World Cyber News

Besides being known about corruption scandals, South America is a reference to the development of ATM malware spreading globally with Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico leading the way. A research conducted by KASPERSKY has revealed a convergence on attacks against financial institutions, where traditional crimes and cybercrime join forces together to target and […]

Researchers from the ISC SANS group and the Anti-DDoS company Imperva discovered two distinct campaigns targeting Windows Server, Redis and Apache Solr servers online. Last week new mining campaigns targeted unpatched Windows Server, Apache Solr, and Redis servers, attackers attempted to install the cryptocurrency miner Coinminer. Two campaigns were spotted by researchers from the ISC […]

Türk Telekom, a Turkish Internet Service Provider (ISP), has deployed special hardware to intercept and alter Internet traffic, swapping legitimate software downloads with similar applications, but infected with spyware. A Citizen Lab report claims that Türk Telekom has deployed Sandvine PacketLogic middleboxes in five regions across the country. These devices […]

In just one night a Russian crime gang stole 3.8 million slopes (860,000 euros) from 32 ATMs belonging to the Raiffeisen Romania bank. Cybercriminals stole 3.8 million slopes (860,000 euros) from 32 ATMs belonging to the Raiffeisen Romania bank using an infected RTF document. The criminal organization led by Dmitriy Kvasov operated […]

Memcached reflections that recently fueled two most largest amplification DDoS attacks in the history have also helped other cybercriminals launch nearly 15,000 cyber attacks against 7,131 unique targets in last ten days, a new report revealed. Chinese Qihoo 360’s Netlab, whose global DDoS monitoring service ‘DDosMon’ initially spotted the Memcached-based DDoS attacks, […]

    We are seeing a quite active malspam campaign distributing Lokibot hitting UK at the moment. They are using multiple spoofed email sending addresses, loads of different subject lines and body contents. All the attachments have different names as well. A few examples of senders are: Frank <hdmexp2@highdream.net> ???????????? […]

Websites associated with the US National Rifle Association (NRA) have often been the targets of Memcached-based DDoS attacks, according to Qihoo 360’s Network Security Research Laboratory (Netlab). The Chinese company, who has one of the widest views of all Internet traffic due to its leading position on the Chinese market, […]

More than 95,000 servers could still be vulnerable to being abused to launch massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. The risk comes via Memcached, an open source utility designed to cache in RAM frequently used web pages. The web page caching utility was never designed to be internet-accessible and requires no authentication to […]

On February 28, the McAfee Advanced Threat Research team discovered that the cybercrime group Hidden Cobra continues to target cryptocurrency and financial organizations. In this analysis, we observed the return of Hidden Cobra’s Bankshot malware implant surfacing in the Turkish financial system. Based on the code similarity, the victim’s business […]

SEOUL—Suspected North Korean hackers blitzed Turkish financial institutions and a government organization last week, seeking intelligence for a future heist, a new report says. The attacks on March 2 and 3, identified by cyber researcher McAfee LLC in a Thursday report, attempted to lure targets with faux links to a popular cryptocurrency […]