Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Security researchers from Chronicle, Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. Security experts from Chronicle, the Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have discovered a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. It is the first time that researchers found a Linux version of the backdoor user by China-linked APT groups tacked as Winnti. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO and fears its staff may be targeted by the company with its Pegasus spyware. The name NSO Group made the headlines last week after the disclosure of the WhatsApp flaw exploited by the company to remotely install its surveillance software. The Israeli firm is now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2019
A joint effort by international law enforcement agencies from 6 different countries has dismantled the crime gang behind the GozNym banking malware. GozNym banking malware is considered one of the most dangerous threats to the banking industry, experts estimated it allowed to steal nearly $100 million from over 41,000 victims across the globe for years. “An […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2019
The BlackTech cyber-espionage group exploited the ASUS update process for WebStorage application to deliver the Plead backdoor. The cyber espionage group tracked as BlackTech compromised the ASUS update process for WebStorage application to deliver the Plead backdoor. The BlackTech group was first observed by ESET on July 2018, when it was abusing code-signing certificates stolen from D-Link for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2019
The North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft (aka APT37 and Group123) continues to expand its arsenal by adding a Bluetooth Harvester. North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft (aka APT37, Reaper, and Group123) continues to expand its arsenal by adding a Bluetooth Harvester. ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2019
The popular expert Marco Ramilli provided a follow up to its Malware classification activity by adding a scripting section which would be useful for several purposes. On 2016 I was working hard to find a way to classify Malware families through artificial intelligence (machine learning). One of the first difficulties I met was on finding […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018 – In 2018 cyber-security experts observed an increased number of cyber attacks, malware endure to be the most aggressive and pervasive threat. For this reason, analyzing the last year occurred events would help cyber-security professionals to prevent further attacks during the next few months. In many cases the attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2019
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FCI published a new joint report on ELECTRICFISH, a malware used by North Korea. US DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a joint analysis of a traffic tunneling tool dubbed ELECTRICFISH used by North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Hidden Cobra (aka Lazarus). It […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2019
Global information services company Wolters Kluwer took offline has taken offline many of its applications and platforms in response to a ransomware attack. Another ransomware attack made hit a big company, this time the victim is the Global information services giant Wolters Kluwer that took offline some of the affected systems after the incident. Wolters […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2019
Threat actors are exploiting a Jenkins vulnerability (CVE-2018-1000861) disclosed in 2018 to deliver a cryptocurrency miner using the Kerberods dropper. SANS expert Renato Marinho uncovered an ongoing malicious campaign that is targeting vulnerable Apache Jenkins installs to deliver a Monero cryptominer dubbed Kerberods. According to the SANS Instituteâs Internet Storm Center, attackers are exploiting the […]
