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Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved An appeal for help from the programming community has allowed antivirus analysts to classify the unknown language used to develop key components of the Duqu Trojan. The sections responsible for downloading and executing additional modules in the Duqu Trojan, referred to by some as Stuxnet 2.0, were written in standard C++. Kaspersky Lab experts now say with a high degree of certainty that the Duqu framework was written using a custom object-oriented extension to C, generally called “OO C” and compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio Compiler 2008 (MSVC 2008) with special options for optimizing code size and inline expansion. Kaspersky’s Igor Soumenkov wrote, “ No matter which of these two variants is true, the implications are impressive. The Payload DLL contains 95 Kbytes of event-driven code written with OO C, a language that has no automatic memory management or safe pointers ,”. Kaspersky’s analysis now concludes: The Duqu Fra...

Yet Another Google Chrome Sandbox Critical Exploit by Turkish security experts Turkish security experts from Arf Iskenderun Technologies, finds the new vulnerability open in Google Chrome 17.0.963.78 , same risk working on new update 17.0.963.79 and bypass Chrome SandBox. Last week,  Vupen Security reports that it has officially "pwned" Google Chrome's sandbox. Vupen hacked Chrome 17.0.963.66 update. But, Turkish security experts claim that they hacked Chrome Sandbox after Vupen and This vulnerability is critical for Chrome.  A sandbox is security mechanism used to run an application in a restricted environment. If an attacker is able to exploit the browser in a way that lets him run arbitrary code on the machine, the sandbox would help prevent this code from causing damage to the system. The sandbox would also help prevent this exploit from modifying and even reading your files or any information on the system. Maiden says th...

Cyber Criminals Selling Millions of U.S military email addresses Web based underground market service currently selling Millions of harvested U.S government and U.S military harvested emails addresses to potential spammers, and find out just how easy it is to purchase that kind of data within the cyber crime ecosystem. Cyber criminals are getting more sophisticated in their scams and phishing schemes, which are designed to steal personal data and financial information. Spammers and virus creators are motivated by money and backed by organized crime on a global scale. They are also launching massive attacks on anti-spam organizations in an attempt to bring them down. In respect to targeted malware attacks, the service is currently offering 2.462.935 U.S government email addresses, and another 2.178.000 U.S military email addresses. A Screenshot of the inventory of harvested emails currently offered for sale: Spammers buy lists from brokers that continuously harvest email ...

Roman Andreev wins Facebook Hacker Cup 2012 25 of the world’s best hackers gathered for Facebook’s 2nd annual Hacker Cup event being held at its offices in Menlo Park. Roman Andreev from Russia completed one problem correctly in 1 hr 4 min and won Facebook’s Hacker Cup to get his name placed on an awesome and really heavy cement trophy along with a check for $5000. The registration for the event opened in January and started off with three online rounds of problem solving. Out of 6,000 (8,000 submissions total) qualifying submissions, the group has been shrunken down to just 25 and flown to Facebook for the finals.The top coders, all male from around the world, are a mix of students, independent coders, and professionals. Facebook paid their way to California, including a stipend for obtaining a Visa, since only one of the participants is from the United States. The rest of the finalists are from Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. The par...

iPad 3 jailbroken on Launch Day by 3 ways The new Apple iPad (third iPad, iPad 3) has already been jailbroken in at least three different ways. On the same day that Apple started shipping the new iPad out to consumers, there were reports that at least one hacker had already jailbroken the latest tablet. The first to claim was @Musclenerd, a member of the iPhone Dev Team,  tweeted a couple of images showing that he had already jailbroken the device. This must be a great relief for Apple fans who want to have their Apple devices, but don’t want Cupertino based tech giant to keep it restricted as it wants. Within the 24 hours of the iOS 5.1 update, teammate @pod2g revealed an untethered jailbreak for the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. With the new iPad running iOS 5.1 and an A5X processor. His hack was followed by the announcement of a successful untethered jailbreak by teammate, @i0n1c, who released a video as evidence to his accomplishment: Finally, a Tweet by @chpwn ...

Australia's first national cyber security competition Announced Australia's first national cyber security competition, the 2012 Cyber Defence University Challenge, was launched today by broadband minister Senator Stephen Conroy. If you are an undergraduate with top cyber problem-solving skills then Australia's first national Cyber Defence University Challenge is probably for you. The Challenge runs for 24 hours on 3 to 4 April, and will test the cyber problem-solving skills of teams of Australian undergraduates in a virtual network environment.The ultimate prize, sponsored by Telstra, is travel and entry to the Black Hat 2012 Conference in Las Vegas in July 2012. Senator Conroy sxays the competition is a partnership between the federal government, universities and Telstra. " The Government is committed to working with industry to develop a safe and secure digital economy for Australians ," Senator Conroy said in a statement. " We are also committed to i...

Microsoft Hacking Code leaked from security info-sharing program Microsoft on Friday confirmed that sample attack code created by the company had likely leaked to hackers from a program it runs with antivirus vendors. Code that was submitted to Microsoft last year to demonstrate a serious exploit in Windows has somehow made it into the wild, either through Redmond itself or one of its security partners. The exploit targets a vulnerability in Windows' remote desktop protocol, giving an attacker full control over a system and the ability to easily spread to other machines with remote desktop enabled. Security researchers raised alarms when a working exploit for the flaw was spotted in China shortly after the release, leading many to believe that malware writers were able to breach the Microsoft Active Protections Program security platform. " The details of the proof-of-concept code appear to match the vulnerability information shared with Microsoft Active Protections Progr...

DarkComet-RAT v5.1 Released - Remote Administration Tool This new version of the famous darkcomet RAT , a remote management tool created by DarkCoderSc . DarkComet is also considered as the most stable RAT around and it is even regarded more stable than some professional ones. Change Log: - [GUI ] Control center GUI change a little bit - [FUNC] New functions added in control center >> Network category, called WIFI Access points, now you can see near wifi networks and hardware wifi card(s) - [GUI ] Now in layout settings you can change the main windows GUI if you don't like the default one. - [FIX ] Fix the ftp upload keylogger problem - [SYS ] Edit server settings system was revised and optimized - [FIX ] DNS/IP backups issue fixed - [SYS ] DNS/IP backups algorythm revised and more reliable - [SYS ] Big problem fixed in client / server system - [SYS ] Loader environement is more lite, unused function / variables been track and clean also few important functions been ...

Six National Television Stations of Iran Hacked Co-Cain Warriors hackers today hack into 6 National Television Stations of Iran including Broadcasting Elam Center, IRIB Kermanshah Center, IRIB Kerman and 3 more. Hacker upload the deface page on their server and announce the day as " HappY 7Sin Day ". With growing conflicts in middle east more intrusions and DDOS attack on Iranian websites. Iran has been identified as the main cyber threat to the United States,Israel and European Countries. Yesterday we also report that, Iran's cyber defense headquarters has succeeded in making internal mail servers which would enable Iranian organizations and bodies to use local email addresses. Also last week, Iran launched a sophisticated cyber-attack against BBC Persian TV, according to the BBC News. The Reason behind this attack is part of a broader attempt by the government to disrupt the BBC’s Persian service. This attack follows various tactic...

SpoofTooph 0.5 : Automate Cloning of Bluetooth devices SpoofTooph 0.5 has been updated with some major bug fixes and new features. The new version 0.5 runs scans MUCH faster, which also allows for more Device Names to be resolved during scans. Spooftooph is designed to automate spoofing or cloning Bluetooth device Name, Class, and Address. Cloning this information effectively allows Bluetooth device to hide in plain site. Bluetooth scanning software will only list one of the devices if more than one device in range shares the same device information when the devices are in Discoverable Mode (specificaly the same Address). Change Log v0.5: - Fixed segmentation fault in manual assigning of Device Name and Class of Device - Modified flags - Depreciated      -r: Assign random NAME, CLASS, and ADDR      -l : Load SpoofTooph CSV logfile      -d : Dump scan into SpoofTooph CSV logfile - New      -w : Write ...

Mutillidae 2.1.17 : Born to be Hacked A few days ago an update " Mutillidae " version 2.1.17 was released. Mutillidae is a free, open source web application provided to allow security enthusiest to pen-test and hack a web application. Mutillidae can be installed on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows 7 using XAMMP making it easy for users who do not want to install or administrate their own webserver. If you would like to practice pen-testing/hacking a web application by exploiting cross-site scripting, sql injection, response-splitting, html injection, javascript injection, clickjacking, cross frame scripting, forms-caching, authentication bypass, or many other vulnerabilities, then Mutillidae is for you. Mutillidae has been tested/attacked with Cenzic Hailstorm ARC, W3AF, SQLMAP, Samurai WTF, Backtrack, HP Web Inspect, Burp-Suite, NetSparker Community Edition, and others. Features Installs easily by dropping project files into the "htdocs" folder of XAMPP. Switch...

Iran makes internal email servers Iran's cyber defense headquarters has succeeded in making internal mail servers which would enable Iranian organizations and bodies to use local email addresses. " One of the most important problems in the cyber arena in Iran is that many individuals and even university professors are using email services like Gmail and Yahoo and have no local email, " Rahimi said, Head of Iran's Cyber Defense Headquarters. “ Technical infrastructures have been built in the country and mail servers have been made at the cyber defense headquarters to manage Iranian emails ,” he added. The Iranian official noted that the body also shoulders the responsibility to promote culture and education. Iran launched a cyber defense headquarters some five months ago. The key task of cyber defense is to prevent computer worms, or as some call it cyber weapons, from breaking into or stealing data from Iran’s maximum security networks, including nuclear facilitie...

Dutch News site spread Malware on 100000 Computers Dutch popular news site NU.nl appears to be serving Java exploit (drive-by malware) to users of IE. Nu.nl has approximately one hour long served the Javascript code that attempted to provide visitors to the news site with a trojan to infect. The attackers made use of servers in India which an exploit kit was placed. The Ministry of Security and Justice issue a warning for malware yesterday by Nu.nl estimated to have infected 100,000 computers. Erik Loman, developer at security firm SurfRight, made ​​known on Twitter on the front page of the news javascript code ' g.js ' was blocked. The code triggered by Loman a nuclear exploit pack on a web server in India was placed. The exploit script checked the browser and common plugins like Flash and Adobe Reader security hole. If an exploit was found, the server sent the Sinowal-malware, a trojan of Russian origin, which is continuously updated and attempts to steal bank detail...

[POC] Windows RDP Vulnerability Exploit The vulnerability described by Microsoft as critical is known as MS12-020 or the RDP flaw. The hackers worked quickly on this particular vulnerability and we've already seen attempts to exploit the flaw which exists in a part of Windows called the Remote Desktop Protocol. Proof of concept (POC) exploit of the deadly RDP vulnerability has been shown to trigger blue screens of death on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 machines. The exploit attacks a RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) flaw patched by Microsoft on Tuesday. The discovery of proof-of-concept code on a Chinese website less than 72 hours later came as no great surprise. Security firms warned that worse is likely to follow. The vulnerability might easily be exploited to create a worm that spreads automatically between vulnerable computers. Two POC discovered, first POC to emerge was posted briefly on a Chinese website before disappearing. The second, based off the Chinese...

President Assad 's hacked emails reveal isolation of Syria's leader Asad’s personal email account was hacked by Anonymous hackers few hours ago and The Guardian then acquired over 3,000 documents from hacked email that according to opposition is the personal email of ruling couple Bashar and Asma al-Assad sam@alshahba.com and ak@alshahba.com The newspaper said it got the trove of e-mails from a member of the Syrian opposition whom it does not identify. The documents are said to have been intercepted by members of the Supreme Council of the Revolution between June and early February. According to the Guardian, the e-mails show that Assad regularly received advice from Iran or advisers to Iran about how he should respond to the crisis in his country. He received a memo from his media consultant with advice that was based on " consultations with a good number of people in addition to the media and political adviser for the Iranian ambassador. " The memo advised ...

Malicious Android application stealing banking credentials A new form of smart Android malware can not only steal your online banking information, but update itself in the future and secretly send contact information stored on your device off to the Bad Guys. Security researchers at McAfee have discovered a malicious Android application capable of grabbing banking passwords from a mobile device without infecting the user’s computer. From a McAfee blog post on the subject, penned by Malware Researcher Carlos Castillo: " To get the fake token, the user must enter the first factor of authentication (used to obtain initial access to the banking account). If this action is not performed, the application shows an error. When the user clicks “Generar” (Generate), the malware shows the fake token (which is in fact a random number) and sends the password to a specific cell phone number along with the device identifiers (IMEI and IMSI). The same information is also sent to one of th...

Stanford University defaced by Indian Hackers Stanford University subdomain ( http://scale.stanford.edu/ ) defaced by Indian hackers " Yash " and " C0de Inject0r " from Team Nuts . Stanford is an American private research university located in Stanford, California. Hacker write on page " Everyday Someone Get Hacked , Today is your Day ". " Admin -Good Security ,But Still Failed To Keep Us Out Of Your BOX " They added. Deface page have " Vande Mataram " as background music. Vande Mataram is a patriotic song for Indians. Reason of Defacement is unknown. At time of writing this post, site displaying black colour background with Hackers message on it. Team Nuts Hackers was mostly active last year, you can check their past hacks here .

PS3 hacker Geohot arrested for possession of marijuana George 'GeoHot' Hotz, who you might know as "geohot" who made the Sony console's root key available last year, has been banged up for carrying drugs. He was traveling by car with friends on his way to the SXSW conference in Austin to give a talk titled “ The Final Frontier of Reverse Engineering ” when he had to stop at a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas. Department of Homeland Security officers were using dogs to decide if a vehicle warranted a search, and Hotz’s car was barked at. Geohot holds a medical marijuana license in California (for those pesky headaches, clearly) and as such, was legally allowed to tote around a confectionary treat bag of THC-infused sweets. Sadly for Geohot, as he may or may not have noticed, he wasn't in California when a sheriff pulled a 1/4 oz. of Mary Jane from the glove box, alongside a pack of chocolates said to contain less than 1/8 oz. of the same Wa...

Carbylamine PHP Encoder - Make PHP files Fully Undetectable from Antivirus Carbylamine PHP Encoder is a PHP Encoder for obfuscating/encoding PHP files so that antivirus detection signatures can be bypassed. High Security PHP Encoder Stops unauthorized personnel from reading, modifying and reverse engineering your code. Advance PHP obfuscation makes your code extremely hard to understand. Improves security by preventing hackers from analyzing your source code. Encoding is a process where the PHP source code is converted to an intermediate machine readable format. This format is hard for humans to read and convert back to source code. As a result it protects your code from casual browsing. This means that if people obtain access to your site's code they will not be able to use that for unintended purposes. Obfuscation is a process where code intentionally made very hard to read as source code or as reverse engineered code. This obfuscation is designed to manage risks that st...

Iran Defense Forum users logins compromised and Leaked Hacker with name " Le0n B3lm0nt " claimed to hack into the Iran Defense Forum website (irandefence.net) and leak user details of all 3,212 members including their usernames, Emails and Passwords.  Iran Defense Forum is an independent forum that is not associated with the Iranian Government, neither it is affiliated with any governmental or regulatory agencies nor related to any political or religious entity. Hacker leak the database on Pastebin Note . Also two days before  Iran hacked BBC Persian TV  The Reason behind this attack is part of a broader attempt by the government to disrupt the BBC’s Persian service. This attack follows various tactics by the Iranian government, such as harassment, arrests, and threats against the relatives of BBC Persia correspondents who still live in Iran, in an effort to force the journalists to quit the Persian news service.

FBI actually leak Stratfor e-mails just to bust Julian Assange ? Internal emails disclosed by Anonymous and WikiLeaks suggest that Stratfor, a private intelligence firm working with the U.S. Justice Department. But The FBI turned a computer hacker to build its case against a group of people it alleges are responsible for a string of audacious attacks that captured the personal details of more than one million people. Hector Monsegur, known as Sabu, leader of the Anonymous affiliated hacking group LulzSec, was arrested by FBI agents in his New York apartment on Monday, June 7, 2011, at 10:15PM. On August 15, Monsegur pleaded guily to several counts of hacking and identity theft.  Seeing that Xavier 'Sabu' Monsegur had apparently been working for the FBI for the last couple of months, it isn't too far-fetched to think that the leaks of the Stratfor e-mails given to Wikileaks by Anonymous was nothing more than a tactic to entrap Wikileaks and build a case against Assange...

Chinese Trojans Gh0stRAT used to attack pro-Tibet organisations AlienVault has discovered a range of spear phishing attacks taking place against a number of Tibetan organizations apparently from Chinese attackers. The security firm believes that the attacks are originating from the same Chinese group that launched the Nitro attacks last year and and signal a serious escalation into cyberwar from the 'cold war' that has existed between the two countries since the occupation by the Chinese army in 1950. The new attack uses a malicious Word attachment sent by email to organisations including the Central Tibet Administration and International Campaign for Tibet using English-language subject lines promoting a Tibetan religious festival. The attacks were given the name Nitro, and they leveraged Phishing and a PDF exploit to target a vulnerability in Windows (CVE-2010-3333). The malicious payload being delivered in this latest attack is a variant of Gh0stRAT , which exploits a...

' The Consortium ' Just Called the Movement a ' SLUT ' I’m disappointed. At the pinnacle of one of the greatest and most innovative political movements the world has ever seen, you have the new hackers group named “Consortium” bringing the movement to a new low and quite frankly, an embarrassment. When the world is finally revolting against tyranny, corruption and a disgraceful abuse of human rights, the group Consortium chooses to hack into a porn site and stole Users identity and credit card numbers of men and women, mostly who are serving in the military. ( List of Military Emails , Used in Porn Site to sign up is available in our last related article) May I ask Consortium to what end does this serve? There have been depictions of a sexual nature as old as civilization, such as, the Venus figurines and sexual rock art since prehistoric times. Using the excuse that the site was poorly secured, is no excuse at all for demeaning and demoralizing people using the...

Role of free Hosting in Cyber Crime Zscaler experts notice that free hosting and DNS providers abused for hosting Phishing Pages, Spamming, Botnets or Malwares. Many free hosted sites considered as spam. They list " x90x.net " Free hosting Provider which used to host many Facebook Phishing sites. Like Other Blacklisted serviecs ( co.cc, pastehtml.com ) this free hosting can also be blacklisted by Google or Browsers soon.  Few Phishing Pages hosted on x90.net: faceb000k.x90x.net jebemtakra-pisdfa-asdasdsds-ddfs.x90x.net mesnaindustrija-goranovic-m-e-s-n-a.x90x.net dft3.x90x.net/fbcd.html d3xt0pcr3w.x90x.net When you’re on a shared server it’s important to find out if anyone else on your server has been blacklisted for spamming. Why? Because on a shared server you’re IP address and their IP address will be the same, and it does not matter if your domain name is different, you’ll still be blacklisted along with every other person on that server. Not Eve...

Yes! Its true,  Anonymous Hackers released their own Operating System with name " Anonymous-OS" , is Live is an ubuntu-based distribution and created under Ubuntu 11.10 and uses Mate desktop. You can create the LiveUSB with  Unetbootin . Also Read: Top Best Password Managers . Also Read: Deep Web Search Engines . Pre-installed apps on Anonymous-OS: - ParolaPass Password Generator - Find Host IP - Anonymous HOIC - Ddosim - Pyloris - Slowloris - TorsHammer - Sqlmap - Havij - Sql Poison - Admin Finder - John the Ripper - Hash Identifier - Tor - XChat IRC - Pidgin - Vidalia - Polipo - JonDo - i2p - Wireshark - Zenmap …and more Download Anonymous-OS 0.1 Warning : It is not developed by any Genuine Source, can be backdoored OS by any Law enforcement Company or Hacker. Use at your own Risk. Update: Another Live OS for  anonymity available called " Tails ". Which is a live CD or live USB that aims at preserving yo...

Microsoft adds Enhanced Memory Protections in IE10 Internet Explorer 10, the next version of the popular browser from Microsoft will incorporate new protections in terms of memory management. French security firm VUPEN has managed to hack Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 on a fully patched Windows 7 SP1 machine. Internet Explorer 10 introduces significant improvements in memory protections to help make vulnerabilities harder to exploit, helping to keep users safe on the sometimes-hostile Web. These improvements will increase the difficulty and development cost of exploits, making life harder for the bad guys. As VUPEN founder Chaouki Bekrar claims, the memory corruption bug they used to do that is one of many they found, but he also admitted that the new IE 10 will be much harder to break into as Microsoft has added new protection mechanisms. Internet Explorer 10 will include two major new features: HEASLR (High Entropy Address Space Layout Randomization): functionality ad...

Potential Security Risk of Geotagging for the Military Did you know that when you upload photos to the Internet they can tell more about you, then you would want to disclose to a random stranger watching it? Where you live, where you spend time with your kids, when you are at home, and when you are not. How is that? Modern smartphones and cameras can add additional information to digital photos they create - date and time, camera model, and lot's of other information, including GPS coordinates of place where photo has been made. And when you upload such photo to your favorite social network it might either display this info explicitly, or just leave it intact and any user who's watching it can find you on a map. A article posted by  Cheryl Rodewig on United States Army website with title " Geotagging poses security risks ". They explain , The question was posed by Brittany Brown, social media manager of the Online and Social Media Division at the Office of the Ch...

Microsoft Security Bulletin with Remote Desktop Flaws Microsoft has released 6 updates in this month's patch Tuesday, including a patch for a critical hole which the software maker warns could be hit within the next 30 days. Microsoft is warning that there’s a remote, pre-authentication, network-accessible code execution vulnerability in its implementation of the RDP protocol. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Remote Desktop Protocol accesses an object in memory that has been improperly initialized or has been deleted. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run abitrary code on the target system. An attacker could then install programs; view,change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights, Read More . The vulnerability, which affects all versions of Windows, was privately reported to Microsoft’s via the ZDI vulnerability broker service and the company said it was not yet aware of any attacks in the wild....

BBC Persian TV hacked by  Iranian government According to BBC News, today Iran hacked BBC Persian TV ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/ ) . This is not the first time the Iranian government has tampered with the BBC’s Persian service, Zdnet Report. The Reason behind this attack is part of a broader attempt by the government to disrupt the BBC’s Persian service. This  attack follows various tactics by the Iranian government, such as harassment, arrests, and threats against the relatives of BBC Persia correspondents who still live in Iran, in an effort to force the journalists to quit the Persian news service. In Addition to this, The BBC’s London office was inundated with automatic phone calls and the company’s satellite feeds into Iran were also jammed, while this only affected owners of illegal satellite dishes, these are of course the only ones that can receive the BBC signal in Iran. The BBC has previously accused Iran of attempting to j...

Tunisian Islamist Website Hacked by Anonymous The Facebook page of Hizb Ettahrir, an Islamist political party that is legally unrecognized in Tunisia, was hacked last night by a Tunisian group claiming affiliation with the international cyber activist collective Anonymous. " We are fighting you... your emails, your bank accounts and transactions will be probed, your hard discs will be copied ," said a man wearing the Guy Fawkes mask that has become a trade mark of Anonymous members. The YouTube video embedded above, in French, was posted a few days ago warning of the attack. The video warned their e-mails, bank accounts, and hard drives will be probed. Furthermore, it said if the Tunisian government won’t stop them, Anonymous will. The video warned, “ We are fighting you… your emails, your bank accounts and transactions will be probed, your hard discs will be copied. If the Tunisian government won’t stop your activities in the weeks to come, Anonymous will . ”   The a...