Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2019
Security researchers at McAfee have linked the Op. Sharpshooter with the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group after analyzing code from a command and control (C2) server. Security experts at McAfee analyzed the code of a C2 server involved in the cyber espionage campaign tracked as Op. Sharpshooter and linked it with the North Korea-linked APT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2019
The Necurs Botnet continues to evolve, a new strategy aims at hiding in the shadows, and leverages new payloads to recruits new bots. Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet, it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware, the Scarab ransomware, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2019
SI-LAB captured a piece of the FlawedAmmyy malware that leverages undetected XLM macros as an Infection Vehicle to compromise user’s devices. In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 macro, also known as XLM macro, and used to download and execute a final […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2019
Experts analyzed tools and intrusion methods used by theChina-linked cyber-espionage group Emissary Panda in attacks over the past 2 years. This morning I wrote about a large-scale cyber attack that hit the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in November 2016, Emissary Panda was suspected to be the culprit. Experts at Secureworks reports who investigated the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2019
Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab analyze a new GoLang botnet named GoBrut, the investigation allowed to discover that the bot supports a lot more features Introduction Malware written in Go programming language has roots almost a decade ago, few years after its first public release back in 2009: starting from InfoStealer samples discovered since 2012 and abused in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2019
Security expert Marco Ramilli analyzed a new piece of malware apparently designed to target PIK-Group that implements ransomware, Trojan, and Miner capabilities. When an unknown sender suggests me to click on a super wired url, dropping a ZIP file straight in my box, by saying it’s getting the next targeted attack on a huge company, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2019
Security researchers at Cisco Talos are warning of a spike in attacks on unsecured Elasticsearch clusters to drop cryptocurrency miners. Cisco Talos experts have reported a spike in the attacks thatleverage known flaws to compromise unsecured Elasticsearch clusters and use them to mine crypto-currencies. At least six different threat actors are targeting installs running older […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2019
Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab investigated artefacts behind Australian Parliament attack to have an insight of Tools and Capabilities associated with the attackers. Introduction In the past days, a cyber attack targeted a high profile target on the APAC area: the Australian Parliament House. As reported by the Australian prime minister there was no evidence of any information theft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2019
The Russian hacker Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov pleads guilty to bank fraud after running a botnet that spread ‘NeverQuest’ malware for three years. The Russian hacker Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov, aka “Black,” “Blackf,” is accused of using the NeverQuest banking Trojan to steal login information from victims. The man has pled guilty to one count of conspiracy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2019
Experts discovered a malspam campaign that is distributing a malicious RAR archive that could exploit the WinRAR flaw to install deliver malware on a computer. A few days ago, security experts at CheckPoint software have disclosed a critical 19-year-old vulnerability in the WinRAR that could be exploited by attackers to gain full control over a […]
