We discovered GamaPoS, a new breed of point-of-sale (PoS) threat currently spreading across the United States and Canada through the Andromeda botnet. GamaPoS is the latest in a long list of threats that scrape off credit card data from PoS systems. Compared to its predecessors, GamaPoS uses malware coded using the .NET framework—a first in PoS…
Read MoreThe Andromeda botnet is still active in the wild and not yet dead. In fact, it’s about to undergo a major update real soon. This botnet was first reported back in 2011 but has recently risen to prominence due to the latest modifications in the threat. Initially, this project to update Andromeda was about to…
Read MoreIn our monitoring of the GAMARUE malware family, we found a variant that used the online code repository SourceForge to host malicious files. This finding is the latest development we’ve seen since the increase in infection counts observed last month. SourceForge is a leading code repository for many open-source projects, which gives developers a free…
Read MoreLast March, I blogged about the Andromeda, a well-known botnet that surfaced in 2011 and is making a comeback this year. Just months after my report, we are still seeing notable activities from the said botnet, in particular a sudden boost of GAMARUE variants last week. The Andromeda botnet is a spam botnet that delivers…
Read MoreThe Andromeda botnet – first spotted in late 2011 – has recently resurfaced. This threat arrives via a familiar means: spammed messages with malicious attachments or links to compromised websites hosting Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK) code. Here is one spam message we saw recently: Figure 1. Sample spammed message Andromeda itself is highly modular, and…
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