Trojan disguised as Chrome installer discover in the wild

In the past, we have seen how trojans and malware disguised in the form of fake antivirus have been detected and spotted. A latest happening reported by trend-Micro researchers informs of a trojan impersonating as a Google Chrome Installer. It is stealing data while stripping software used to protect online banking transactions. The Trojan at ... [Read More]

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Performing Android malware analysis

In the past few years, malware and Trojans have moved with a rapid pace when it comes to mobile portability. Many famous Trojans and malwares have been detected and analyzed in the past. Android being the latest and a popular mobile platform has become all time famous target of cyber crooks and malware authors. Android ... [Read More]

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Mac OS X trojan Flashback earns $10,000 a day to it masters!

Flashback Trojan was discovered in the wild, exploiting java vulnerabilities on Mac OS X operating systems. The malware brought downfall to the clear image of Apple's operating system. The same java exploit was being incorporated into the infamous BlackHole exploit kit by cyber crooks. According to Symantec experts, Flashback Trojan is generating incomes of as ... [Read More]

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0-Day exploit discovered by hacker in Hotmail

According to a news published at Whitec0de, a critical password reset and setup flaw in Microsoft’s Hotmail was discovered by a hacker hailing from Saudi Arabia. The details of the hack got leaked on an underground forum where the hacking service was advertised for $20 (15 EUR) per hacked Hotmail/Live account. In a few days, ... [Read More]

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XSS flaws reported on NASA’s websites

Many a times while browsing many sites, we have came across severe vulnerabilities in them. Be it Facebook or any other website, we have reported our finding to make sure that site gets a safe from the reported vulnerabilities. XSS and SQL injection have been the two most common flaws that we get to see ... [Read More]

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AnonPaste released by Anonymous to beat cencorship

The rivalry is getting hot in the cyber space. After a series of breaches and demonstrations to mark the anger in the cyber space, hacktivist group Anonymous has come up with something different as to have a better reach in the cyber space. The group has created an alternative to Pastebin which was the primary ... [Read More]

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3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran

The security of payment process online has always been a big concern for the financial houses present around. Even after implementing top security features, a small flaw in the applications makes it damn vulnerable and easy to exploit by cyber criminals. In the past we have seen how top banking houses like Citi bank were ... [Read More]

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No Permissions: Android app that can harvest data without permissions

In the recent days, mobile applications have been targeted by cyber criminals to spread malwares and obtain sensitive information from the user mobile phone. In a latest happening, Experts from the Leviathan Security Group released an Android app called No Permissions to demonstrate how easily malicious users can avoid worrying about the permission restrictions and ... [Read More]

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DoS, Mass defacements and now phone bomb!

Hacktivist groups present around have also used popular attacking methodologies and gain access to their targets to mark their presence and protest. We have seen DDOS attacks, mass defacement, making confidential data public. Hacktivist group "TeaMp0isoN" made used a different technique seen rarely used by hacktivist group. The group crafted a script to perform a ... [Read More]

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Anonymous begins the storm on China

Anonymous, the hacking group that believes in fight for freedom in cyber space, has started a wind against China. And now the wind seems to turn into storm. They claim to have defaced more than 480 web sites over the past few days including government sites, whilst urging Chinese hackers to join its cause. The ... [Read More]

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