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Specialized Trojan can stealing credit card details from hotel The next time you check in to a hotel, a cybercriminal could be checking you out. A remote access computer Trojan (RAT) designed to steal credit card details from hotel point-of-sale (PoS) applications is being sold on the underground forums, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Trusteer, the world's leading provider of secure web access services, detected these schemes and says hotel poaching is a virile trade in underground and tech forums. Attack codes can be purchased in Visa underground forums for $280 and the spyware cannot be detected by anti-virus software. The package even includes a manual loaded with tips on how the poacher can trick the desk clerk into loading the spyware for them. Malware writers often repackage their malicious installers with new algorithms in order to evade signature-based antivirus detection, said Bogdan Botezatu, a senior e-threat analyst at antivirus vendor BitDef...

Anonymous Hackers target F1 website in Bahrain GP protest Anonymous a collective who have hacked or taken down websites for social comment purposes, have turned their attention to the official Formula 1 website Formula1.com , taking it offline on Friday. The group also attacked F1-racers.net where it posted a message saying the " Formula 1 racing authority was well-aware of the Human Rights situation in Bahrain and still chose to contribute to the regime's oppression of civilians and will be punished. " According to  Statements: "Anonymous has watched with growing alarm the incredible human rights abuses of the Bahrain regime, We have watched this tyrannical government tear gas it's own people literally to death, with over 30 fatalities so far. The occasion of Anonymous re-launching Operation Bahrain will be this despicable Grand Prix Formula One race to be held in Bahrain tomorrow through the 22nd of April." "Beginning tomorrow, and lasting for...

Pastebin Censored ! Anonymous launches AnonPaste -  Uncensored Anonymous and the People's Liberation Front have launched a "totally secure and safe alternative" to Pastebin, the site used by the hacktivist collective to dump data recovered from hacks.  AnonPaste  for people to post uncensored documents and files without compromising their identities. Shared content can be set to expire after 10 minutes, an hour, a day, a month, a year, or never. In addition, the site promises to remain advertising-free and unmoderated, maintain no connection logs, and store only encrypted data. The two groups said AnonPaste offers 256-bit AES encryption at the browser layer. AnonPaste supports a URL shortening feature and allows users to post up to 2MB of text snippets at a time. Users can specify how long they want the text to remain available on the site. AnonPaste , which accepts donations via WePay and BitCoins, was built using the open source ZeroBin software, which doesn...

zDefender - Enterprise smartphone IDS/IPS released by Zimperium Do you recall the security firm Zimperium which came out with ANTI , the killer Android app that allowed even the clueless to hack and pwn like a pentester? Zimperium, an Israeli security start up founded by Zuk Avraham, a world-renowned hacker and security researcher, has debuted its latest product, the zDefender at DEMO in Santa Clara, California. Called zDefender , this product can detect malicious attacks and take proactive measures to reduce threats via automatic preventive traffic filters and a remote management console. With the onslaught of mobile malware, everyone should have antivirus up and running immediately after purchasing a smartphone. You'd think you were protected from various attacks like man in the middle (MITM) attacks ? At DEMO Spring 2012 , Zuk planted 2 Routers, providing 3 Access points, which have claimed about 3,000 mobile device victims so far. zDefender is able to do this by us...

winAUTOPWN v3.0 Released - System vulnerability exploitation Framework The improved GUI extension - WINAUTOPWN ACTIVE SYSTEMS TRANSGRESSOR GUI [ C4 - WAST ] is a Systems and Network Exploitation Framework built on the famous winAUTOPWN as a backend.  C4 - WAST gives users the freedom to select individual exploits and use them. BSDAUTOPWN has been compiled, like always for various flavours and has been upgraded to version 1.8 alongwith all applicable exploits which have been added in this release. Included this time is the bsd_install.sh, which will set chmod on all applicable BSD compiled binaries. WINAUTOPWN requires PERL,PHP,PYTHON,RUBY and its dependencies alongwith a few others' too for smooth working of exploits included in it. winAUTOPWN and bsdAUTOPWN are available at https://winautopwn.co.nr

Rootdabitch version 0.1 - Multithreaded Linux root password Bruteforcer r00tw0rm hacker " th3breacher! "  release   Rootdabitch v0.1  ,which is a Multithreaded Linux/UNIX tool to brute-force cracking local root through su using sucrack. sucrack is a multithreaded Linux/UNIX tool for brute-force cracking local user accounts via su. The main feature of the Rootdabitch is that It's local brute forcer, using 10 passwords in 3 seconds. and works in background so you can leave it , when root is cracked it will email the user using /bin/mail . All for this, you need to have a php shell/reverse shell/ssh access to the target to run thistool and run it as a normal user, Upload this script into it and give it the execution permission and execute the script like:  ~ ./rootdabitch youremail@address.com If the password is cracked you will have a mail with the root password and the password will be stored into password.txt . Try it ! Download Rootdabitch 0.1

Pro-Tibetan activists become victim of Spear Phishing Hackers are ramping up their attacks against Tibetan activists and are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to deliver malware An interesting example of such a malicious email has recently been spotted by FireEye researcher Alex Lanstein, who is currently monitoring these spam campaigns. In the last few of months, several security vendors have reported targeted attacks that distributed malware designed to steal confidential information from people or organizations supporting the Tibetan cause. This tactic recently re-surfaced during our monitoring of Tibetan-leveraging malware campaigns. It came in the form of BKDR_RILER.SVR, a backdoor that arrives infected by PE_SALITY.AC. A simple Spear Phishing technique was used recently to trick Tibetan activists into opening malicious PDF email attachments, by quoting a legitimate email message sent by FireEye's Lanstein to people who submitted Tibet-related malware sampl...

Security Concern : Internet Enabled TV can be hacked ! Is your Internet TV vulnerable to hackers? Internet TVs could be the newest avenue for cybercriminals to infiltrate your home or business. Last year, Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered they could hack into a best-selling Internet-ready HDTV model with unsettling ease. According to a new report from researcher NPD In-Stat predicts that 100 million homes in North America and Western Europe will own television sets that blend traditional programs with Internet content by 2016. What exactly these Internet Enabled TV have ?  Its IP addresses, always-on network interfaces, CPUs, storage, memory, and operating systems the details that have offered hackers a bounty of attack choices for the last three decades. " Our goal was to see if we could hack into the set-top box, steal customer personal information, pirate services, and incur denial-of-service conditions. "...

Nikjju Mass injection campaign target more than 2 Millions Urls Daniel Cid an open source developer and information security professional reported on Sucuri blog that their team tracked a new mass SQL injection campaign that started early this month and till now more than 180,000 URLs have been compromised.  Nikjju is a mass SQL injection campaign targeting ASP/ASP.net sites. At the time of writing Google has identified 361,000 pages infected with that javascript call, but the number is growing really fast. In this case it adds the following javascript to the compromised sites. One more interesting fact that researchers have noticed that  Nikjju.com domain was registered on April 1st 2012 and in 18 days more than 180,000 urls get infected. This mass Sql Injection also compromise some Government sites also , as listed below : jnd.xmchengdu.gov.cn study.dyny.gov.cn www.cnll.gov.cn www.bj.hzjcy.gov.cn www.mirpurkhas.gov.pk www.tdnyw....

Google Sent Hacked Notification Messages to Millions of Webmasters Google's head of the webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that they have sent out new message notifications to 20,000 web sites that are hacked. Specifically, Google sent these messages to sites doing " weird redirects ." Weird redirects means the hack is where the hacker gains access to your HTACCESS and only redirects users who click from Google to your web site. Otherwise, if they type in the domain name directly, there will be no redirect. A year ago, Google began labeling hacked sites and sites with malware as sites that may compromised in the search results snippets. If a site has been hacked, it typically means that a third party has taken control of the site without the owner's permission, Hackers may change the content of a page, add new links on a page, or add new pages to the site. The intent can include Phishing to tricking users into sharing personal and credit card information or spam...

Julian Assange and Bradley Manning are Vested in Vision ! Two significant events will take place this week and cyber activists need to take note and pay attention. This will be your training on how to unfold the growing revolution that is spinning our world on a new and courageous path. First, Julian Assange has completed filming twelve episodes of his forthcoming show, " The World Tomorrow ". The first episode will be aired on RT and released online on Tuesday 17 April 2012, with other networks to follow. " The World Tomorrow " is a collection of twelve interviews featuring an eclectic range of guests, who are stamping their mark on the future: politicians, revolutionaries, intellectuals, artists and visionaries. The second event, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and political prisoner Bradley Manning's next appearance in court will take place April 24-26 at Ft. Meade, MD. Bradley Manning was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the whis...

Lebanese Government sites hacked by ' Raise Your Voice ' A group calling itself ' Raise Your Voice ' hacked on Tuesday around 15 Lebanese government websites to ask for an improvement in living standards, the day the parliament launches a three-day session to assess the cabinet's performance. " To our dear "beloved" Lebanese Government,We are RYV, short for Raise Your Voice, and we are simply a group of people who could not bare sitting in silence, watching all the crimes and injustice going on in Lebanon. We will not be silenced and brainwashed by your media. We will not stop until the Lebanese people mobilize, demand their rights, and earn them. We will not stop until the standards of living are raised to where they should be in Lebanon. We will not stop until this government's self-made problems are solved, like the power shortage, water shortage, rise in gas prices and rise in food product prices. We are RYV, expect us to break the silence, whether in the streets or on the Int...