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Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2018
New variant of the Mirai Botnet targets the financial industry

Early this year at least three European financial institutions were hit by DDoS attacks powered by a new variant of the Mirai botnet. A variant of the Mirai botnet, composed at lease of 13,000 compromised IoT devices was used to launch a series of DDoS attacks against financial sector businesses. The DDoS attacks peaked at up […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2018
VirusTotal presents its new Android Droidy sandbox

  VirusTotal announced on Thursday the launch of a new Android sandbox, named Droidy sandbox, that will replace the previous one that was designed in 2013. “Recently we called out Additional crispinness on the MacOS box of apples sandbox, continuing with our effort to improve our malware behavior analysis infrastructure we are happy to announce […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2018
OSX_OCEANLOTUS.D, a new macOS backdoor linked to APT 32 group

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new macOS backdoor that they linked to the APT 32 (OceanLotus, APT-C-00, SeaLotus, and Cobalt Kitty) cyber espionage group. The APT32 group has been active since at least 2013, according to the experts it is a state-sponsored hacking group. The hackers hit organizations across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2018
North Korea-Linked Lazarus APT suspected for online Casino assault

The North Korea-linked APT group known as Lazarus made the headlines again for attacking an online casino in Central America and other targets. The activity of the Lazarus Group (aka Hidden Cobra) surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2018
KevDroid Android RAT can steal private data and record phone calls

  Security researchers discovered a new Android Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed KevDroid that can steal private data and record phone calls. Security researchers at South Korean cybersecurity firm ESTsecurity have discovered a new strain of Android Trojan KevDroid that is being distributed disguised as a fake anti-virus application, dubbed “Naver Defender.” “Spear phishing attacks targeting Android […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2018
HiddenMiner Android Cryptocurrency miner can brick your device

Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android miner dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that can brick infected devices Crooks are looking with increasing interest cryptocurrency mining malware developed for mobile devices. Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android malware dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that abuse device CPU to mine Monero cryptocurrency. HiddenMiner […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018
Fauxpersky Keylogger masqueraded as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreads via USB drives

  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
Systems at a Power Company in India infected by a ransomware

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
The latest variant of the Panda Banker Trojan target Japan

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
Boeing production plant infected with WannaCry ransomware

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 […]

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