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The Source Code for The Carberp Financial Malware Has Been Leaked Online
Jun 27, 2013The source code for the Carberp financial malware has been leaked online, increasing the risk that other cybercriminals will create their own variants based on it, according to researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Security Researchers From Group-IB Have Uncovered a Cyberfraud Operation
May 17, 2013Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB have uncovered a cyberfraud operation that uses specialized financial malware to target the customers of several major Australian banks. Over 150,000 computers, ...
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Groub-IB Have Identified Malware Designed to Steal Credentials From Specialized Software
Apr 22, 2013Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations company Groub-IB have recently identified a new piece of malware designed to steal login credentials from specialized software used to trade stocks and other securities online. ...
Tags: Researchers, Trading Software
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POS Systems Has Already Been Used to Compromise Thousands of Payment Cards
Apr 3, 2013A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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POS Malware Is Not a New Type of Threat,But It's Increasingly Used by Cybercriminals
Apr 1, 2013A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics ...
Tags: POS malware, computer, net
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Attackers Are Actively Using a Remote Code Execution Exploit Working Against Adobe Reader
Feb 17, 2013Researchers from security firm FireEye claim that attackers are actively using a remote code execution exploit that works against the latest versions of Adobe Reader 9, 10 and 11. "Today, we identified that a PDF zero-day [vulnerability] ...
Tags: FireEye, remote code, Adobe Reader
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Many of Domain Names Used by a Cybercriminal Gang to Control Computers Infected with Virut
Jan 24, 2013Many of the domain names used by a cybercriminal gang to control computers infected with the Virut malware were disabled last week in a coordinated takedown effort, Spamhaus, an organization dedicated to fighting spam, announced Saturday. ...
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The Virut Botnet Suffered a Major Setback Last Week
Jan 23, 2013The Virut botnet suffered a major setback last week, after it was announced that many of the domain names used by a cybercriminal gang to control computers infected with the malware had been disabled. This was the result of coordinated ...
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The Creators of Carberp Have Started to Sell an Improved Version of The Malware
Dec 21, 2012The creators of Carberp, a banking Trojan program used exclusively in Russian-speaking countries, have started to sell an improved version of the malware together with custom scripts that would allow cybercriminals to target U.S. online ...
Tags: Carberp Malware, Banks, Computer Products
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Cybercriminals No Longer Control One of The World's Largest Spam Botnets,Grum
Dec 20, 2012Cybercriminals no longer control one of the world's largest spam botnets, Grum, because all of the servers the botnet relied on for receiving commands were shut down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. The last Grum ...
Tags: Cybercriminals, spam botnets, Grum, servers
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PDF Exploit Bypasses The Sandbox Security Features in Adobe Reader X and Xi
Nov 8, 2012Cybercriminals are using a new PDF exploit that bypasses the sandbox security features in Adobe Reader X and XI, in order to install banking malware on computers, according to researchers from Russian security firm Group-IB. The zero-day ...
Tags: PDF, Cybercriminals, Adobe Reader, Group-IB