Last week we held our first webinar in the Threat Review Series where we focus on new or interesting threats in the security landscape and how to protect against them. It was an interesting session as we featured three very different types of threats – a botnet, a Windows application vulnerability and the always engaging [...]

A New York school district had US$3.8M pilfered by cyber-criminals, who may have used a common banking trojan to gain valid login credentials to the district’s accounts.  The very same trojan making the rounds on social networks like Facebook.  The district has recovered most of the money, but is still out nearly US$500K.

As a follow up to last week’s post regarding Mariposa infection research, Yamata Li of the Palo Alto Networks Threat Research Team has developed a Wireshark plugin that will allow you to view obfuscated pcaps of traffic from a Mariposa infected client and actually decrypt them within Wireshark. The software is available to all as [...]