Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2018
A second sample of the Shamoon wiper was uploaded to Virus total on December 13, from the Netherlands, experts analyzed it. Last week security experts at Chronicle announced the discovery of a new variant of the infamous Shamoon malware, the sample was uploaded to Virus Total from Italy at around the time Italian oil services company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2018
Good news for the victims of the dreaded HiddenTear Ransomware, the popular cybersecurity expert Michael Gillespie has devised a tool dubbed HT Brute Forcer that could allow decrypting files for free. In 2015, the Turkish security researchers Utku Sen published the HiddenTear ransomware, the first open source ransomware, for educational purposes. The original code was decryptable, for this reason, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2018
McAfee uncovered a campaign tracked as Operation Sharpshooter that hit at least 87 organizations in global defense and critical infrastructure. Security experts at McAfee uncovered a hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Sharpshooter, aimed at infrastructure companies worldwide. The threat actors are using malware associated with Lazarus APT group that carried out Sony Pictures attack back in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2018
‘ The Seedworm APT Group has targeted more than 130 victims in 30 organizations since September including NGOs, oil and gas, and telecom businesses. According to a new research conducted from Symantec’s DeepSight Managed Adversary and ThreatIntelligence (MATI) team, the Seedworm APT group, aka MuddyWater, is rapidly evolving and extended its targets to the telecom, IT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2018
Experts from Malwarebytes discovered a new strain of Mac malware, tracked as DarthMiner, that is a combination of two open-source programs. Experts from Malwarebytes discovered a new piece of Mac malware, tracked as DarthMiner, that is the combination of two open source tools. The malware is distributed through Adobe Zii, an application supposedly helps in the piracy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2018
Malware researchers at Yoroi – Cybaze Z-Lab analyzed the MuddyWater Infection Chain observed in a last wave of cyber attacks. Introduction At the end of November, some Middle East countries have been targeted by a new wave of attacks related to the Iranian APT group known as âMuddyWaterâ: their first campaign was observed back in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2018
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI issued a joint alert on SamSam attacks targeting critical infrastructure. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI published a joint alert on the activity associated with the infamous SamSam ransomware. The SamSam hackers extorted over 200 organizations, including public institutions, municipalities, and hospitals, they […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2018
Palo Alto Networks recently discovered a malware dropper, dubbed CARROTBAT, that supports a dozen decoy document file formats to drop many payloads. Experts from Palo Alto Networks have recently discovered a malware dropper, dubbed CARROTBAT, that supports a dozen decoy document file formats to drop many payloads. Security experts from Palo Alto Networks have discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2018
Security experts reported a new strain of malware spreading in China, the malicious code rapidly infected over 100,000 PCs in just four days. Unfortunately, the number of infections is rapidly increasing because hackers compromised a supply chain. It is interesting to note that this ransomware requests victims to pay 110 yuan (nearly Euro 14) in ransom […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2018
Security experts at Yoroi – Cybaze Z-Lab discovered a new variant of the infamous Ursnif malware targeted Italian users through a malspam campaign. Introduction In the last weeks, a new variant of the infamous Ursnif malware was discovered hitting Italian users through a malspam campaign. In fact, Yoroi-Cybaze ZLAB isolated several malicious emails having the following content: Subject: âVS Spedizione […]
