Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2014
Hackers steal user contact information and other data from a database of the European Central Bank website in an attempt of extortion. Financial institutions are under attack, the number of cyber attacks against banking industry is increasing constantly, last malicious campaign discovered in order of time is the Operation Emmental. A few days ago, bad […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2014
Security experts at Incapsula are observing a surge in the used of fake Googlebots to launch and carry out application-layer DDoS. Googlebots crawl websites are the software used to index and rank the content of websites for the popular search engine. It’s not a mystery that the visits of Googlebots are not considered a possible indicator […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2014
Trend Micro has discovered a malicious campaign named Operation Emmental, which is targeting online banking systems of financial institutions worldwide. Trend Micro has published a report on a hacking campaign dubbed “Operation Emmental” which targeted Swiss bank accounts whit a multi-faceted attack that is able to bypass two factor authentication implemented by the organization to secure its customers. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2014
Sentinel Labs firm discovered a sophisticated malware dubbed Gyges that is the mixing of commercial malicious code with code of alleged cyber weapon. Experts at Sentinel Labs security firm have discovered Gyges malware in the wild in March 2014, the malicious code appears very sophisticated to the researches which attributed it to a state-sponsored project. The level of complexity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2014
Security experts at TrendMicro have detected a spam campaign via Twitter which exploits the incident occurred to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. Unfortunately, tragedies like the one occurred to the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 or the recent escalation in Gaza are excellent occasions for cyber criminals that try to exploit the public attention to carry out illegal activities. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2014
Researchers at FireEye have detected a new variant of Havex RAT, which scans SCADA network via Object linking and embedding for Process Control (OPC). Security experts at F-Secure and Symantec have recently announced a surge of malicious campaigns based on âHavexâ malware against critical infrastructure. The bad actors behind the Havex campaign mainly targeted companies in the energy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2014
Security Experts at Bitdefender report that a new PushDo variant emerged from the underground compromising 11,000 machine in 24 hours. Security experts at BitDefender have recently detected a surge in the number of Pushdo trojan infections analyzing data from e sinkholing of C&C domains used by the malware. The experts discovered that the new Pushdo campaign is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2014
A security researcher has detailed Critroni ransomware, a new sophisticated malware which is being sold in different underground forums. In 2013 ransomware were among the menaces that monopolized the threat landscape, malware such as Cryptolocker infected hundreds of thousand machines worldwide. Critroni (aka CTB-Locker) is the name of the last ransomware which captured the attention of security experts, the malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2014
Russian hackers hit Nasdaq critical systems with with a malware-based attack with the primary intent to sabotage the U.S. financial world. It was October 2010 when the FBI started an investigation on alleged malware-based cyber attacks against on Nasdaq, probably related to the operation of a state-sponsored group of hackers. After more than 12 months in which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2014
A Security Researcher at Abuse.ch has started SSL blacklist project to create an archive of all the digital certificates used for illicit activities. In recent years security experts have discovered many cases in which bad actors have abused of digital certificates for illicit activities, from malware distribution to Internet surveillance. Botmasters are exploiting new techniques to avoid detection by security experts and […]
