The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Source for Cybersecurity News — Index Page

Mirage Anti-Bot 2.0 : Protection against ZeuS, SpyEye Malwares Jean-Pierre aka DarkCoderSc and Fred De Vries Develop and Release the second version of Another great security tool named " Mirage Anti-Bot 2.0 ". Zeus and SpyEye were the two main families of botnet software. These types of malware are spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. They are so-called Trojan horses which are designed to steal credentials from various online services like social networks (such as Facebook, Hi5, Yahoo, Netlog), online banking accounts (phising), ftp-accounts, email-accounts and other. They are part of botnets that are estimated to include millions of compromized computers. Because your antivirus program is not always giving you enough protection against these types of malware, so Experts at http://unremote.org/  create this program for you, that can be used as an extra layer of security. Mirage Anti-Bot will be downloading and installing one or more blockli...

2012 Most Vulnerable Cities At Risk Of Cyber Crime Norton's study showed the city was one of the ten worst for hacking. Each city was ranked by the prevalence of PCs and smartphones in addition to social media use with risk factors like unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots and malware attempts. Manchester was found to be the riskiest city and Vancouver is the third most vulnerable city in Canada for cyber-crime. The Top 10 Riskiest Online Cities in the U.S. are: #1 – Washington, D.C. #2 – Seattle #3 – San Francisco #4 – Atlanta #5 – Boston #6 – Denver #7 – Minneapolis #8 – Sacramento, Calif. #9 – Raleigh, N.C. #10 – Austin, Texas The Top 10 Riskiest Online Cities in Canada are: #1 - Burlington, ON #2 - Port Coquitlam, BC #3 - Vancouver, BC #4 - Langley, BC #5 - Calgary, AB # 6 - Fredericton, NB #7 - Toronto, ON #8 - New Westminster, BC #9 - Edmonton, AB #10 - Victoria, BC Cyber crime expert Simon Ellson said there are a numer of steps people can take to stay sa...

Syrian Malware and Darkcomet RAT : They    can't blame    the Developers Two days before we reported about The Syrian Malware - programs used to target the Syrian opposition.  According to Report, They steal the identities of opposition activists, then impersonate them in online chats, then they gain the trust of other users, pass out Trojan horse viruses and encourage people to open them. Telecomix agents Reverse-engineered that malware and Found that  Darkcomet RAT (Remote Administration Tool) version was 3.3 was Injected in SFX (SelF-eXtracting) archives as 1122333.exe injects this binary program into the Windows process "svchost.exe". Telecomix blame  Jean-Pierre aka  DarkCoderSc (Developer of Darkcomet) for creating this tool by saying " Jean-Pierre, please, next time you thing about writing some "espionnage software" think about life at stakes here and do something useful instead with your talent. " In Response  Je...

Dropper Malware comes with DLL Hijacking Feature Trojans, Viruses, Worms have become the scare of the year, and with good reason. Many of the recent files are malicious in nature, causing the infected user at the very worst, to lose everything on their computer. There are few specially coded malware, which are not only developed to ensure that they cause maximum damage and steal all the sensitive information they can find on the infected devices. According to Bitdefender experts, In a blog post they mention about such a malware called "Dropper" or Trojan.Dropper.UAJ. But the brand new in terms of approach that dropper hijacks a library file called comres.dll, altering it to ensure that each time it’s being used, the malware steps into play. The smartness of this malware can be judge from here that, it makes a copy of the genuine comres.dll file, patches it and then saves it in the Windows directory folder, where the operating system normally looks for a DLL to load when...

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail Kim Dotcom, the millionaire founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, was released on bail Wednesday after a judge said he didn't appear to have enough money to flee. Authorities in the U.S. allege founder Kim Dotcom facilitated millions of illegal downloads through his company and he is subject to online piracy charges. Last month, U.S. authorities shut down Megaupload's websites and announced indictments against Dotcom and six other people connected to the site, accusing them of operating an " international organized criminal enterprise responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of copyrighted works. " They say Megaupload generated more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and the sale of premium memberships. He had been in custody since his arrest on January 20 after he was initially denied bail. He said: ' I am relieved to go home to see my family, my three little kids ...