cybercriminals. Cybercrime-as-a-Service underground market propositions, malware crypters, R.A.Ts (Remote Access Trojans), brute-forcing tools etc. virtually every underground market product/service is available for purchase through the use of these ubiquitous virtual currencies.

What’s the situation on the international underground market? Next to accepting PayPal and consequently all major credit cards, we’ve been observing an increase in market propositions starting to accept Bitcoins. Is this a trend or a fad, and does the currency’s P2P model about to be embraced ecosystem-wide due to its (current) pseudo-anonymous model?

Let’s find out.

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Android.TechnoReaper Downloader Found on Google Play

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By Nathan Collier

We have found a new threat we are calling Android.TechnoReaper. This malware has two parts: a downloader available on the Google Play Market and the spyware app it downloads. The downloaders are disguised as font installing apps, as seen below:

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Cybercriminals impersonate New York State’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), serve malware

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By Dancho Danchev

Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising tens of thousands of bogus emails impersonating New York State’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in an attempt to trick users into thinking they’ve received an uniform traffic ticket, that they should open, print and send to their town’s court.

In reality, once users open and execute the malicious attachment, their PCs will automatically join the botnet operated by the cybercriminal/cybercriminals behind the campaign.

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Fake Amazon ‘Your Kindle E-Book Order’ themed emails circulating in the wild, lead to client-side exploits and malware

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By Dancho Danchev

Kindle users, watch what you click on!

Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing tens of thousands of fake Amazon “You Kindle E-Book Order” themed emails in an attempt to trick Kindle users into clicking on the malicious links found in these messages. Once they do so, they’ll be automatically exposed to the client-side exploits served by the Black Hole Exploit Kit, ultimately joining the botnet operated by the cybercriminal/cybercriminals that launched the campaign.

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Citibank ‘Merchant Billing Statement’ themed emails lead to malware

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By Dancho Danchev

Over the past 24 hours, we’ve intercepted yet another spam campaign impersonating Citibank in an attempt to socially engineer Citibank customers into thinking that they’ve received a Merchant Billing Statement. Once users execute the malicious attachment found in the fake emails, their PCs automatically join the botnet operated by the cybercriminal/cybercriminals.

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New version of DIY Google Dorks based mass website hacking tool spotted in the wild

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By Dancho Danchev

Need a compelling reason to perform search engine reconnaissance on your website, for the purpose of securing it against eventual compromise? We’re about to give you a good one.

A new version of a well known mass website hacking tool has been recently released, empowering virtually anyone who buys it with the capability to efficiently build “hit lists” of remotely exploitable websites for the purpose of abusing them in a malicious or fraudulent fashion. Relying on Google Dorks for performing search engine reconnaissance, the tool has built-in SQL injecting options, the ability to add custom exploits, a proxy aggregation function so that no CAPTCHA challenge is ever displayed to the attacker, and other related features currently under development.

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Rootkit infection sporadically redirects search results in hopes users ‘just live with it’

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By Tyler Moffitt

Recently we have seen an increase in fake installer scams attempting to trick computer users into installing disguised rootkits directly on their machines. In this post, we want to highlight how a scam like this can be installed and infect a machine, including behavior to watch out for as well as how to remedy the situation if it were to arise.

In the case of this infection, we are utilizing a bogus Adobe Flash Player installer. Normally, this file would be downloaded from a website after a message stating “You need the latest version of Flash to view this video” appears. The file being downloaded would have a random name, such as ‘flashplayerinstallerxxxx.exe’.
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