The CryptoWall ransomware has proven to be a profitable criminal enterprise, netting more than $ 1.1 million in six months. More than 1,600 victims have surfaced and more than 5 billion files have been encrypted.
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A new analysis of sinkholes Backoff point-of-sale malware paints a bleak picture of the state of point-of-sale security.
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GameOver Zeus and Sality banking malware infections are rampant in emerging countries such as Turkey where older, unpatched computers are prevalent, and security awareness is low.
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Popular websites TMZ and Java.com are among a handful serving malicious ads redirecting visitors to the Angler Exploit Kit.
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A relatively new form of malware on iOS is estimated to have stolen revenue from 22 million ads and infected upwards to 75,000 devices so far.
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DHS and the Secret Service warned businesses to be proactive about scanning for point-of-sale malware, especially Backoff, which has hit more than 1,000 businesses already.
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Cybercriminals are using a new information-stealing malware program to target companies from the automobile industry in Europe, security researchers warned.
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A growing tendency by business units and workgroups to sign up for cloud services without asking their IT organization creates serious risks for enterprises.
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More than 1,000 major enterprise networks and small and medium businesses in the U.S. have been compromised by a recently discovered malware package called "Backoff" and are probably unaware of it, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a cybersecurity alert on Friday.
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A week after Microsoft pulled a Patch Tuesday update that crippled some Windows 7 PCs, the company has yet to provide a working fix for either the original flaw or the resulting problem.
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Credit and debit card information belonging to customers who did business at 51 UPS Store Inc. locations in 24 U.S. states this year may have been compromised.
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Rogue antivirus malware is on the decline, but a new, simpler version of that threat that simply redirects users to the site of a fake malware protection service has been infecting users around the world.
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A type of malware called Reveton, which falsely warns users they’ve broken the law and demands payment of a fine, has been upgraded with powerful password stealing functions, according to Avast.
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The Community Health Systems data breach has been tied to a Chinese APT gang that has branched out to medical espionage, stealing patient data in an effort to target intelligence on medical device development.
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Put simply, cybercrime, especially financial malware, has the potential to be quite the lucrative affair. That's only because the bad guys have the tools to make their work quick and easy, though. Cripple the automated processes presented by certain malware platforms, and suddenly the threats — and the losses –aren't quite so serious.
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Open source software distribution systems that lack security processes and integrity checks are prone to a new attack that binds malware to a download without modifying the original application.
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Malware deployed against activists in Syria is increasing as the groups deploying these remote access tools become more sophisticated and utilize more complex tactics.
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Although Microsoft has pulled a patch from Windows Update that crippled some computers, it is still pushing a truncated version of the security update that contained the flawed fix.
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Microsoft is quietly recommending that customers uninstall one of last week’s security updates after users reported that it crippled their computers with the infamous “Blue Screen of Death.”
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Heartbleed may have been a software bug, but it highlighted glaring weaknesses in existing hardware architectures, which remain vulnerable to memory-bound attacks, a university researcher said this week.
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Researchers have now identified a new variant of the Cridex malware that has adopted some of the techniques that made GOZ so successful in its day.
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A data breach at Supervalu Inc., one of the largest grocery wholesalers and retailers in the U.S., could affect thousands of people who shopped at the company’s stores in June and July.
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Many malicious software programs used to make a quick exit on virtual machines, a tactic designed to avoid a security check. But that isn’t the case anymore, according Symantec research.
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The Google Safe Browsing service has become an integral part of most of the major browsers, integrating malware alerts, warnings about malicious Web sites and suspicious content. The company has been expanding the capabilities of the service steadily over the last few years, and now Google is adding warnings about deceptive software to the service. […]
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Adobe Systems has released security patches for its Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat products, addressing a total of eight vulnerabilities, including one that is being exploited by attackers.
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Research from Arbor Networks points to a rejuvenated GameOver Zeus botnet that has grown more than 1,800 percent, confirming it has been rebuilt from scratch.
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Google is expanding its safe browsing technology to notify Web users of downloads that appear benign, but actually make unwanted changes to their computers.
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Apple has done well to insulate its iOS mobile operating system from many security issues, but a forthcoming demonstration shows it's far from perfect.
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Google is making a small, but potentially important, change to the way that Gmail handles some special characters in messages as a way to defeat a common tactic used by spammers to confuse recipients and trick them into opening emails.
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The U.S. National Security Agency has a cyberwarfare program that hunts for foreign cyberattacks and is able to strike back without human intervention, according to NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
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A research paper to be delivered next week at USENIX takes a deep look into the reconnaissance nation-states undergo in order to craft email-based attacks against non-governmental organizations.
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BlackBerry's focus on strong security as a key differentiator for its devices does not mean that they're completely free of flaws. The company released security updates Tuesday for both the OS running on its smartphones and for its enterprise server software.
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BlackBerry's focus on strong security as a key differentiator for its devices does not mean that they're completely free of flaws. The company released security updates Tuesday for both the OS running on its smartphones and for its enterprise server software.
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Adobe Systems has released security patches for its Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat products, addressing a total of eight vulnerabilities, including one that is being exploited by attackers.
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Routers appear to be as insecure as ever, after hackers successfully compromised five popular wireless models during a contest at the DefCon 22 security conference, reporting 15 new vulnerabilities to affected vendors.
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Microsoft has issued 29 patches for its Internet Explorer browser, including one fixing a critical vulnerability that would allow a remote attacker to gain access to a computer from over the Internet.
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Amazon Web Services now lets enterprises use two-factor authentication to better protect hosted WorkSpaces virtual desktops.
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Embedded device security emerged as front page news during the recently wrapped up Black Hat and DEF CON events.
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Chip makers want to make hardware the first layer of defense against data breaches and other attacks on tablets and smartphones.
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The corporate firewall is like a dike keeping out a raging sea of malware. Where does it all come from?
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There is a critical vulnerability in millions of Android devices that allows a malicious app to impersonate a trusted application in a transparent way.
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Specialized servers used by many ISPs to manage routers and other gateway devices provisioned to their customers are accessible from the Internet and can easily be taken over by attackers, researchers warn.
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Georgia Tech Research Institute has released an open source threat intelligence gathering tool called BlackForest that automates attack-data mining.
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A new analysis of a long-term APT campaign targeting manufacturers, industrial, pharmaceutical, construction and IT companies in several countries has uncovered fresh details of the attack, including identification of nearly 3,000 victims and the unmasking of the command-and-control infrastructure.
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A new variant of the GameOver Zeus malware has been spotted with a new domain generation algorithm that now generates 1,000 new domains daily.
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A new breed of point-of-sale malware has been found in several recent attacks, and experts say that the tool, known as Backoff, has extensive data stealing and exfiltration capabilities, including keylogging, memory scraping and injection into running processes.
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The PCI Security Standards Council has updated its guidance to help merchants better determine whether third party service providers have implemented security measures to protect credit and debit cardholder data.
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Security researchers demonstrated Thursday flaws that can allow hackers to take over mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) devices from different manufacturers by inserting rogue cards into them.
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Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have cracked the means by which the Turla APT campaign compromises its victims, using a precursor called Epic.
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Vulnerabilities found in remote management software that carriers insist be installed on smart phones and other mobile-enabled devices they sell are likely to put many devices at risk of compromise for some time to come.
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LAS VEGAS–The takedown of the GameOver Zeus malware operation in June got more than its share of attention, but it was the concurrent demolition of the CryptoLocker ransomware infrastructure that may prove to have been the most important part of the operation. That outcome was the culmination of months of behind the scenes work by […]
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Microsoft plans to deliver nine security updates next week, incljuding a pair of critical patches for Internet Explorer and all versions of Windows.
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Two U.S. federal agencies have halted background checks with a contractor that said Wednesday its networks had been breached in a cyberattack suspected to have been coordinated by an unnamed country.
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A new variant of the Citadel banking Trojan has been discovered where the attackers are using Windows remote shell commands to be enable Remote Desktop Protocol access, even if the malware is discovered and removed.
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A security review of network-attached storage (NAS) devices from multiple manufacturers revealed that they typically have more vulnerabilities than home routers, a class of devices known for poor security and vulnerable code.
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The IcoScript remote access Trojan evades network detection by communicating via Yahoo Mail.
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In this special edition of the Digital Underground Podcast, Dennis Fisher interviews fellow Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso and also Threatpost reporter Brian Donohue about the Black Hat security conference, which begins this week in Las Vegas. Topics of discussion include Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller hacking automobiles, Jeff Forristal’s briefing on what promises to be a devastating Android vulnerability, why it’s dumb to host Black Hat in Las Vegas in the dead of summer, and more.
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will begin blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls when the company updates the versions that run on Windows 7 and Windows 8 next week.
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Symantec has released a patch for privilege escalation flaws in its Endpoint Protection product, and the company which found the issues released the exploit code on Tuesday.
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There’s relief available for users who applied a recent Java update that stopped some Web applications from being able to launch.
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A new malware program called Poweliks attempts to evade detection and analysis by running entirely from the system registry without creating files on disk, security researchers warn.
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A report to be released at Black Hat this week will reveal which vehicles are more susceptible to hackers.
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Cisco Systems said attackers could disrupt or intercept traffic in many of its networking products unless a new security update is applied to the software they run.
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A new program that encrypts files to extort money from users highlights that attackers don't need advanced programming skills to create dangerous and effective ransomware threats, especially when strong encryption technology is freely available.
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Our guiding vision at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) is to keep every customer safe from malware. Our research team and machine learning systems, as well as industry engagement teams, function around the clock in an effort to achieve this vision.
As part of these efforts, we are also working with independent antimalware testing organizations towards advancing the relevance of independent testing and reporting. Our goal is to help enable independent antimalware testing organizations to test using malware that has significant customer impact. We have come a long way together, and we can still make significant advances to on-demand file-detection tests.
Current on-demand file-detection tests have some limits. They are typically carried out by first assembling a set of malware samples, and then scanning them with antimalware products. The samples in the testing set that aren’t detected by the products are counted, and then their percentage is calculated. Finally, the undetected percentage is compared to other products to calculate the comparative test results. Some testers use prevalence data to choose their sample set, and some apply curves to the results, but ultimately the fundamental test scheme is the same across the board.
One major issue with the above methodology is that there is no differentiation between samples in the test set. While each sample in the test set has a different impact on customers, in the above methodology, they are weighted equally. This methodology has been of concern to us, as it doesn’t take into account the prevalence-based customer impact.
To evolve antimalware test methodologies, this problem can be solved by weighting these samples according to their customer impact – that is, how often a particular malware sample is encountered by customers. The first step is to apply a weighting based on each specific sample’s prevalence; if the sample has impacted a large number of customers, then it will have a relatively large weight. If it’s impacted relatively few customers, then it will have a smaller weight. However, this approach isn’t quite enough.
Different malware families have different behaviors. For example, some malware families use polymorphism: they change their files with every infection, causing many samples within that family to be relatively low prevalence. In this case if the malware family has a high prevalence, but each sample has a low prevalence, then without a family weight these samples are lost in the mix. To address this, a family weight should be included in addition to the specific sample prevalence weight.
After applying the weights described above, it is possible to generate a risk factor that describes how much risk a customer faces depending on which antimalware product they use when exposed to samples in the test set. On top of that, using geographical sample weights and family weights allows for a geographical risk breakout.
This kind of prevalence-weighted test is a game changer. Shifting to a weighted approach will help customers and antimalware vendors understand how their products perform in the real-world, based on real malware prevalence and impact.
There are a few caveats to such a test. The most significant is the prevalence data itself. Where would this prevalence data come from and how would it be validated? Ideally the data can be generated and composed by an antimalware industry collaboration. The MMPC is contributing to this data and is working with other independent testers to validate it.
With the participation of the MMPC and other antimalware vendor collaborators it is possible to produce the best and most meaningful set of on-demand test results yet. This is the next step in our continued journey with independent antimalware testers to drive more relevancy into testing.
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Security researchers have recently found a vulnerability that could be used to hijack Android apps and devices, but an older issue that can have the same effect remains a significant threat nearly two years after its discovery, according to security firm Bromium.
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The latest release of a Microsoft security tool that's designed to stop exploits lets administrators control when third-party plugins are launched, a long favored route for attackers.
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