Last April 23 - 25, I attended the seventh Counter eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS VII) initiated by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). This year, the conference was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Security experts from Japan, Paraguay, Brazil, North America, Russia, and India flew to the South American city to discuss about the developments in the cybercrime arena. Together with 8 other participants from Japan, I arrived in Buenos Aires after a 38-hour flight. However, the talks and the level ...
Recent incidents highlight how frequently - and creatively - cybercriminals try to steal data. From "homemade browsers" to million-user data breaches, to the daily theft carried out every day by infostealers and phishing attacks, every day.
All this stolen information ends up for sale in the underground to the highest bidder. From there, it can be used in many uniformly illegal ways - from identity theft, to credit card fraud, to launching attacks on other users. They can also be used to ...
While looking into recent reports about the Winnti malware family, we discovered another backdoor which was built using similar techniques and has other similarities as well. It is also possible that it is being used in similar targeted attacks.
We found this particular threat via feedback provided by the Smart Protection Network; we detect it as BKDR_TENGO.A. It passes itself off as a legitimate system DLL file, winmm.dll, like most of the Winnti samples. We believe that this was done using a legitimate ...
Cybercriminals in Brazil appear to have come up with a new tactic to lure users into giving up their login information. A few days ago, we found a post on a Brazilian forum offering a browser that could access the website of the Banco do Brasil without using the needed security plugin.
Figure 1. Homemade browser ad
Users that clicked the download link download a zip file. Inside this compressed file, there two executable files: one was the browser itself, which is ...
Last month, an article in Dark Reading by Robert Lemos asked if it was "Time To Dump Antivirus As Endpoint Protection?". It referenced a recent Google research paper that outlined their new reputation technology called CAMP (short for Content-Agnostic Malware Protection), which they claim protects against 98.6% of malware downloaded via their Chrome browser, as opposed to the 25 percent detected by the best performing antivirus engine they tested.
This may sound like magic. Whether you view this as white magic ...
