Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2017
Malware researchers at security firm Fortinet have spotted MacRansom, it is the first Mac ransomware offered as a RaaS Service. Malware researchers at security firm Fortinet have spotted a new strain of ransomware dubbed MacRansom that targets Mac machines. The malware is available with Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model through a hidden service in the TOR network. Experts believe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2017
Security researchers at Trend Micro used Tor honeypots to conduct a six-months study of the attack landscape of the Dark Web, Security experts at Trend Micro have conducted a six-months study of the attack landscape of the Dark Web, researchers operated a honeypot setup simulating several underground services on the Dark Web in order to analyze […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2017
Personal and financial information about Gamestop online shoppers could have been compromised in a breach occurred between Aug. 10, 2016 to Feb. 9, 2017 GameStop is the last victim of a data breach, customers received a security breach notification warnings this week. Personal and financial information could have been compromised in a breach occurred between Aug. 10, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2017
Experts at Trend Micro observed a spam campaign leveraging the PowerPoint ‘Mouseover’ attack to deliver the Gootkit banking Trojan. Earlier this week, the security expert Ruben Daniel Dodge published an interesting post on a new technique to deliver malware through PowerPoint files leveraging on mouseover events. Now experts at Trend Micro revealed details of a spam campaign they detected in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2017
Thousands of IP cameras have been hijacked by the Persirai IoT botnet that targets more than 1,000 IP camera models, but it isn’t the only one. Thousands of IP cameras have been hijacked by the Persirai IoT botnet that targets more than 1,000 IP camera models. Early May, the researchers at Trend Micro discovered a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2017
Malicious ads in Google search results for the US retail giant Target redirected users to a tech support scam. The malvertising campaign was first reported last week by a US user who posted his observations to a StackExchange thread and was then reported by Bleepingcomputer.com. Just querying Google for the term “target,” users were displayed on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2017
Experts killed tens of thousands of subdomains used by crooks to host the RIG Exploit Kit that were set up with a domain shadowing campaign. GoDaddy and RSA Security, with the support of other security companies and researchers, have shut down tens of thousands of illegally established subdomains used by crooks to host the RIG Exploit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2017
Security experts at IBM noticed that hundreds to thousands of Active Directory users were locked out of their company’s domain by the QakBot Banking malware Malware researchers at IBM noticed that hundreds to thousands of Active Directory users were locked out of their organization’s domain, the incident is caused by the Qbot banking malware. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2017
Security researchers linked Jaff ransomware campaigns to the backend infrastructure used by operators behind a black market. Security researchers at Heimdal Security who are investigating a new strain of Jaff ransomware discovered that the malware is sharing the backend infrastructure with a black market offering for sale stolen card data and account information. The black […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2017
Security Experts are observing a significant increase in the number of malware and hacking tools leveraging the ETERNALBLUE NSA exploit. ETERNALBLUE is the alleged NSA exploit that made the headlines with DOUBLEPULSAR in the WannaCry attack. ETERNALBLUE targets the SMBv1 protocol and it has become widely adopted in the community of malware developers. Investigations on WannaCry […]
