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New Trojan For Mac Used In Attacks On Tibetan NGOs
The security firm Alienvault reports that its own research on phishing attacks against non governmental organizations supporting the Tibetan Government in Exile is now being used as bait in a new round...
View ArticleMac OS X, Windows Backdoors Used in New APT Attacks
A new Mac OS X backdoor variant has begun making the rounds online, targeting a Turkic ethnic group in central Asia, according to a post on Securelist’s blog earlier today.read more
View ArticleNew Version of Sykipot Trojan Linked To Targeted Attacks On Aerospace Industry
A new version of the Sykipot Trojan is being pushed to unsuspecting users in a wave of online attacks, including targeted attacks on attendees of an international aerospace conference, according to...
View ArticleResearcher Finds Three New Exploits Targeting Latest IE Zero-Day
A researcher at AlienVault has discovered three new servers delivering exploits targeting the latest zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Jamie Blasco, AlienVault Labs manager, said the one of...
View ArticleNew Attacks Leverage Adobe Sandbox Bypass Against Uyghur Activists
Attackers with a control infrastructure based in China are leveraging the same vulnerability exploited by Miniduke to attack Uyghur and Tibetan activists with new exploits.read more
View ArticleHoneypot Snares Two Bots Exploiting Bash Vulnerability
Two malware samples trying to exploit the Bash vulnerability, both DDoS bots, were snared in a honeypot belonging to AlienVault Labs.
View ArticleShellshock Exploits Targeting SMTP Servers at Webhosts
SANS Internet Storm Center reports attacks against SMTP servers using Shellshock exploits to create a DDoS botnet.
View ArticleFour Distinct Watering Hole Attacks Dropping ScanBox Keylogger
PwC has published research on four watering hole attacks likely carried out by different attackers, all connected by the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.
View ArticleWindows Version of WireLurker Out of Commission Too
A Windows version of the WireLurker malware has been discovered, and like the Mac OS X version, it too is believed to have been shut down.
View ArticleTracking Malware That Uses DNS for Exfiltration
Attackers have long used distributed denial of service attacks to knock domain-name servers offline but over the last several months malware creators have taken to using DNS requests to tunnel stolen...
View ArticleOperation Blockbuster Coalition Ties Destructive Attacks to Lazarus Group
A group of security companies today published evidence linking the Sony hack, Dark Seoul and Operation Troy to the Lazarus Group.
View ArticleFree Mac-Based Ransomware-as-a-Service MacRansom Surfaces
A new, free macOS-based ransomware as a service has surfaced on the darkweb. Researchers say once the malware encrypts users' files, they're "pretty much gone for good."
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