ClearSky Cyberdefense Forum

nderground hacker forums are full of complaints from users angry that a developer of some popular banking Trojan or bot program has stopped supporting his product, stranding buyers with buggy botnets. Now, the proprietors of a new ZeuS Trojanvariant are marketing their malware as a social network that lets customers file bug reports, suggest and vote on new features in upcoming versions, and track trouble tickets that can be worked on by the developers and fellow users alike.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/01/citadel-trojan-touts-trouble-ticket-system/

Hackers have posted source code for Symantec’s pcAnywhere software online after an attempt to extort money from the company fell through.

The extortion try is chronicled in a chain of emails that began in January and culminated with a $50,000 offer to hacker YamaTough in exchange for the code. Everything was not as it seemed, however, according to the company: The hacker was actually communicating with law enforcement.
Link to the emails :http://pastebin.com/GJEKf1T9

http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/security/attacks-breaches/232600404/hackers-post-symantec-source-code-after-failed-extortion-attempt.html

Terrorists combining a cyber attack with physical violence are the biggest security threat facing the 2012 Olympics, a digital forensics expert told CNBC.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/46278420

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world’s websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company.

The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston, Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the integrity of Web addresses ending in .com, .net and .gov.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/02/verisign-hack_n_1249275.html