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Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2016
Watch out the Satana ransomware is comining

A newly emerging strain of malware dubbed Satana, which was first spotted last week, appears to be basing itself on crypto-lockers Petya and Mischa. Experts from Malwarebytes Labs have described the malicious software to be in the stage of “malware-in-development” with expected growth and evolution to occur over the coming weeks as its popularity and use […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2016
Unmasking malware’s use of TLS without flow decryption

Researchers devised a method to unmask malware’s use of TLS without decrypting the data flow. The technique relies on analysis of observable data features. A team of security experts from Cisco demonstrated that it is possible to detect a malware in TLS connections without decrypting the traffic and block it. The researchers Blake Anderson, Subharthi Paul […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2016
New Locky variant – Zepto Ransomware Appears On The Scene

New threat dubbed Zepto Ransomware is spreading out with a new email spam campaign. It is a variant of the recent Locky Ransomware. The news was recently reported in a blog post by the Cisco Talos team: “We are watching Zepto very carefully. It’s closely tied to Locky, sharing many of the same attributes,” said Craig Williams, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2016
Eleanor malware uses a Tor backdoor to control Macs

A malicious application named EasyDoc Converter.app delivers a sophisticated malware dubbed Eleanor malware that opens a Tor backdoor on the victim’s machine. Experts from security firm Bitdefender have spotted a new malware, dubbed Eleanor malware (Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor), that once compromised Macs set up a backdoor through Tor network. The malicious application, dubbed EasyDoc Converter.app, pretend to be a […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2016
Yingmob Chinese Ad Company infected 10 million Android devices for click revenue

Chinese Ad company Yingmob ’s developers are allegedly responsible for the infection of approximately 10 million Android devices. Chinese Ad company Yingmob’s developers are allegedly responsible for the infection of approximately 10 million Android devices which is reportedly generating an income of around $300,000 USD per month. CheckPoint, the security company famous for their network […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2016
Identity theft – Serving up coffee and fraud

Cifas, a leading group in fraud protection, recently released its report on the fraud landscape for 2016 and the numbers are staggering. The first lesson taught to anyone working with classified data is that if someone can get all the little pieces of the picture, they’ll eventually have the whole picture.  Unfortunately, many users of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2016
The Global Eye – The world is not only what we see

If we want to be realistic we must say that the world is not only what we see. Our linear thinking, in fact, tends to not consider the “intangible”; we don’t see it and we can not measure, quantify and predict it. We need a complex thinking to imagine a ‘geopolitics’ that is, simultaneously, geo-philosophy, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2016
Espionage SBDH Toolkit used to target European Countries

ESET security firm has uncovered an espionage toolkit dubbed SBDH that was used in espionage campaigns targeting government organizations in Europe. Security experts from ESET security firm have spotted an espionage toolkit dubbed SBDH that was used by threat actors in hacking operations targeting government organizations in Europe. The research observed infections in many countries, including […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2016
Government wiretaps – You can’t stop what you can’t see

Report on wiretaps in 2015 suggests Americans are using less encryption to hide their activities online, is it really true. Last week, a wiretap report from 2015 surfaced on the United States Courts website that suggests Americans are using less encryption to hide their activities online but the report may not tell the whole story. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2016
Hacker found a flaw in the UK Defence Gateway that exposes army data

The security researcher from Government Lab Mohammed Adel has found a vulnerability in the UK Defence Gateway that exposes army data. The security researcher from Government Lab Mohammed Adel has found a vulnerability in the UK Defence Gateway, an application only for the staff use, that could be exploited by attackers to gain access to the […]