Duqu trojan found in Indian Servers.. :-(

          Two workers at a web-hosting company called Web Werks told Reuters that officials from India's Department of Information Technology last week took several hard drives and other components from a server that security firm Symantec Corp told them was communicating with computers infected with Duqu. The equipment seized from Web Werks, a privately held company in Mumbai with about 200 employees, might hold valuable data to help investigators determine who built Duqu and how it can be used. But putting the pieces together is a long and difficult...

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PTA decides to ban explicit websites

          We have learned through reliable sources that PTA has decided to ban explicit websites. This information that we have got is of preliminary nature, however officials at PTA confirmed us of decision taken by the authority.           We are yet to ascertain the mechanism and procedures that PTA will adopt for the ban, but it is anticipated that PTA will maintain a list of blacklisted websites based...

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Anonymous Threatened To Erase Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) On November 7th

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Anonymous hackers threatening a Mexican drug cartel

          Anonymous Mexico is going head-to-head with one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in the world, the Mexican cartel Los Zetas. With this Anonymous Proofs that they are not just a common Internet users as cowards behind a keyboard.  Not only has the Anonymous threatened to reveal names, but it has also started making good to its threats.            Mexican Anonymous hackers...

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Most advanced and dangerous malware for Apple products - Why you should be concerned !

          If you are using any Apple product such as iPhone, iPad or iPod, then you shuuld be concerned. Indian security researcher from MalCon, Atul Alex has created an advanced malware for the Apple products which can not only intercept calls of users, steal data, but also provide a reverse VNC to see remotely all the actions of the victim.          The malware can be deployed remotely over the web and...

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Malware for xbox Kinect created by 15 years old Indian researchers

          Indian researchers from MalCon have created a malware that utlizes Microsoft Kinect to secretly capture pictures and upload to a picasa account.          A 15year old Indian security researcher 'Shantanu Gawde' from MalCon Research has created a malware that utilizes the Microsoft xbox kinect controller.           Kinect for Xbox 360, or simply...

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Anonymous DDOS Oakland police site after violence

          Cyber activists associated with Anonymous have targeted the Oakland Police Department (OPD) and other law enforcement agencies that participated in a controversial crackdown against OccupyOakland protestors. A DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attack against the department's website www.oaklandpolice.com is underway, and the website currently is unreachable.          AnonyOps tweet "I'm amazed and proud of #occupyOakland protesters who stood defiant, peaceful in the face of lethal force by Oakland PD." Police fired a number of tear gas canisters, concussion grenades, rubber bullets and non-lethal rounds at demonstrators on Tuesday night, drawing widespread condemnation for the use of...

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Chinese hackers may have attacked U.S. satellites

          Suspected Chinese hackers interfered with two U.S. satellites on four separate occasions in 2007 and 2008. On one occasion, the attackers had enough access to take complete control of one of the satellites but chose not to doso, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek story that cites a soon-to-be published report by a congressional commission.           According to Bloomberg, a Landsat-7 earth observation satellite managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey and a Terra AM-1 satellite managed by NASA were both attacked by hackers thought to be from China. The attackers appear to have gained access to the satellites via compromised ground control systems at the Svalbard Satellite Station...

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Most British students are vulnerable to identity theft: ICO

          Launches privacy awareness campaign to inform students how to keep their social lives private The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has revealed that British students are vulnerable to identity theft and that four out of ten students online (42%) are concerned that personal information available about them online might affect their future employment prospects.           Launching its 2011 Student Brand Ambassador campaign, the ICO said, citing YouGov data, that many students are not adequately protecting themselves against the risk of identity theft. It said 1 in 3 (33%) students who have lived at a previous address while at university still have not arranged the redirection of all...

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Mario Kart on Facebook? Fast-spreading scam hits many users' accounts

    A scam claiming that you can play Mario Kart on Facebook has spread between many Facebook users. Play Mario Kart on Facebook with your Friends! Join the multiplayer mayhem NOW! Click here to play           The messages do not just take the form of public status updates, but have also been distributed via private messages:           If you click on the link (no, not...

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Tour de France cheat faces suspended sentence in malware case

          In 2006, American cyclist Floyd Landis won the Tour de France competition. He was subsequently stripped of his title after an anti-doping lab reported it had found unusual levels of testosterone in his body. Landis spent years attempting to overturn the decision, spending millions of dollars in the process, before finally confessing to doping in 2009.           While Landis was still protesting...

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The Pink Profile Pic Facebook virus hoax

          Have you noticed the profile pics of some of your Facebook friends have acquired a pink tinge? Rumours have hit the social networking site that the Facebook app that turns your profile picture pink carries "keylogger malware" that can spy on your keypresses, and steal your passwords - not just from Facebook, but from online banks you may log into as well.           One warning reads as...

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So I Googled your name and found.. a Twitter phishing attack!!

          Sometimes they claim to have found a funny picture of you, say that you look like you've lost weight, or that there's a horrible blog going around about you.           Whatever the nature of the disguise used by phishing attacks on Twitter, the modus operandi is always the same. Scammers will send you a message, possibly from the compromised account of one of your Twitter followers, and use a...

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India's leading telecom Company BSNL hacked by Pakistani Hacker

          A Pakistani hacker "KhantastiC haX0r" today hack into the official website of India's leading telecom Company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). This is not 1st time when BSNL become victim of any cyber attack. Pakistani Hackers hit Indian Corporate and National Government Websites, Servers time by time Just for FUN or so called Cyber War b/w these two countries. This year 2011, Attack/ defacement are less than the records...

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Android becomes top platform for malware: Kaspersky Lab

          Android mobile malicious apps are targeting users' personal data, banking services. Computer security company Kaspersky Lab has revealed that Google's Android platform has established itself as the most popular for mobile malicious programs, overtaking other platforms as well as 'generic' Java malware.             In September 2011 alone, the number of newly discovered malware for Android-based devices increased by more than 30%, according to data form the Moscow-based company. It said that the second half of 2011 has been an active one for cyber criminals, who have been increasingly looking for chances to set up new scams in the mobile device environment.  More alarmingly, Kaspersky...

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Latest Security Flaw in Skype Enables IP address & Location Tracking

          The serious breach in the widely-used, internet video chat program means that any evil computer nerd could easily hunt down users' whereabouts, according to a study co-authored by an NYU-Poly professor.            The flaw in Skype could allow a skilled hacker to find out the IP address from which a user has logged in to Skype, thereby determining the location of Skype users, which...

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Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack..!!

          In last two days several Cyber attacks breach corporate and National Security of Japan. First, Japanese parliament hit by cyber attack from China according to Report. A server located in China was used for the attack on the Japanese Lower House. This led to an extraordinary meeting of a key subcommittee after it emerged that hackers had access to emails and documents belonging to the chamber's 480 legislators for at least...

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Occupy Wall Street : Anonymous Hackers Publish Law Enforcement Data

          Anonymous, the Internet “hactivist” group, today, apparently in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, hacked into several different police databases and leaked sensitive personal data, among them passwords, names, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers from the Boston Police Patrolmens’ Association (BPPA) and Birmingham, Alabama Police Department, according to several reports. Additionally, Anonymous...

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Hackers leak Citigroup CEO’s personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests

          The mobile phone number and home address of Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, have been placed on the web by hacking group CabinCr3w in retaliation for the cuffing of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street demo.            The hackers said in a statement online that they had accessed the data - which also included family information and some financial figures - and ...

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Spammers using shortened URL links to trick anti-spam measures: Symantec

          October Intelligence report discovers premium rate SMS dialer targeting users in Eastern Europe. Computer security company Symantec has revealed that for the first time, spammers have established a genuine URL shortening service that is publically available and will generate real shortened links.           In the results of the October 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report. The company said that during 2010, 92% of spam emails contained URLs and the use of shortened links makes it harder for traditional anti-spam countermeasures to block the messages based on fingerprinting the URL. Legitimate services are much quicker to respond to abuse, and spammers are preying on the knowledge that...

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SpyEye banking trojan: now with SMS hijacking capability

          The SpyEye banking trojan has acquired the ability to reroute one-time passwords sent to victims' cellphones, a measure that bypasses protections more and more financial institutions are adopting. According to a blog post published Wednesday by a researcher from security firm Trusteer, SpyEye was recently observed trying to trick victims into reassigning the cellphone number they use to receive one-time passwords from their banks by SMS, or short message service.            The social-engineering ploy is contained in fraudulent pages injected into their online banking sessions that falsely claim they have been assigned a unique telephone number dedicated for that purpose and a special...

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Anonymous disabled more than 40 child pornography websites

            Hactivists from Anonymous took control over 40 websites with child pornography and disclosed the list of 1500 claimed users of the sites on Pastebin.           In their message on Pastebin hackers described the way they found a darknet site named Hidden Wiki, an index of sites concealed from casual internet users and search engines. Anonymous found a section “Hard Candy”, dedicated to...

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Android malware under blog control says Trend Micro

          Trend Micro is reporting a Chinese Android malware that operates partly under the command and control of a blog. The ANDROIDOS_ANSERVERBOT.A malware is disguised as an e-book reader offered on a third-party Chinese app store. It uses two command and control servers, one of them served out of a blog with encrypted posts. Posts to the blog identify the URL of the primary C&C server.           This presumably gives the malware's makers a handy way to move their C&C server around to avoid detection. The blog also hosts new copies of ANDROIDOS_ANASERVERBOT.A which are downloaded when the software connects (see Trend Micro's flowchart for the process).          ...

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German Police Used Trojan to Tap Skype Calls and IM Chats

          German researchers captured and analyzed a new Trojan horse which they claim might be used by police to tap Skype calls and IM messages.  According to German laws it is legal to use a "Bundestrojaner" ("Federal Trojan"), which have being used by police to record VoIP traffic for many years. The new R2D2 (0zapftis) Trojan can also download updates from the internet, log keystrokes, take screenshots and record IM chat conversations.           The German chancellor's press secretary denied that the R2D2 trojan has been used by the BKA, the German Federal criminal police. This denial has failed to stem speculation.  One popular theory is that Trojan might have been created by Digitask...

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Hackers using Gaddafi news to send malware

          Email claims to be from 'AFP Photo News', offers 'bloody photos' of Gaddafi's death. Spammers and cybercriminals are using the death of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and the Agence France-Presse (AFP) photos bait to trick Internet users into downloading malware. Computer security firm Sophos has warned that cybercriminals are spreading an email that looks like a forwarded message. The mails sometimes have "AFP Photo News" pictures of a bloodied Gaddafi.           "In reality, opening the attached file on a Windows computer puts PCs at risk of malware infection," Sophos said. Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley said the "death of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi has almost...

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Microsoft recovers from Microsoft's official YouTube channel hack.. :-)

          Hackers have taken control of Microsoft's official YouTube channel, removed the company's videos and replaced them with ones of their own.           At the time of writing, the hackers are still uploading new videos to the channel. The ones we have seen so far are typically three or four seconds in length, and typically call on other internet users to post video responses, create new background...

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Data breach more stressful than divorce, say IT managers

          IT managers feel that getting a divorce or losing their job is less stressful than looking after company confidential data.  New research by Websense, a content security and data theft protection company, has found that for IT managers the stress of managing their company confidential data is greater than divorce, managing personal debt, or a minor car accident.           Websense commissioned independent research firm Dynamic Markets to survey 1,000 IT managers and 1,000 non-IT employees in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia about the latest threats to corporate and personal security, including modern malware and advanced persistent threats (APTs). The research revealed that IR managers...

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Duqu, Stuxnet are different worms: Kaspersky

          It is believed the Stuxnet virus was originally developed to disrupt Iran's nuclear programme. Analysis by computer security experts has showed the worm exploited no fewer than four previously unknown vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows to take over industrial control systems, making it more sophisticated than any virus seen before. Once inside a Windows systems, the self-replicating code looks for connections to Siemens industrial control systems exploiting more vulnerabilities in the Siemens' own operating system to make clandestine adjustments to industrial processes.          Stuxnet targeted industrial control systems sold by Siemens that are widely used around the globe to manage everything...

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