We know that the family of malware called Trojan.MSIL.Jumcar and Trojan.Win32.Jumcar was developed in Peru with the primary aim of attacking Peruvian users. Read Full Article
Jumcar. Timeline, crypto, and specific functions. [Second part]
Jumcar stands out from other malicious code developed in Latin America because of its particularly aggressive features. At the moment three generations of this malware family exist. Read Full Article
Jumcar. From Peru with a focus on Latin America [First part]
Jumcar is the name we have given to a family of malicious code developed in Latin America – particularly in Peru – and which, according to our research, has been deploying attack maneuvers since March 2012. Read Full Article
AlbaBotnet, another new crime wave in Latin American cyberspace
After the recent emergence of the criminal PiceBOT in Latin America, AlbaBotnet has joined the growing ranks of regional IT crime. Read Full Article
New crimeware attacks LatAm bank users
Following in the wake of the vOlk (Mexico) and S.A.P.Z. (Peru) botnets comes PiceBOT, a newbie to the Latin American cybercrime scene. The cost on the black market is currently around $140. Read Full Article
BoteAR: a “Social Botnet”?
In information security, talk about botnets equals talk about malicious actions that materialize through criminal action. In essence, we think there is always a hostile attitude on the part of those who administer them. Please correct me colleagues, refute this… Read Full Article
Latin American banks under fire from the Mexican VOlk-Botnet
Latin America has ceased to be a region that simply receives attacks from across the world. Since late 2009 it has begun to copy fraudulent business models through which American cybercriminals have begun producing their own criminal resources. Read Full Article
Kaspersky Lab… also in my list of DDoS attacks! [by SpyEye]
The title of this post suggests that I’ve been thinking of one of the cyber-criminals that uses SpyEye, maybe in admiration! But actually his cyber-criminal actions overshadow anything else. Read Full Article
Ice IX, the first crimeware based on the leaked ZeuS sources
After rumors about the supposed merger between SpyEye and ZeuS, and the public release of the source of the latter, it was logical that the range of possibilities opened up even more for new cybercriminals into the ecosystem of crimeware. Read Full Article
Amazon S3 exploiting through SpyEye
Many Cloud Computing providers offer gigabytes of storage for free, and the cybercriminals use to maintain and spread malware of all the kind. At the same time, many legitimate services are not free, but are still very attractive to cybercrime gangs. In the case of Amazon, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) does the trick. Read Full Article