Researchers Find Botnet Used to Steal Banking Information

Security researchers have discovered a botnet which appeared to control around 100,000 users in the United Kingdom. The cyber criminals running the botnet appear to be based in Eastern Europe and have been using the botnet to carry out financial fraud.

Researchers with Trusteer, a secure browsing service provider, discovered a Zeus version 2 botnet being used to collect banking login credentials, credit and debit card information, bank statements, account…

China Hosts Cybersecurity Conference

Cybersecurity experts from around the world are meeting in Beijing, China this week to discuss cyber issues, according to Chinese news agency Xinhuanet. Around 300 individuals from countries including the United States, Japan and Australia are attending the event, hosted by XFOCUS, a Chinese information security society.

The conference is designed to allow security…

Researchers Claim Unbreakable Cryptography

A group of researchers claim to have developed a way to encrypt messages so a user must be in a specific geolocation to unlock the message. The position-based quantum cryptography is currently scheduled to be presented at the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, which takes place in October.

In theory,…

Hack Exploits Google Street View to Find Victims

A security researcher has developed an attack which can be used for stalking, using JavaScript and geolocation information from Google to determine a victim’s location.

During a presentation at the BlackHat conference last week, titled “How I Met Your Girlfriend,” Samy Kamkar discussed the new method in detail. It works as follows:

1) the hacker lures the victim to a website which uses JavaScript to steal the router’s Media Access Control…

Saudi Arabia to Shut Down Blackberry Messenger Function Friday

Saudi Arabia’s telecommunications watchdog, the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), has asked telecom firms to block to messenger function on Blackberry devices by Friday. The ban would remain until all three mobile phone operators in Saudi Arabia complied with “the regulatory requirements it has requested.”

CITC did not specify what the regulatory requirements are,…

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House Cyber Caucus Launches Website

The House Cybersecurity Caucus has launched a new website to raise awareness regarding cybersecurity issues and serve as a forum for members of Congress to work together on cybersecurity legislation. Co-chairs of the caucus, Reps. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., and Mike McCaul, R-Texas, said they would like the website to be used as a forum for raising cyber…

Botnet Infiltrated by Researchers

Security researchers have managed to infiltrate a botnet which had amassed around 60GB of stolen information. The command and control servers were in charge of some 55,000 zombie computers by the time researchers infiltrated the botnet, according to researchers with AVG.

The botnet appeared to be the work of a sophisticated criminal gang called the Avalanche Group, which…

Bulgarian Police Hit Pirate Sites

Police in Bulgaria have conducted an extensive campaign to cut down on Internet piracy, closing down four torrent sites, according to the international recording industry association IFPI.

File sharing websites rapidadd.com, afasta.com, 4storing.com and nanoset.net are accused of serving as avenues for distributing pirated music, movies, games, books and software, IFPI said in a statement. The four sites are alleged to have been run by organized…

Jailbreak Exploit for iPhone Targets PDF

Following the recent ruling by the Library of Congress’ Patent Office,  an app called JailbreakMe 2.0 has become available that enables users to jailbreak the iPhone and iPod touch. The app uses a PDF exploit for approximately 20 different combinations of hardware and software, according to security researchers at F-Secure.

Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators said via Twitter: “Starting to get a handle on…