Monday review – the hot 19 stories of the week
Written by v2r on May 13, 2013 – 10:52 am -It's that time of the week again - here's your roundup of everything we wrote in the last seven days....
READ MORE >>Tags: Android, bank heist, Candace Bushnell, casher crew, Chip and PIN, computer security, Data loss, Facebook, Fake anti-virus, fake AV, Google, Law & order, Malware, malware remove, Microsoft, name.com, Patch Tuesday, Phishing, privacy, Redkit, scareware, sex and the city, Snapchat, SpyEye, Subway, Syrian Electronic Army, The Onion, Twitter, virus remove, Vulnerability
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Alleged "SpyEye" mastermind extradited to US
Written by v2r on May 7, 2013 – 2:23 pm -The FBI suspects that 24-year-old Hamza Bendelladj, an Algerian national, developed, marketed, distributed and controlled the notorious botnet toolkit, used to steal millions of dollars from online bank accounts. ...
READ MORE >>Tags: Banking, Banking Fraud, Banking Trojan, computer security, FBI, Featured, Hacker, Hamza Bendelladj, Law & order, malware remove, SpyEye, Thailand, virus remove, Zeus
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New Crimeware In BANCOS Paradise
Written by v2r on April 15, 2013 – 11:03 am -Traditionally, Brazil is known for being the home of BANCOS, which steals the banking information of users and is generally limited to the Latin American region. Other banking Trojans like ZeuS, SpyEye, and CARBERP, which are common in other regions, are not traditionally used by Brazilian cybercriminals and not aimed at Brazilian ...
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News from the Underground: Toolkit/Exploit Kit Developments
Written by v2r on December 1, 2012 – 6:13 am -In the past year, we’ve noticed many changes in how toolkits and exploit kits are being used. For starters, the bad guys are spending more time securing their creations , as well as the servers where their malware will be installed. They do this to prevent leaks, as well as to make things harder for security researchers...
READ MORE >>Tags: Blackhole, citadel, computer security, Data, exploit kits, malware remove, SpyEye, spyware, virus remove, Zeus
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UK’s top ecrime investigator describes a life fighting cybercrime
Written by v2r on September 25, 2012 – 2:30 pm -UK Cybercrime investigator and Sophos consultant Bob Burls has been on the inside of some of the biggest law enforcement takedowns of the last decade....
READ MORE >>Tags: Agobot, Bob Burls, computer security, Featured, Law & order, m00p, Malware, malware remove, NHTCU, pceu, SpyEye, virus remove, Zbot, Zeus
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Baltic SpyEye malware trio sent to prison
Written by v2r on July 1, 2012 – 11:27 pm -Despite the cross-border challenges of prosecuting cybercrime, the cops sometimes do get their man - or men. We think it's worth reminding you when this happens....
READ MORE >>Tags: computer security, conviction, denmark, Featured, Latvia, Law & order, lithuania, Malware, malware remove, Netherlands, New Zealand, pceu, prison, sentencing, SpyEye, stonia, UK, virus remove
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Malware RATs can steal your data and your money, your privacy too
Written by v2r on May 23, 2012 – 5:02 pm -How serious can a malicious software infection be these days? Short answer = Very. The video below is a 16 minute answer to that question using pictures of what a malware infection looks like to the bad guy who manages to get a RAT installed on a victim machine. That's R.A.T. for Remote Access Tool which is one of the most popu...
READ MORE >>Tags: AV, computer security, Dark Comet Rat, darkcomet, Flame, Flamer, General, infect, Malware, malware remove, RAT, remote access too, remote adminsitration tool, Skywiper, spy, SpyEye, Video, virus remove, webcam, Win32/Flamer
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Spring Brings Tax-related Scams, Spams, Phish, Malware, and the IRS
Written by v2r on March 26, 2012 – 8:17 am -Spring is here and that means scam artists are thinking about income taxes and the IRS. Not that scam artists pay income taxes, they just know taxes and any mention of the IRS is a good way to get your attention, which explains a steady stream of deceptive emails targeting tax-paying Americans who now have 22 days to go before thei...
READ MORE >>Tags: AICPA, computer security, Cutwail, General, Intuit, IRS, malware remove, phish, Phishing, SpyEye, tax, Taxes, virus remove, Zeus
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Suo Anteeksi: Polite Variant of ZeuS
Written by v2r on January 31, 2012 – 6:05 am -There's a run of ZeuS (aka Zbot) trojans currently targeting several Finnish banks. And naturally, our Threat Research team has been working on related cases. Interestingly, they've discovered some new ZeuS functionality that hints of SpyEye.This version of ZeuS 2.x (Zbot.AVRC) has two new commands it will accept: user_acti...
READ MORE >>Tags: AVRC, computer security, DLL, FTP, malware remove, Native Finnish, passwords, SpyEye, Threat Research, virus remove, Zbot
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Spam campaign uses Blackhole exploit kit to install SpyEye
Written by v2r on December 15, 2011 – 4:58 pm -This article was written in collaboration with my colleague Jean-Ian Boutin. The Wigon botnet (also known as Cutwail) is being used in a massive spam campaign. A multitude of ruses are used to get the user to click on a link: fake LinkedIn or Facebook notifications, free Windows licenses, fake deliveries etc. The links are pointing...
READ MORE >>Tags: attack, BAWAG, Blackhole, computer security, cve, Facebook, General, information, JAR, Java, Jean Ian Boutin, Malware, malware remove, spam, SpyEye, virus remove, Win32 Spy, Windows
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