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Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2016

Smile, you can recover files encrypted by the CryptXXX ransomware

Security experts at Kaspersky have found a way to decrypt files locked by the CryptXXX ransomware by using the RannohDecryptor utility. Good news for the victims of ransomware, the security experts at Kaspersky Lab have successfully cracked the CryptXXX ransomware. The CryptXXX ransomware was first spotted by experts from Proofpoint in April when a number of compromised websites hosting the Angler exploit kit were […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2016

Crooks abuse Facebook app platform for phishing attacks

Crooks are abusing the Facebook app platform to carry out some very insidious phishing attacks against the users of the popular social network. Security researchers at Netcraft spotted a new insidious phishing campaign that leveraged Facebook’s own trusted TLS certificate that is valid for all facebook.com subdomains. The phishing page is designed to look like a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2016

Pro-ISIS Hackers issued Kill List Of US Gov personnel

Pro-ISIS hackers belonging to the United Cyber Caliphate issue a kill list that includes dozens of U.S. government personnel. A few days ago, the US Government announced the first attack conducted by the Cyber Command against members of the ISIS online. The US Cyber Command will run hacking operations and use cyber weapons to destroy computer […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2016

Virus discovered at the Gundremmingen nuclear plant in Germany

According to the German BR24 News Agency, a computer virus was discovered in a system at the Gundremmingen nuclear plant in Germany. According to the German BR24 News Agency, a computer virus was discovered at the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant in Germany. Based on the initial assessment conducted by the experts, the virus didn’t affect […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2016

Garage4hackers – An open Information Security Community. w00t! w00t!

Who are we? Garage4hackers is one of the oldest open information security community for Information Security enthusiast and aspirants on the internet. We started off as an Orkut Community “Hackers Garage” back in 2007 and today we have more than 6K members sharing knowledge across various fields of infosec. “Our mission is to spread Infosec […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2016

Businesses pay $100k to alleged Armada Collective to avoid DDoS

Businesses have already paid more than $100,000 to DDoS extortionists who claim to be the dreaded Armada Collective, but that never DDoS anyone. A criminal organization made $100,000 from a number of businesses across the globe my threatening them of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The criminals requested to the victims the payment of a ransomware to avoid being […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2016

Dogspectus ransomware campaign relies on Leaked Hacking Team Exploits and Towelroot

Blue Coat spotted a new ransomware-based campaign serving the Dogspectus malware. Crooks combined a Hacking Team exploit and the Towelroot exploit. Security experts at Blue Coat have spotted a new campaign spreading an Android Ransomware dubbed Dogspectus. The malicious code hijacks mobile advertisements to scam gift cards, it locks the device in a state that allows only […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2016

GozNym Trojan even more sophisticated with a singular redirection mechanism

The cybercriminals behind the GozNym Trojan have started targeting users in European countries with a new singular redirection mechanism. Last week, security experts from the IBM X-Force Research spotted a new threat dubbed GozNym Trojan that combines Gozi ISFB and Nymaim malware abilities. The GozNym Trojan is particularly insidious, according to the researchers at the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2016

Bangladesh Bank heist gang used a malware and could strike again

A report published by the BAE firm reveals that criminals who stole $101 million from Bangladesh bank used a malware and could strike again. In March 2016, unknown hackers have stolen more than $100 million from the Bangladesh Bank account at the US Federal Reserve Bank. The experts confirmed that hackers breached the systems at […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2016

Faster Internet Adware silently takes screenshot of your PC

Security Experts at Bleeping Computer have discovered a new adware dubbed Faster Internet that takes a screenshot of victims’ computers. Security Experts at Bleeping Computer have spotted a new strain of adware, known as Faster Internet, that takes a screenshot of victims’ PCs. Lawrence Abrams, a computer security expert at Bleeping Computer, explained in a blog post […]

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