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Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2019
Anubis II – malware and afterlife

Due to the growing demand for Android banking malware, threat actors continue using Anubis even is the creator has vanished. Introduction Besides being the Egyptian God associated with mummification and afterlife, Anubis is also an Android banking malware that has caused quite some trouble for over 300 financial institutions worldwide since 2017. Anubis II is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2019
Free Tools: spotting APTs through Malware streams

Cyber security expert and founder of Yoroi has published a new tool that could be used to spot APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) through Malware streams. There are many ways to spot Advanced Persistent Threats, for example during a forensic analysis on “high rate incident” or having sandbox systems on critical infrastructures or again working as […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2019
Hackers raised fake tornado alarms in two Texas towns

Hackers took control of the emergency tornado alarms in Texas causing the panic, it has happened on March 12th, at around 2:30 a.m., On March 12th, at around 2:30 a.m. in two towns in Texas (the DeSoto and Lancaster areas) hackers took control of the emergency tornado alarms causing the panic among residents. The alarms […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2019
PewDiePie ransomware oblige users subscribe to PewDiePie YouTube channel

It is a battle with no holds barred between T-Series and PewDiePie, their fans are spreading the PewDiePie ransomware to force users to subscribe to PewDiePie Youtube channel. The story I’m going to tell you is another chapter of the battle between the most followed Youtuber T-Series and PewDiePie. T-Series is an Indian music company, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2019
Telegram allows users to delete any sent/received message from both sides with no time limit

Telegram development team implemented a new feature that allows users to delete any received message from the sender’s device. Telegram announced a new feature to improve user privacy, the development team implemented a functionality that allows users to delete any received message from the sender’s device. Two years ago, Telegram introduced the “unsend” feature that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2019
Microsoft Defender ATP now protects also macOS

Microsoft has announced the availability of Defender ATP Endpoint Security for Apple macOS Microsoft has announced the availability of Microsoft 365 advanced endpoint security solution across platforms, with the support of Apple Mac it added to Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). Microsoft Windows Defender ATP was first introduced in 2016 as a defensive solution […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2019
Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) data leak exposes data of 2.3M survivors

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) has disclosed a data leak that exposed banking details and other personal information of 2.3 million survivors. In case of national disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) offers a program called Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) that provides shelter to survivors.  News of the day is that FEMA has […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 206 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Experts uncovered a malspam campaign using Boeing 737 Max crashes gnosticplayers offers 26 Million new accounts for sale on the Dark Web Massive attacks bypass MFA on Office 365 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2019
WordPress Social Warfare plugin zero-day exploited in attacks

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Social Warfare installations (v3.5.1 and v3.5.2) is actively exploited to add malicious redirects. The vulnerability in the WordPress plugin has been fixed with the release of the 3.5.3 version of the plugin. Vulnerable versions of the Social Warfare plugin are currently installed on more than 70,000 websites. The plugin […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2019
Malware Static Analysis

Malware researcher and founder of Yoroi Marco Ramilli shared a simple tool for malware static analysis he used to perform massive Malware analysis research. The following interface stands in front of a live engine which takes binary files and runs them against a plethora of hundreds of YARA rules. Some of them are publicly available […]