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Modern banker malware undermines two-factor authentication

Ok, ill buy that..Yes Two-factor authentication doesnt help avoid the already infected. Now what the bank SHOULD have one other than the user having a fully patched system and AV if hes on Windows is when the website detected that there was activity from another IP address - represented another...

Tags: Financial services, Security administration, bank, two-factor authentication, banker malware

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Modern banker malware undermines two-factor authentication

Once pitched as an additional layer of security for E-banking transactions, two-factor authentication is slowly becoming an easy to bypass authentication process, to which cybercriminals have successfully adapted throughout the last couple of years. Modern banker malware, also known as crimeware, is now fully capable of bypassing...

Tags: Bank, Two-factor Authentication, Antivirus, Malware, SMS, Cybercriminal, Banker Malware, Zeus, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Security Administration, Financial Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-23

Trusteer launches search engine for malware configuration files

Trusteer's recently launched "Attack Trace" search engine aims to help financial institution by letting them search through the configuration files of popular banker malware SilentBanker, WSNPOEM/Zeus/PRG/Zbot and Torpig in order for them to verify whether or not their sites are targeted. And while the search engine is a marketable way...

Tags: Search Engine, Financial Company, Malware, Trusteer, Banker Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Search, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Additional Resources

MS Security Essentials test shows 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples

According to recent tests conducted by AV-Test.org aiming to measure the performance of Microsoft's Security Essentials, the freeware application achieved 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples including viruses, bots, trojan horses, backdoors and Internet worms, also achieving 90.95% detection rate for 14,222 adware/spyware samples it was tested against. ...

Tags: Freeware, Antivirus, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-01

News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Citizens Financial sued for insufficient E-Banking security

If a fraudulent transaction ever takes place on one of your bank accounts due to their compromise, who's to blame - the bank, for not providing you as a customer with state-of-the-art security mechanisms that could have prevented it, or you, as a customer whose insecure online behavior led to...

Tags: Bank, Citizens LLC, Electronic Banking, Financial, Two-factor Authentication, Online Banking, Banking, Security Administration, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-10

Iranian opposition launches organized cyber attack against pro-Ahmadinejad sites

Approximately 24 hours ago, the Iranian opposition coordinated an ongoing cyber attack that has successfully managed to disrupt access to major pro-Ahmadinejad Iranian web sites, including the President's homepage which continues returning a "The maximum number of user  reached, Server is too busy, please try again later..." message. ...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Web, Server, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tool, Iran, Attack, Presstv.ir, SupportIran.php, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy

Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's  Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...

Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Online broker CommSec criticised for weak passwords, lack of SSL

In times when vendors are vertically integrating by offering virtual keyboards for secure Ebanking, and banks themselves are requiring end users to run antivirus software if they were to file a fraud claim, others are busy fixing security design flaws. Earlier this month, a Melbourne based computer...

Tags: Password, Flaw, SSL, Online Broker, CommSec, Password Best Practice, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Bad, bad, cybercrime-friendly ISPs!

In a post-McColo, post-Atrivo and post-EstDomains cybercrime ecosystem, the researchers at FireEye have recently launched a "Bad Actors series" aiming to put the spotlight on some of the currently active badware actors online. The sampled ISPs represent safe heavens for drop zones for banker malware,  DNSChanger malware, rogue security software...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Malware, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Crimeware tracking service hit by a DDoS attack

A week after a newly launched crimeware tracking service went public, cybercriminals didn't hesitate to prove its usefulness by launching a distributed denial of service attack DDoS against it. According to the Swiss security blog, the Zeus tracker came under attack from a previously known source that also attacked abuse.ch...

Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Zeus Tracker, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Paris Hilton's official web site serving malware

The official web site of Paris Hilton (parishilton.com) has been embedded with a malicious iFrame, automatically exposing visitors to client-side vulnerabilities and banker malware, according to researchers from ScanSafe. Upon closer analysis, it appears that the site has been infected on the 8th of January, Thursday, becoming the very latest...

Tags: Channel Management, Cyberthreats, Dancho Danchev, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hilton Hotels Corp., Internet, Malware, Marketing, Programming Languages, Security, Site, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Spyware, Adware & Malware, SQL, Viruses And Worms, Web, Web Site, Web Site Development

Blog posts 2009-01-14

British police can now hack citizens' PCs

British police can now hack citizens' PCsDifferences...The only difference between Britain and the US... Britian is public with its plans and has government approval. The US has faced scrutiny of Congress but intelligence agencies pressed ahead anyway and already data mine all of your communications.Say hi to your Uncle...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Spyware, British Police, PC, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-01-04

Thousands of legitimate sites SQL injected to serve IE exploit

Once again confirming the trend of having more legitimate sites serving exploits and malware than purely malicious ones, Chinese hackers have been keeping themselves busy during the last couple of days, launching massive SQL injection attacks affecting over 100,000 web sites. The SQL injection attacks serving the...

Tags: Web, Malware, SQL, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Exploit, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-17

Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack

The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack distributed denial of service attack , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site with 3/4 million hits daily from hundreds of thousands of malware infected hosts mostly based in Asia and Eastern Europe, according...

Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Botnet, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-17

AVG and Rising signatures update detects Windows files as malware

Yesterday, a signatures update pushed by AVG falsely labeled a critical Windows file as a banker malware, prompting the company to quickly fix the issue and issue a workaround, following end users complaints at its support forums. AVG's false positive causing downtime for Windows users is happening...

Tags: Malware, Virus, AVG, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-11

CardCops: Stolen credit card details getting cheaper

The dynamics of the underground marketplace are pretty similar to that of the legitimate marketplace, with cybercriminals demanding and supplying, consolidating and start to work together, and coming up with new monetization approaches in order to continue enjoying the high profit margins of their goods and services. The once highly...

Tags: Credit Card, Price, Service, Credit Card Detail, Cloned/Expired Card, U, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-29

A peek inside the bank malware epidemic

My colleague at Kaspersky Lab Roel Schouwenberg see disclosure has written a very interesting piece on the banker malware landscape, warning that attacks against financial institutions will get much more targeted and sophisticated. Schouwenberg's Attacks on Banks paper takes a close look at how malicious programs targeting...

Tags: Bank, Financial, Malware, Attack, Schouwenberg, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Financial Accounting, Security, Viruses And Worms, Finance, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Lack of phishing attacks data sharing puts $300M at stake annually

To share phishing URLs, or not to share? That's the rhetorical question, since sharing ultimately serves the final customer and ensures a lower average time for a phishing site to remain online. In a recently published research (The consequence of non-cooperation in the fight against phishing) Tyler Moore and Richard...

Tags: Phishing Web Site, Data Sharing, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-23

Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals

The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...

Tags: Bank, Terminal, Credit Card, Chip, U.K, PIN, Irish Payment Services Organisation, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-19