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Variant of Zeusbot/Spyeye Botnet uses p2p network model Cybercriminals are using a modified version of the Zeusbot/Spyeye, which is using a peer-to-peer (P2P) network architecture, rather than a simple bot to command-and-control (C&C) server system, making the botnet much harder to take down, Symantec warned. ZeuS is very popular in the cybercriminal world because it's capable of stealing a wide variety of information, documents and login credentials from infected systems. For many years it was the weapon of choice for most fraudsters targeting online banking systems.The Trojan's source code was published on Internet underground forums last year, paving the way for many third-party modifications and improvements. Previously, P2P was used to communicate between bots any change in the C&C server's URL. Other techniques have also been used, such as programmatically determining the URLs to be used on particular dates in the event that a bot loses contact completely...

Azerbaijan Arrests  Iranian terror group , Iranian Hackers hit Azerbaijan Sites The National Security Ministry of Azerbaijan said Tuesday that it had disrupted a suspected terrorist group working for Iran's secret services. The people were gathering intelligence and had acquired a large number of weapons and explosives, the ministry said. The group, led by a Sepah officer called Hamid and Hezbollah operative Hadji Abbas, was planning to stage attacks against the Israeli embassy and a Jewish cultural center in the Azeri capital Baku. To response this,Iranian Hacking Group "Cocain TeaM" attack on the websites of Azerbaijan airlines (https://azerbaijanairlines.org/) and National Olympic Committee Of Azerbaijan (https://noc-aze.org) and manage to collect lot of info and sent that to Iranian Governments to show their patriotic responsibility towards country. Cocain TeaM deface the websites also. Mirror of Hacks: 1.)   https://zone-h.com/mirror/id/17070956 2.) ...

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 https://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...