Earlier this year, a new breed of Remote Access Tool (RAT) called Plugx (also known as Korplug) surfaced in the wild. PlugX, reportedly used on limited targeted attacks, is an example of custom-made RATs developed specifically for this purpose. The idea behind using this new tool is simple: less recognition and more elusiveness from security […]
Earlier today Guardian Analytics and McAfee released a joint fraud report, “Dissecting Operation High Roller,” that describes a new breed of sophisticated fraud attacks. The advanced methods discovered in Operation High Roller show fraudsters moving toward cloud-based servers with multi-faceted automation in a global fraud campaign. Building on established Zeus and SpyEye tactics, this ring […]
AVG’s latest Q3 2011 Community Powered Threat Report has highlighted the prevalence of a new breed of cybercrime attacks being launched against users’ ‘digital wallets’ to target the new credit currencies in widespread usage on the Internet. As individual users and businesses alike now start to trade in the ‘currency of the web’, cyber criminals […]
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