Attackers have been using social engineering to avoid the increasing costs of exploitation due to the significant hardening and exploit mitigations investments in Windows. Tricking a user into running aRead More →
Existing crypto software “wholly unequipped” to counter Rowhammer attacks. The world has seen the most unsettling attack yet resulting from the so-called Rowhammer exploit, which flips individual bits in computer memory. It’sRead More →
Recently I wrote about a supposedly new ransomware called Fairware that was targeting Linux servers. When a server was hacked by Faireware, it would delete various data folders and create a ransom noteRead More →
RAT is still in its early stages of development. An Arabic-speaking malware coder using the name Napoleon has released a new RAT (Remote Access Trojan/Tool) called Revenge, which he’s distributing forRead More →
When we first encountered Lurk, in 2011, it was a nameless Trojan. It all started when we became aware of a number of incidents at several Russian banks that hadRead More →
Last month ESET researchers wrote an article about a new OS X malware called OSX/Keydnap, built to steal the content of OS X’s keychain and maintain a permanent backdoor. AtRead More →
Google declined to classify this as a security issue. British security researcher Aidan Woods discovered an issue on Google’s login page that allows clever attackers to automatically download files on theRead More →
In this blog, FireEye Labs dissects this new ATM malware that we have dubbed RIPPER (due to the project name “ATMRIPPER” identified in the sample) and documents indicators that strongly suggestRead More →
Technique works on virtually all USB drives with no modifications necessary. In 2013, a document leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden illustrated how a specially modified USB deviceRead More →
Roman Seleznev, aka “Track2,” was found guilty of 38 counts relating to fraud and theft. On Thursday, a federal jury in Seattle found Roman Seleznev guilty of stealing millions of creditRead More →
