Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2019
Yoroi ZLab â Cybaze uncovered a new wave of Ursnif attacks using a variant that implements an exotic process injection technique called AtomBombing Another wave of Ursnif attacks hits Italy. Ursnif is one of the most active banking trojans. It is also known as GOZI, in fact, it is a fork of the original Gozi-ISFB banking Trojan that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2019
Security experts at Check Point discovered a new backdoor dubbed âSpeakUpâ targeting Linux servers in East Asia and Latin America. Malware researchers at Check Point have spotted a new Linux backdoor dubbed âSpeakUpâ targeting servers in East Asia and Latin America, The SpeakUp backdoor leverages known vulnerabilities in six different Linux distros, it is also able to infect […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2019
A 20-year-old college student that has stolen more than $5 million worth of cryptocurrency through SIM swapping attacks gets a 10 years jail sentence. Joel Ortiz, a young hacker (20) who stole more than $5 million worth of cryptocurrency by hijacking victims’ phone numbers has pleaded guilty for “SIM swapping” attacks. The college student accepted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2019
Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. A new type of cyber attack was used for the first time against the Metro Bank, threat actors are leveraging known flaws in the SS7 signaling protocol to intercept the codes sent via […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Using steganography to obfuscate PDF exploits Aztarna â […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2019
A sextortion scam campaign attempts to trick victims into believing that the adult site Xvideos.com was hacked and that crooks recorded its visitors. The creativity of cybercriminals is inexhaustible, a new variant of sextortion scam appeared in the threat landscape. A new sextortion scam campaign attempts to trick victims into believing that the popular adult […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2019
Security experts at Cybaze– Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. As usual, the malware looks like a legitimate e-mail attachment, named as âinvoice.docâ. Today, weaponized Microsoft office documents with macros, are one of the most common and more effective methods to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2019
Palo Alto Networks discovered a piece of Mac malware dubbed CookieMiner that is targeting browser cookies associated with cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service websites.. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks discovered a new piece of Mac malware dubbed CookieMiner that steals browser cookies associated with cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service websites along with other sensitive data. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2019
According to the ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2018, 2018 has brought significant changes in the techniques, tactics, and procedures associated with cybercrime organizations and nation-state actors. I’m proud to present you the ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2018, the annual report published by the ENISA ETL group that provides insights on the evolution of the cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2019
Europol and law enforcement agencies worldwide are investigating DDoS-for-hire services and hunting users that paid them to carry out cyber attacks. In April 2018, an international operation conducted by the European law enforcement agencies led by the UKâs National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Dutch Police, with the help of Europol, took down the worldâs […]
