The New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced tuesday the unsealing of a nine-count indictment charging VLADIMIR ZDOROVENIN and his son, KIRILL ZDOROVENIN, two Russian citizens, with conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, computer fraud, aggravated identity theft, and securities fraud. According to the indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court, at [...]
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Russian father-son duo extradited to US for cyber fraud and hacking
Posted: 19th January 2012 by infosecindia in Law & Order, NewsTags: cybercriminals, FBI, identity theft, KIRILL ZDOROVENIN, Russia, U.S., VLADIMIR ZDOROVENIN
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Hackers targeted NGOs with Backdoors
Posted: 3rd January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Malware, NewsTags: Amnesty International, cybercriminals, human rights organization, malicious Java applet
The incidence of Amnesty International’s website compromise was probably not the intended target of the attack, claims Trend Micro researcher, Erika Mendoza. Trend Micro claims to have found evidence that the human rights organization found affected by a website compromise is not the only intended target for the attack. The website was said to have an iframe that [...]
Video: Cloud Security vs Cybercrime Economy
Posted: 15th July 2011 by infosecindia in MalwareTags: cybercrime, cybercrime economy, cybercriminals
ZeuS-in-the-Mobile targets Android, abuses Trusteer brand name
Posted: 13th July 2011 by infosecindia in Malware, Mobile, NewsTags: Blackberry, cybercriminals, mobile, mTANs, Symbian, Trusteer, Windows Mobile, ZeuS, ZitMo
A new version of ZeuS-in-the-Mobile (ZitMo), malware which targets mTANs has been discovered by researchers at Kaspersky Labs. The mobile malware was discovered in the end of September 2010. Previous versions of ZitMo targeted Symbian, Windows Mobile and Blackberry. However, the latest version brings ZeuS-in-the-Mobile to rapidly growing mobile platform, Google’s Android. “The first fact [...]
Android malware and new botnets attempting to take over where Rustock left off
Posted: 3rd June 2011 by infosecindia in Mobile, NewsTags: Android, botnet, cybercriminals, mcafee, Rustock, Spam, SpyEye, Threats Report: First Quarter 2011, ZeuS
McAfee today released the McAfee Threats Report: First Quarter 2011. With six million unique samples of recorded malware, Q1 2011 was the most active first quarter in malware history. The report revealed many of the trends that had a significant impact on the threat landscape, such as the takedown of the Rustock botnet, which resulted in [...]
Vulnerabilities exposed in Hotmail
Posted: 24th May 2011 by infosecindia in NewsTags: CSS filtering mechanism bug, cybercriminals, Hotmail, HTML_AGENT.SMJ, microsoft, Trend Micro, vulnerabilities
A couple of days ago, Trend Micro reported an attack that appeared to be targeted and that involved email messages sent through a Webmail service. Upon further investigation, Trend Micro was able to confirm that this attack exploits a previously unpatched vulnerability in Hotmail. Trend Micro detects the malicious email messages as HTML_AGENT.SMJ. “The said attack simply requires the targeted user to [...]
Royal wedding scams surface ahead of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Wedding
Posted: 21st April 2011 by infosecindia in Malware, ScamTags: BHSEO, cybercriminals, Kate Middleton, Prince William, rogue anti-virus, Royal Wedding, search engine poisoning
One of the most common ways to propagate malware through social engineering is to piggyback it on some attention-catching news event. Millions of people these days are scouting the web to get the latest updates as there just 8 days to go for the big day, the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton [...]