Malware

Cheap Android smartphones pre-loaded with DeathRing Chinese malware

You go to retailer shop to buy a new smartphone. you trust the manufacturer that its clean and safe to use. But its not always the case. Some cheap smartphones are pre-loaded with Malware. The malware is much difficult to uninstall and using evasion techniques that is hard to detect. The malware, called DeathRing, is […] Continue reading →

Trojan Android SMS App Found by Researchers on Google Play Store

A malicious android app with the name “Thai Fun Content” found by researchers on Google Play that was pretending to be a downloader for wallpapers, music and videos. The Trojan application requests its victims to send SMS to a premium number in exchange of the downloaded contents. When doing so, the victims actually subscribe to […] Continue reading →

Home Depot Hacked - Affect 60 Million Credit Card holders

Home Depot finally confirmed that its payments system were breached. The US retail chain working with law enforcement over compromise of payment terminals across stores in the country. Chief executive of the hacked firm Frank Blake admitted the breach in a statement issued on the company website. The retailer said the exact number of customers […] Continue reading →

Operation Arachnophobia - Cyber Espionage campaign from Pakistan

Operation Arachnophobia - Researchers from ThreatConnect and FireEye discovered a cyber espionage campaign originated from Pakistan, targets Indian Government. ThreatConnect - a new threat analysis company partnered with researchers from FireEye lab to conduct a joint investigation on a series of targeted attacks that could be linked to the Pakistan. According to the research, Operation […] Continue reading →

DGA.Changer Malware: Unique malware evades sandboxes

The hackers hacked php.net and deployed an exploit kit with five different malware types. One malware found by security vendor Seculert, had a unique cloaking property for evading sandboxes. The company called the malware DGA.Changer Continue reading →

Chinese Ransomware changes the Windows Login Password, forces to pay to Unlock Computer

Ransomware - a new type of chinese version changes the Windows Login Password and force users to pay to unlock their computer. Symantec Security Researchers found a ransomlock malware, written in Easy Programming Language, spread mostly through a popular Chinese instant messaging service. Once a computer is compromised, It changes the login credentials of the current user and […] Continue reading →

Facebook hacked by Java Zero Day exploit

Facebook - a social networking giant with one billion active users said on Friday that it has been attacked by an unidentified group of hackers in January, fortunately no user information was compromised during the attack. What is really interesting is the level of sophistication of the malware based attack that eluded security defense, it […] Continue reading →

China on the top of malware infected country in 2012

According to Panda Security Annual Security Report 2012, 27 million new strains of malware were created last year alone and 74,000 new samples were released every day. Delving into geographical analysis, China topped the list of countries with 54.89 percent of infected PCs, followed closely by South Korea at 54.15 percent and Taiwan at 42.14 […] Continue reading →

Banking Malware Shylock spreads via Skype to target specific Countries

The home Trojan-banker known as Shylock has updated with new functions. It is noticed that Shylock is now capable of spreading using the popular Voice over IP service and software application, Skype. This allows the malicious Trojan-banker to infect more hosts and continue to be a prevalent threat, according to CSIS Security Group. Shylock is one […] Continue reading →

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