SAPA reports: A Slovenian court on Monday sentenced to 58 months in jail Matjaz Skorjanc, the creator of the “Mariposa Botnet”, a vast network of virus-infected computers used by criminal hackers. Skorjanc was found guilty of “creating a malicious computer programme for hacking information systems, assisting in wrongdoings and money laundering”, the Maribor regional court…
Category: Malware
More than 1,400 Financial institutions in 88 Countries targeted by Banking Trojan in 2013
Swati Khandelwal writes: As the year draws to a close, we have seen the number of emerging threats like advance phishing attacks from the Syrian Electronic Army, financial malware and exploit kits, Cryptolocker ransomware infections, massive Bitcoin theft, extensive privacy breach from NSA and many more. The financial malware’s were the most popular threat this year….
New Android Malware Disguises Itself as a Settings App, Steals SMS Messages
Vinay Pidathala, Hitesh Dharmdasani, Jinjian Zhai and Zheng Bu write: FireEye has uncovered and helped weaken one of the largest advanced mobile botnets to date. The botnet, which we are dubbing “MisoSMS,” has been used in at least 64 spyware campaigns, stealing text messages and emailing them to cybercriminals in China. MisoSMS infects Android systems…
TN: Bojangles fast food restaurant hacked, credit card info stolen (update 1)
Mike Krafcik reports that police in Newport, Tennessee are investigating a string of fraudulent credit and debit card charges that they say point back to a fast food restaurant, Bojangles. Police believe the restaurant’s Wi-Fi network may to be blame and the problem may not be isolated to just that one location: In a statement,…
Look What I Found: Moar Pony!
Daniel Chechik and Anat (Fox) Davidi of Trustwave write: In our last episode of “Look What I Found” we talked about a fairly large instance of the Pony Botnet Controller. With the source code of Pony leaked and in the wild, we continue to see new instances and forks of Pony 1.9. One of the latest instances we’ve run…
AHW reports online stores compromised by malware
AHW LLC in Illinois operates a number of online stores. In May, and as noted previously on this blog, they notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that Green Fun Store (greenfunstore.com) had apparently been comprised during the fourth quarter of 2012. They were alerted to the breach in March by their credit card vendor, Evalon,…