Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
The hacker collective "Hack the Planet" (HTP) has claimed responsibility for an attack on MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) computer systems in late January, in which it claims to have briefly taken control of the university's domain, redirected email traffic, and obtained administrator access to all .edu domains. HTP also claims to ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
Blackhole, says Christopher Boyd, senior threat researcher at GFI Software, “is the chameleon of internet threats. It simplifies the process of creating cybercrime campaigns and is easily adapted to take advantage of the buzz surrounding major news events and popular brands.” It is also easily adapted to target specific users ...
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Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Keep in mind that today's DNS hacks of popular websites such as acer.com, ups.com, theregister.co.uk were just that. A DNS hack. The actual sites themselves have not been compromised. For example:
UPS.com was altered to point to ups.com.85621INNSns1.yumurtakabugu.com
The attackers only changed the NS records for the website. This could have been much worse.
References:
http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=11503&rss
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/04/dns-hack-hits-popular-websites-telegraph-register-ups-etc/
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Researchers have uncovered evidence that the infamous Zeus login-stealing Trojan has been blended with the Ramnit worm to create hybrid malware that can attack online bank accounts while spreading across networks.
Security company Trusteer said it recently discovered a mutant version of Ramnit that appeared to be using a man-in-the-browser (MitB) ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in all supported editions of Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a victim to run malicious scripts when visiting various Web sites, resulting in information disclosure. This impact is similar to server-side cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Microsoft ...
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