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Action Fraud warns of new wave of Lizard Squad DDoS attacks

• Senin, 16 May 2016
• Penulis: Tim Ring, SC Magazine

A number of UK businesses have been hit by extortion demands from the Lizard Squad hacker group, according to an alert issued by Action Fraud. At least 20 companies have been threatened, with victims told that if they don't pay five bitcoins – just over £1,500 – they will suffer a DDoS attack. ...

2013 DDoS Attacks on US Banking Sector Used Sweden's Military Servers

• Senin, 16 May 2016
• Penulis: Catalin Cimpanu, Softpedia

Swedish newspaper Daily News discovered that a large number of Web servers belonging to Sweden's Armed Forces were hijacked and forced to participate in DDoS attacks against US banking institutions. ...

Richland County Websites including Sheriffs Department Hacked

• Senin, 16 May 2016
• Penulis: Waqas, HackRead

RICHLAND COUNTY WEBSITES INCLUDING SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT WERE HACKED BY PRO-ISIS HACKERS ”TEAM SYSTEM DZ” THIS FRIDAY

Nuclear EK Leveraged In Large WordPress Compromise Campaign

• Jumat, 01 Apr 2016
• Penulis: Jérôme Segura, Malwarebytes Unpacked

Security company Sucuri recently noted a spike in WordPress infections, with a large number of sites getting injected with the same malicious scripts. ...

New self-protecting USB trojan able to avoid detection

• Jumat, 01 Apr 2016
• Penulis: Tomáš Gardo?, WeLiveSecurity (ESET Blog)

A unique data-stealing trojan has been spotted on USB devices in the wild – and it is different from typical data-stealing malware. .....

Nemucod Adds Ransomware Routine

• Jumat, 01 Apr 2016
• Penulis: Roland Dela Paz, Security Research (Fortinet Blog)

It came to our attention that a new, rather peculiar version of Nemucod has been recently landing on users. Nemucod is a well-known JavaScript malware family that arrives via spam email and downloads additional malware to PCs. Most recently, Nemucod has been known to download TeslaCrypt ransomware variants.

Polymorphic Malware on the Rise

• Senin, 28 Mar 2016
• Penulis: Catalin Cimpanu, Softpedia

During the last year, security experts from Webroot have scanned over 27 billion URLs, 600 million domains, 4 billion IP addresses, 20 million mobile apps, 10 million connected sensors, and took a look over 9 billion file behavior records.

New OS X Ransomware KeRanger Infected Transmission BitTorrent Client Installer

• Senin, 28 Mar 2016
• Penulis: Claud Xiao and Jin Chen, Unit 42 (paloalto blog)

On March 4, we detected that the Transmission BitTorrent ailient installer for OS X was infected with ransomware, just a few hours after installers were initially posted. We have named this Ransomware “KeRanger.” The only previous ransomware for OS X we are aware of is FileCoder, discovered by Kaspersky Lab in 2014. As FileCoder was incomplete at the time of its discovery, we believe KeRanger is the first fully functional ransomware seen on the OS X platform. ...

Melrose Police pay hackers in Bitcoin to recover encryption key

• Senin, 28 Mar 2016
• Penulis: Aaron Leibowitz, Wicked Local

The attack came in the form of an email sent to the entire department around 7 p.m. Thursday, Lyle said. One person opened the email, setting off a virus that voided the department’s control of a program it uses to log incident reports, known as TriTech. ....

KeyBase Threat Grows Despite Public Takedown: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

• Senin, 28 Mar 2016
• Penulis: Jeff White, unit 42 (paloalto networks)

In June 2015, Unit 42 reported on a keylogger malware family known as KeyBase, which had first appeared in February 2015. ....