There’s a little Michael Myers in the Kelihos botnet; maim it, kill it and it keeps on coming back to wreak more havoc. The 2011 takedown of the Kelihos botnet was one of Microsoft’s high-profile success stories against spambots and the like, yet Kelihos was back for more at the start of 2012 using dynamic fast-flux techniques to avoid detection and further shutdowns.
An August attack on the Saudi Arabian national oil company, Aramco, was reportedly launched in order to hinder oil production at the world’s most valuable company, according to a report published in the New York Times yesterday.
Infections from a nasty bit of malware, generally delivered by the Black Hole Exploit Kit, surged in November, hitting more than 83,000 machines.
Google’s Chrome browser is something of a tough customer for the infamous and widely deployed Blackhole Exploit Kit, according to Blue Coat security researcher, Adnan Shukor.
Online banking customers in Europe are falling victim by the thousands to a new banking Trojan that is infecting Android and BlackBerry devices and is capable of defeating two-factor authentication.
The crew responsible for operating the Gameover variant of the infamous Zeus banking trojan is soliciting the enormous Cutwail botnet’s spamming capacity as an engine to fire off millions of malicious emails that seemingly originate from a number of recognizable U.S. banks.
Tis the season for predictions and security firm Trusteer checks in today with a handful for the upcoming New Year. In a post on the company’s blog, CTO Amit Klein distills Trusteer’s top ideas into an infographic,. The company predicts the security landscape will see more exploits, specifically Man-in-the-Browser malware, targeting Google’s Chrome browser, the further emergence of native 64-bit Windows malware and what the firm claims will be a more drawn out malware lifecycle.
Android malware developers in Japan continue to peddle their product across the Internet and through the Google Play marketplace, undeterred by recent arrests in the nation.
A malware attack against the Tumblr blogging platform has been stifled, but not before tens of thousands of pages were defaced with a racist taunt by a group of Internet trolls known as GNAA.A post on the Tumblr staff blog yesterday said engineers had identified the source of the problem, removed the viral post and restored services. “No accounts have been compromised and you don’t need to take further action,” the post said.
The cybercrime group behind the Citadel malware and Reveton ransomware has upped the stakes with a new extortion technique, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center said today.
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