Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2018
Imperva’s research shows 75% of open Redis servers are infected

According to the security experts at Imperva firm, three open Redis servers out of four are infected with malware. The discovery is the result of analysis conducted by running Redis-based honeypot servers for some months. Since their initial report on the RedisWannaMine attack that propagates through open Redis and Windows servers, the experts from Imperva have discovered a new […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2018
Crooks included the code for CVE-2018-8174 IE Zero-Day in the RIG Exploit Kit

Cyber criminals recently added the code for the CVE-2018-8174 Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability to the infamous RIG exploit kit. Crooks recently added the code for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability to the infamous RIG exploit kit. The Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-8174, was first discovered a few weeks ago, it affects VBScript implemented in Internet Explorer and Microsoft […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2018
Crooks expand the original Mirai botnet code base with new capabilities and improvements

Cybercriminals continue to improve the infamous Mirai botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities, experts warn new dangerous variant will appear in the wild. According to Netscout’s Arbor Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT), cybercriminals continue to improve the dreaded Mirai IoT botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities. The time to market of new Mirai botnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2018
At least 90,000 Canadian bank customers may have been affected by two data breach

On Monday, Two Canada’s five largest banks, the Bank of Montreal (BMO) and Simplii Financial, informed their customers they are investigating a data breach. The security breach suffered by the Bank of Montreal (BMO) may have impacted less than 50,000 of the overall 8 million customers, the incident suffered by Simplii Financial may have exposed information of 40,000 clients. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2018
New Banking Trojan MnuBot uses SQL Server for Command and Control

Researchers at IBM X-Force Research team discovered a new Delphi-based banking Trojan dubbed MnuBot that leverages Microsoft SQL Server for communication with the command and control (C&C). The MnuBot Trojan implements a two-stage attack flow, it is composed of two main components that are tasked for the two stages. In the first stage, the malware searches for a file […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2018
Hacker stole $1.35 million from cryptocurrency startup Taylor

Hacker stole $1.3 million from cryptocurrency startup Taylor, the development team will stop the launch of its trading app that was initially planned for this month. The author of the Taylor cryptocurrency trading app announced a security breach, an unknown hacker has stolen around $1.35 million worth of Ether from the wallets of the company. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2018
The Cobalt Hacking crew is still active even after the arrest of its leader

Group-IB has released a new report on Cobalt group’s attacks against banks and financial sector organizations worldwide after the arrest of its leader. Threat intelligence firm Group-IB published an interesting report titiled “Cobalt: Evolution and Joint Operations” on the joint operations of Cobalt and Anunak (Carbanak) groups after the arrest of the leader in March 2018. Researchers reported that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2018
BackSwap Trojan implements new techniques to steal funds from your bank account

Security experts at ESET have spotted a new strain of banking trojan named BackSwap Trojan that implements new techniques to steal money from bank customers. The new techniques allow the malware to bypass anti-malware solutions and security features implemented by browsers to prevent Man-In-The-Browser attacks. Banking malware use to inject malicious code into the web page, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2018
MalHide Malware uses the compromised system as an eMail relay

The cybersecurity experts Marco Ramilli analyzed a new sample of malware dubbed MalHide that implements a quite new attack path to use the compromised system as eMail relay in order to hide the attacker networks. Today I’d like to share an interesting (at least to me) analysis on a given sample. I have called this sample MalHide but […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2018
Experts noticed an ongoing activity involving the RIG Exploit Kit to deliver the Grobios Trojan

Malware researchers from FireEye recently noticed an interesting ongoing activity involving the infamous RIG Exploit Kit (EK) to deliver the Grobios Trojan. Security experts highlighted several times the decline of the exploit kit activity after the disappearance of the Angler and Nuclear exploit kits in 2016. Anyway, researchers at FireEye periodically observe significant developments in this […]