Application securityCousin of Bugat trojan, ‘Dridex,’ spreads using macrosDanielle WalkerNovember 6, 2014Trend Micro detailed the variant and attackers' delivery techniques.
Incident ResponseStudy: Organizations assailed by cyber attacks, 15 percent are targetedTeri RobinsonNovember 6, 2014Vectra's Post Breach Report analyzed data gathered from more than 100,000 hosts over five months.
MalwareExperts detect spike in Rovnix trojan infection in U.K.Marcos ColónNovember 5, 2014More than 130,000 computers have been infected by the malware in the country, which encrypts communication with its C&C servers to avoid detection.
Threat IntelligenceExperts share new insight on Sandworm APT exploits, BlackEnergy malwareDanielle WalkerNovember 4, 2014The Sandworm Team, a supposed Russian APT group, is known for spreading BlackEnergy malware by way of spear phishing.
Incident ResponseSpin.com redirects to Rig Exploit Kit, infects users with malware, Symantec observesAdam GreenbergNovember 4, 2014On Oct. 27, researchers with Symantec observed that Spin.com was redirecting visitors to the Rig Exploit Kit to serve them malware.
Incident ResponseNew version of Backoff detected, malware variant dubbed ‘ROM’Danielle WalkerNovember 3, 2014Researchers at Fortinet detailed the new variant on Monday, and urged businesses to keep their AV up to date.
Incident ResponseSome samples in ‘Rotten Tomato’ campaign not effectively executedTeri RobinsonNovember 3, 2014Researchers at Sophos provided additional details on the malware used in the attacks.
