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:
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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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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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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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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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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By Dancho Danchev
Everyday, new vendors offering malicious software enter the underground marketplace. And although many will fail to differentiate their underground market proposition in market crowded with reputable, trusted and verified sellers, others will quickly build their reputation on the basis of their “innovative” work, potentially stealing some market share and becoming rich by offering the tools necessary to facilitate cybercrime.
Publicly announced in late 2012, the IRC/HTTP based DDoS bot that I’ll profile in this post has been under constant development. From its initial IRC-based version, the bot has evolved into a HTTP-based one, supporting 10 different DDoS attack techniques as well as possessing a featuring allowing it to heuristically and proactively remove competing malware on the affected hosts, such as, for instance, ZeuS, Citadel or SpyEye.
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