Kelihos Botnet with 110,000 PCs take down finally

       Botnets are particularly insidious, using thousands of virus-infected computers which their owners are unaware are being used for sending out spam, launching denial-of-service attacks and stealing data. But taking down a botnet poses challenges. The main problem is that legitimate security companies can’t use the same type of weapons as criminals.           A group of malware experts from security...

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A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud

         A Russian Hacker, who was part of an elaborate Cyber attack that used Zeus Banking Trojan in U.S. visas to move cash stolen from U.S. businesses out of the country was sentenced on March 23 to two years in U.S. federal prison.         Nikokay Garifulin received a two-year prison term for his involvement in a global bank fraud scheme that used hundreds of phone bank accounts to steal over $3 million...

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Japan orders Google to remove auto-complete function over privacy complaint

          Google has been ordered to disable part of its autocomplete function in Japan after complaints it violates privacy. According to a report by The Japan Times, the court was acting on a petition accusing Google’s autocomplete feature of being defamatory.           The petition was filed by a Japanese man (name not disclosed) who alleged that some of the autocomplete suggestions...

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Return of Lulzsec, Dump 170937 accounts from Military Dating Site

        Another Hacking group after Lulzsec, comes with name LulzsecReborn has posted names, usernames, passwords, and emails of 170,937 accounts on MilitarySingles.com on Pastebin as part of the group’s Operation Digiturk. LulzSec was a major ticket item last year as the group hacked a number of high profile Web sites all in the name of the “lulz.” After their so called “50 Day Cruise,” the group broke up and went their separate ways.Hacker claim that, There are emails such as @us.army.mil ; @carney.navy.mil ; @greatlakes.cnet.navy.mil ; @microsoft.com...

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Facebook profiles can be hijacked by Chrome extensions malware

          Cybercriminals are uploading malicious Chrome browser extensions to the official Chrome Web Store and use them to hijack Facebook accounts, according to security researchers from Kaspersky Lab. The rogue extensions are advertised on Facebook by scammers and claim to allow changing the color of profile pages, tracking profile visitors or even removing social media viruses.            ...

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Facebook Profile Viewer rogue application spreads on social network

          A rogue application which claims to allow you to see who has viewed your Facebook profile is spreading between accounts on the popular social network. Messages claiming that Facebook has issued a new update which allows you to check who has visited your profile are making the rounds. New Update from facebook. Now you can check who visited your profile. check here -------->>>FAŒBOOK PROFILE VIEWER ®<<<<------Who...

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Breaching Hundreds of KPN Servers

          Dutch Police Arrest 17-year-old Suspected of The Dutch High Tech Crime Team has arrested a 17-year-old suspected of compromising customer account data on hundreds of servers belonging to telecommunications operator KPN. The teenager was arrested last Tuesday in the Dutch town of Barendrecht, where police seized an encrypted computer, two laptops and other storage media including external hard drives, DVDs and USB sticks, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service announced on Monday.           "He...

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Justin Bieber's Twitter account - hacked!

          Lend a little sympathy to pop star Justin Bieber today, after his Twitter account was hacked and an unauthorised message was sent to his 19 million fans. 19 million my ass. #biebermyballs           Fortunately the message was rapidly deleted, and it appears that the account was compromised more to spread embarrassing graffiti rather than with more malicious intention. Just imagine how much worse...

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User IDs and Clear-Text Passwords Leaked from US Army’s CECOM

          Black Jester, the hacker who yesterday demonstrated that he managed to gain unauthorized access to a NASA site, leaked sensitive contract information from a site connected to the US Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM).            A number of 30 record sets that include names, user IDs, physical addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, and clear-text passwords were published in a Pastebin document. “Old crappy server, but has good info inside it. The list is not complete...

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Carberp Banking Trojan Scam - 8 Arrested in Russia

     8 Men suspected of being involved in the Carberp phishing scam have been arrested in Russia. The men were arrested after a joint investigation by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and Federal Security Service (FSB).     According to the MVD, the investigation found that two brothers were the ringleaders of the gang, and developed a plan to steal money from the accounts of online banking customers. The eight suspects allegedly...

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Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved

       An appeal for help from the programming community has allowed antivirus analysts to classify the unknown language used to develop key components of the Duqu Trojan. The sections responsible for downloading and executing additional modules in the Duqu Trojan, referred to by some as Stuxnet 2.0, were written in standard C++.             Kaspersky Lab experts now say with a high degree of certainty that the Duqu framework was written using a custom object-oriented extension to C, generally...

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The Pirate Bay plans Low Orbit Server Drones to beat Censorship

          One of the world’s largest BitTorrent sites “The Pirate Bay” is going to put servers on GPS-controlled aircraft drones in order to evade authorities who are looking to shut the site down. In a Sunday blog post, The Pirate Bay announced new “Low Orbit Server Stations” that will house the site’s servers and files on unmanned, GPS-controlled, aircraft drones. TPB said:          ...

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Samsung Rolls Out Ice Cream Sandwich for the Galaxy S II

After a very long waiting period, Galaxy S2 owners have a sign of relief as Samsung has finally rolled out the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone. The official announcement was made via the company’s Samsung Tomorrow blog stating that the update will initially be available in Europe, with Poland, Hungary and Sweden mentioned specifically, as well as in Korea. This initial phase will make way for a wider roll out soon after.  The...

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