March 2016

Bulletin articles published by Virus Bulletin in March 2016

VB2015 paper: Mobile Banking Fraud via SMS in North America: Who’s Doing it and How

Nearly every day, cybercriminals are using scams over mobile messaging to execute several types of money-stealing mobile attacks on North American banks. This paper will use real-world data obtained from various mobile operators showing cybercriminal…

Throwback Thursday: Hash Woes

In 2004, the entire crypto community was abuzz with the news that a group of Chinese researchers had demonstrated flaws in a whole set of hash functions - VB took a closer look to clarify the situation and draw lessons from the incident.

Throwback Thursday: 'In the Beginning was the Word...'

Word and Excel’s internal file formats used to be something in which few were interested – but the appearance of macro viruses in the mid 90s changed all that, as Andrew Krukov explains.

All Your Meetings Are Belong to Us: Remote Code Execution in Apache OpenMeetings

During an audit of the Apache OpenMeetings program code, Andreas Lindh came across two vulnerabilities which, with some additional trickery, would allow for an unauthenticated attacker to gain remote code execution on the system, with knowledge of an…

VBSpam Comparative Review March 2016

Eighteen full anti-spam solutions participated in the March 2016 VBSpam test, all of which easily achieved a VBSpam award by blocking 99.8% or more spam.

 

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Nexus Android banking botnet – compromising C&C panels and dissecting mobile AppInjects

Aditya Sood & Rohit Bansal provide details of a security vulnerability in the Nexus Android botnet C&C panel that was exploited to compromise the C&C panel in order to gather threat intelligence, and present a model of mobile AppInjects.

Cryptojacking on the fly: TeamTNT using NVIDIA drivers to mine cryptocurrency

TeamTNT is known for attacking insecure and vulnerable Kubernetes deployments in order to infiltrate organizations’ dedicated environments and transform them into attack launchpads. In this article Aditya Sood presents a new module introduced by…

Collector-stealer: a Russian origin credential and information extractor

Collector-stealer, a piece of malware of Russian origin, is heavily used on the Internet to exfiltrate sensitive data from end-user systems and store it in its C&C panels. In this article, researchers Aditya K Sood and Rohit Chaturvedi present a 360…

Fighting Fire with Fire

In 1989, Joe Wells encountered his first virus: Jerusalem. He disassembled the virus, and from that moment onward, was intrigued by the properties of these small pieces of self-replicating code. Joe Wells was an expert on computer viruses, was partly…

Run your malicious VBA macros anywhere!

Kurt Natvig wanted to understand whether it’s possible to recompile VBA macros to another language, which could then easily be ‘run’ on any gateway, thus revealing a sample’s true nature in a safe manner. In this article he explains how he recompiled…

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