DMasti Network: Malware

Hackers steal 2 Million Facebook, Gmail, twitter accounts with Pony Botnet

0 DHacking News, Malware, Malware Report, Pony Malware, Security Breach Thursday, December 05, 2013

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-9LvE8h-G_4F_sf-uD1RzJ49fGvrYAJV5j_6QqqhCguiPmGMqSm6_NrQFAhQVkXcB2kb4UGhlITPys7YgCRTL2RzBnNqWJz3CLss6LHhRnInimAcWf2jkFI_GYjRif8sUMoFiht_kOM/s640/Pony-botnet-steals-2-million-passwords.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-9LvE8h-G_4F_sf-uD1RzJ49fGvrYAJV5j_6QqqhCguiPmGMqSm6_NrQFAhQVkXcB2kb4UGhlITPys7YgCRTL2RzBnNqWJz3CLss6LHhRnInimAcWf2jkFI_GYjRif8sUMoFiht_kOM/s640/Pony-botnet-steals-2-million-passwords.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cyber criminals have stolen more than two Million facbeook, Gmail, Twitter, Linkedin and yahoo accounts with the help of Pony malware, according to report from Trustwave.<br /><br />Security researchers at Trustwave gained access to the admin control panel of the "Pony botnet" which is storing a large amount stolen credentials from the infected machines.<br /><br />According to their <a href="http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/12/look-what-i-found-moar-pony.html" target="_blank">report</a>, around 1,580,000 website login credentials, 320,000 email credentials, 41,000 FTP credentials were stolen.<br /><br />Sponsored Links<br />Approximately 318121 facebook , 59549 yahoo, 54437 Google, 21708 Twitter login credentials were affected.<br /><br />The most commonly used password is appeared to be the unsurprisingly the weakest one.  As usual, '123456' password keep it's position in the top.  The second & third is '123456789' and '1234' respectively.<br /><br />Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and other services is reportedly resetting the account's passwords.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dated: Thursday, December 5, 2013</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>

Hackers steal 2 Million Facebook, Gmail, twitter accounts with Pony Botnet

Cyber criminals have stolen more than two Million facbeook, Gmail, Twitter, Linkedin and yahoo accounts with the help of Pony malware, accor...

CryptoLocker ransomware reduce the price for decrypting files

0 CryptoLocker, DHacking News, Malware, Malware Report, Ransomware Friday, November 22, 2013

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7UxE1eRtH8MdgrrVjmCf7CYbuetxNo5j2ZnRkhyphenhyphensk79UgJfT_-JLz0YeM0J-S_MHYPpb7XqPh2EokaFC6FHZCxipB9yoTb9eucGmgAIqu18sxO7ebbi6twq7bFF6LE2xalx5nc1VanZw/s400/cryptolocker-ransomware.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7UxE1eRtH8MdgrrVjmCf7CYbuetxNo5j2ZnRkhyphenhyphensk79UgJfT_-JLz0YeM0J-S_MHYPpb7XqPh2EokaFC6FHZCxipB9yoTb9eucGmgAIqu18sxO7ebbi6twq7bFF6LE2xalx5nc1VanZw/s320/cryptolocker-ransomware.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a bitcoin value continuous its climb, now it is more than $800, the criminals behind cryptolocker ransomware have also come with up an idea to reduce the price for decrypting files to 0.5 Bitcoins.<br /><br />Initially, the ransomware were asking victims to pay 2 Bitcoins as ransom in order to decrypt their files.<br /><br />The victims who failed to pay the ransom within a particular time will be asked to use their decryption service if they want to get back their encrypted files.  However, victims need to pay more than before.<br /><br />The new variant of CryptoLocker ransomware spotted by F-Secure security team on November 20 is asking users to pay 0.5 Bitcoins instead.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>

CryptoLocker ransomware reduce the price for decrypting files

As a bitcoin value continuous its climb, now it is more than $800, the criminals behind cryptolocker ransomware have also come with up an id...

Notorious Stuxnet malware infected Russian Nuclear Plant, claims Eugene Kaspersky

0 Cyber Attacks, DHacking News, Malware, Malware Report, Stuxnet Thursday, November 21, 2013

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9nFmWfuHzXx63yW2F-mdicf1h-0BtDM-akkoOsW1LwQvlB-x5OJklwnMdm_aN9Hjm07xbojEMCszYQQHG5svzmYCieCZ6F3zgwhvSzSNFN4f3mqAUhVxFc0HX0zF83eCzzCXqhoy-wg/s200/stuxnet-worm-infected-russian-nuclear-plant.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9nFmWfuHzXx63yW2F-mdicf1h-0BtDM-akkoOsW1LwQvlB-x5OJklwnMdm_aN9Hjm07xbojEMCszYQQHG5svzmYCieCZ6F3zgwhvSzSNFN4f3mqAUhVxFc0HX0zF83eCzzCXqhoy-wg/s200/stuxnet-worm-infected-russian-nuclear-plant.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span id="goog_1296650943"></span><span id="goog_1296650944"></span>The notorious Stuxnet malware which is widely believed to have been developed by US and Israel to target Iran Nuclear plants, managed to "badly" infect the internal network of Russian Nuclear power plant.<br /><br />Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the Russian antivirus company Kaspersky, said a friend of him working at unnamed nuclear plant told him that their nuclear plant network was disconnected from the internet which is badly infected by Stuxnet.<br /><br />"So unfortunately these people who were responsible for offensive technologies, they recognise cyber weapons as an opportunity." SC Magazine quoted Kaspersky as saying.<br /><br />"All the data is stolen," Kaspersky said. "At least twice."<br /><br />This is first time the Stuxnet infects the major nuclear plant outside of its intended target in Iran.<br /><br /><br />Dated: Monday, November 11, 2013</div><br /><br /><br /></div>