February

Watch me, watch this, watch that (IT Toolbox Blogs)

2016-02-08 14:06

T9000 backdoor steals documents, records Skype conversations, victims' actions (Help Net Security)

2016-02-08 13:49

A new backdoor Trojan with spyware capabilities is being used in targeted attacks against organizations based in the United States. It has been dubbed T9000, since it's a newer, improved version of th...

#backdoor #security #skype

Modern Defenders Share, Visualize and Succeed (Threatpost)

2016-02-08 13:05

Microsoft’s John Lambert said today at Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit that today’s network defenders need to be pliable, share threat information, and view their network dependencies as...

#threatpost

Metel Bank Robbers Borrowing from APT Attacks (Threatpost)

2016-02-08 12:20

At the Security Analyst Summit, Kaspersky Lab researchers unveiled three cybercrime outfits—Metel, GCMAN, and Carbanak 2.0—targeting Russian banks with APT-style tactics.

#APT #attack #bank #threatpost

Twitter suspended 125,000 terrorism-related accounts (Help Net Security)

2016-02-08 11:36

Since mid-2015, Twitter has suspended over 125,000 accounts "for threatening or promoting terrorist acts." Most of these were related to ISIS. "We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism an...

#security #terrorism #twitter