Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2018
Experts at Yoroiâs Cyber Security Defence Center along with Fincantieriâs security team investigated the recently discovered Martymcfly malware attacks. Background On October 17th we disclosed the ‘MartyMcFly’ Threat (Rif. Analysis) where unknown attackers were targeting Italian naval industries. The analysis was cited by  Kasperskyâs ICS CERT who exposed a wider threat extension across multiple countries such as: […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2018
The author of an IoT botnet is distributing a backdoor script for ZTE routers that also includes his own backdoor to hack script kiddies A weaponized IoT exploit script is being used by script kiddies, making use of a vendor backdoor account to hack the ZTE routers. Ironically, this is not the only backdoor in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2018
According to Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report the number of potentially harmful applications has fallen from 0.66% in Lollipop to 0.06% in Pie Google published the first Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report that revealed that the number of potentially harmful applications (PHAs) discovered on Android 9 Pie devices has been reduced by half compared to the previous versions. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2018
Researchers from Trend Micro spotted a new cryptocurrency miner that leverages a rootkit component to hide its presence on the infected systems. Cryptocurrency malware continues to be a privileged choice for crooks and the number of victims is rapidly growing. Cryptocurrency miners are easy to detect due to the saturation of resources on the affected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2018
North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been using FastCash Trojan to compromise AIX servers to empty tens of millions of dollars from ATMs. Security experts from Symantec have discovered a malware, tracked as FastCash Trojan, that was used by the Lazarus APT Group, in a string of attacks against ATMs. The ATP group has been using this malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2018
Security researchers at 360 Netlab have discovered a new spam botnet, dubbed BCMPUPnP_Hunter, that likely already infected around 400,000 machines to date. Security experts from 360 Netlab security firm have recently discovered a new spam botnet, dubbed BCMPUPnP_Hunter, that mainly targets routers that have the BroadCom UPnP feature enabled. The BCMPUPnP_Hunter was first spotted in September, but researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2018
Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted an IRC bot dubbed Shellbot that was built using Perl Shellbot. The malware was distributed by a threat group called Outlaw, it was able to target Linux and Android devices, and also Windows systems. “We uncovered an operation of a hacking group, which weâre naming âOutlawâ (translation derived from the Romanian word haiduc, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2018
USB removable storage devices are the main vector for malware attacks against industrial facilities, states Honeywell report. According to a report published on by Honeywell, malware-based attacks against industrial facilities mostly leverage USB removable storage devices Experts from Honeywell analyzed data collected with the Secure Media Exchange (SMX), a product it has launched in 2017 and that was designed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·     How to deliver malware using weaponized Microsoft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2018
The author of the infamous Kraken ransomware has released a new version of the malicious code and launched a RaaS distribution program on the Dark Web. Researchers from Recorded Futureâs Insikt Group and McAfeeâs Advanced Threat Research team have discovered a new version of the malware that is offered through a RaaS distribution program on the Dark Web. […]
