Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2017
The Europol coordinated an international operation that dismantled a cybercrime ring that was offering services and tools to conceal malware. The Europol dismantled a cybercrime ring as the result of a joint investigation conducted by Spanish and British law enforcement authorities (The Spanish National Police, the UK’s Regional Cyber Crime Unit for Tackling North West […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2017
Millions of users looking to get software updates have downloaded an app hiding a spyware called SMSVova through the official Google Play store. Bad news for millions of Android users looking to get software updates, they have been tricked into downloading a spyware called SMSVova through the official Google Play store. Experts at Zscaler discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2017
Symantec observed the Hajime IoT malware leaving a message on the devices it infects, is it the work of a cyber vigilante? The Mirai botnet is the most popular thingbot, it is targeting poorly configured and flawed ‘Internet of Things’ devices since August 2016, when the threat was first discovered by the researcher MalwareMustDie. Many other bots threaten […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2017
The InterContinental Hotels Group announced that last week payment card systems at more than 1,000 of its hotels had been compromised by crooks. The multinational hotel chain owns prestigious brands like Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza. This is the second time that the InterContinental Hotels Group suffers a credit card breach, early this year the hotel chain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2017
Experts at Recorded Future have discovered a cheap RaaS, the Karmen Ransomware that deletes decryptor if detects a sandbox. Security experts from threat intelligence firm Recorded Future have spotted a new ransomware as a service (RaaS) called Karmen. The service allows customers to easy create their ransomware campaign in a few steps and without specific skills. Wannabe-crooks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2017
Security researchers who analyzed the documents and hacking tools included in the last Shadow Brokers dump found a link to the Stuxnet virus. On Friday, the Shadow Brokers leaked a new bunch of files belonging to the alleged NSA arsenal. Security researchers who analyzed the documents and hacking tools included in the last dump have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2017
CradleCore ransomware is a malware offered in the underground as a source code, instead of the classic ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model. According to the experts at Forcepoint, the author is offering the malware in many Tor-based crime forums as source code allowing crooks to request a customized version of the code. The CradleCore ransomware is offered by the author as a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2017
The Sundown EK has been inactive since early this year, the Terror EK is being very popular in the cybercriminal ecosystem. One year ago the Angler EK and Nuclear EK disappeared from the threat landscape, while the Sundown EK was conquering the criminal underground. What’s happening now? The Sundown EK has been inactive since early this year, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2017
Experts at IBM X-Force security firm warn of a new Mirai Botnet implementing Bitcoin crypto-currency mining capabilities. The Mirai botnet was first spotted in august 2016 by the security researcher MalwareMustDie, it was specifically designed to compromise vulnerable or poorly protected IoT. Once Mirai malware compromises an IoT device it recruits it into a botnet primarily used for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2017
Millions of people were targeted by a phishing campaign exploiting a Microsoft Word 0day and aimed to spread the Dridex Banking Trojan. Recently security experts from firms McAfee and FireEye warned of a Microsoft Word zero-day exploited by attackers in the wild. Just opening an MS Word document could put Windows users at risk, the exploitation of the flaw could […]
