Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2016
Security experts from the cyber threat intelligence firm Blueliv have published a report on the banking Trojan Vawtrak v2 its criminal ecosystem. Security experts from the cyber threat intelligence firm Blueliv have conducted a technical investigation on the banking Trojan Vawtrak v2 and activities of the cybercriminal groups behind the threat. Vawtrak is a threat that has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2016
Two security researchers have developed an undetectable PLC rootkit that will present at the upcoming Black Hat Europe 2016. The energy industry is under unceasing attack, cyber criminals, and state-sponsored hackers continue to target the systems of the companies in the sector. The Stuxnet case has demonstrated to the IT community the danger of cyber attacks, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2016
A Brazilian Infosec research group, Morphus Labs, just discovered a new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) Ransomware this week, dubbed Mamba. Mamba, as they named it, uses a disk-level encryption strategy instead of the conventional file-based one. This may be just the beginning of a new era for the Ransomware. In this article, Renato Marinho (@renato_marinho), […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2016
Vxers developed a new version of GovRAT, called GovRAT, that has been used to target government and many other organizations in the US. GovRAT is an old cyberespionage tool, it has been in the wild since 2014 and it was used by various threat actors across the years. Security experts from the threat intelligence company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2016
Surveillance is a profitable business, Motherboard has published a never-before-seen 10-minute video showing a live demo of a surveillance software. Recently, the iPhone hack carried out with the NSO Group‘s Pegasus raised the debate about the use of surveillance software. Who uses them? How? Are we able to defend our machines from a so invasive surveillance? NSO Group is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2016
Experts from Sophos discovered Mal/Miner-C, a malware designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. Malware researchers from security firm Sophos have analyzed a new strain of malware detected as Mal/Miner-C that was designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. The experts discovered that the new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2016
The researcher MalwareMustDie discovered LuaBot, a trojan completely coded in Lua language that is targeting Linux platforms to recruit them in DDoS botnet. Let’s continue our tour in Linux security, focusing on malicious code specifically designed to target such systems. The popular security researcher MalwareMustDie, who recently reported the new ELF trojan backdoorLinux/Mirai, also discovered a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2016
Experts from Dr Web discovered a new Linux Trojan called Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 that is written in the Rust programming language. It is a prolific period for Vxers working on Linux Trojan, a new strain was recently spotted by experts from Doctor Web. The new Linux Trojan has been named Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 and is written in the Rust programming language.Rust […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2016
Malware researchers from Kaspersky Lab confirmed the existence of an OS X variant of the Mokes backdoor discovered in January by Kaspersky. Malware researchers from Kaspersky Lab confirmed the existence of an OS X variant of a recently discovered family of cross-platform backdoors. The backdoors family was named Mokes and a strain of malware was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2016
CSTO ransomware it is able to query the Google Maps API to discover the victim’s location and connects to the C&C via UDP. Ransomware is considered by the security experts one of the most dangerous threats to Internet users and organizations across the world. Malware authors are developing new malicious codes that implement new features […]
