Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2018
Security researchers at Cybereason recently discovered a credential-stealing malware dubbed Fauxpersky, that is masquerading as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreading via infected USB drives. Fauxpersky was written in AutoIT or AutoHotKey, which respectively are a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting and a free keyboard macro program to send keystrokes to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
A ransomware infected systems at the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam power company in India, crooks demanded 10 million Rupees to get the data back. The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam power company in India was hacked last week, attackers breached into its computer systems and stole the billing data of their customers. The hackers demanded 10 million Rupees to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
Security researchers at Arbor Networks have discovered a threat actor targeting financial institutions in Japan using the Panda Banker banking malware (aka Zeus Panda, PandaBot). Panda Banker was first spotted 2016 by Fox-IT, it borrows code from the Zeus banking Trojan. In November 2017, threat actors behind the Zeus Panda banking Trojan leveraged black Search Engine Optimization (SEO) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2018
According to a report from the Seattle Times, the dreaded WannaCry ransomware hit a Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday. WannaCry is back, this time it infected some systems belonging to US aircraft manufacturer Boeing. According to a report from the Seattle Times, the dreaded ransomware hit a Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2018
Who is behind the newborn Grey Heron surveillance company? According to an investigation conducted by Motherboard, the firm is linked to the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team. The development and sale of surveillance software is a profitable business, many government agencies use spyware for different purposes, in some their involvement is very questionable. Early this month, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2018
Security experts at Cisco Talos discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed online. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed online. The malicious code was written in Go programming language, uncommon for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2018
Computer systems in the City of Atlanta were infected by ransomware, the cyber attack was confirmed by the City officials. The city learned of the attack at around 5:40 am local time on Thursday. On Thursday, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on Thursday that a malware has taken in hostage some internal systems, city’s data were encrypted. Mayor @KeishaBottoms holds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2018
Security experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new Android Trojan dubbed TeleRAT that uses Telegram Bot API to communicate with the command and control (C&C) server and to exfiltrate data. TeleRAT appears to be originating from and/or to be targeting individuals in Iran, experts found similarities with another Android malware dubbed IRRAT Trojan, which also leverages […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2018
My new book, titled ‘Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web’ is available online, enjoy it. It’s a pleasure and an honor for me to announce the availability of my book “Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web“ Kindle Edition — Paper Copy What is the Deep Web and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2018
A new cyber attack against a Saudi petrochemical plant made the headlines, hackers attempted to hit the infrastructure in August. Do you remember the powerful cyber attack that in 2012 hit computers at Saudi Aramco? A new cyber attack against a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia made the headlines, hackers attempted to hit the infrastructure in August. […]
