KINS Banking Trojan a Successor to Citadel?
A new strain of banking malware called KINS has been discovered for sale on a closed Russian underground forum.
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Faux FBI Ransomware Targeting OS X Users
The FBI alerted users about a strain of ransomware targeting Mac OS X machines.
Tortilla Tool Anonymously Routes TCP, DNS Traffic Through Tor
A security researcher is expected to unveil Tortilla, an open source tool that anonymously routes TCP and DNS traffic through Tor, at the same time bridging a gap in Windows-based tools for security researchers who use Tor.
Attacks involving the njRAT remote access Trojan have spiked in the last 30 days against high-value targets in the Middle East.
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center reports of unusual behavior from the Vobfus and Beebone malware families where each malware variant continuously downloads a version of the other.
A new variant of the Citadel banking malware was discovered, this one delivering localized content for European targets that include not only banks but major ecommerce sites such as Amazon.
Most warnings emanating from the Google Safe Browsing program are triggered by malware rather than phishing sites, a new Google Transparency Report says.
A tool, PinkStats, has been used by a number of Chinese attack crews in targeted operations against governments, universities and other organizations over the last four years.
The source code for the Carberp Trojan, which typically sells for $40,000 on the underground, has been leaked and is now available to anyone who wants it. The leak has echoes of the release of the Zeus crimeware source code a couple of years ago and has security researchers concerned that it may lead to a similar crop of new Trojans and crimeware kits.
A variant of the Dirt Jumper DDoS engine called Drive has been detected. Drive includes new capabilities and has already targeted a number popular destinations on the Internet.
