Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2016
Security experts from ProofPoint have spotted a new campaign operated by the APT Group NetTraveler that is targeting Russian and European organizations. NetTraveler is an ATP group first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, when researchers discovered an espionage activity against over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. The name of the operation derives from the malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2016
A newly emerging strain of malware dubbed Satana, which was first spotted last week, appears to be basing itself on crypto-lockers Petya and Mischa. Experts from Malwarebytes Labs have described the malicious software to be in the stage of âmalware-in-developmentâ with expected growth and evolution to occur over the coming weeks as its popularity and use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2016
Researchers devised a method to unmask malware’s use of TLS without decrypting the data flow. The technique relies on analysis of observable data features. A team of security experts from Cisco demonstrated that it is possible to detect a malware in TLS connections without decrypting the traffic and block it. The researchers Blake Anderson, Subharthi Paul […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2016
New threat dubbed Zepto Ransomware is spreading out with a new email spam campaign. It is a variant of the recent Locky Ransomware. The news was recently reported in a blog post by the Cisco Talos team: âWe are watching Zepto very carefully. Itâs closely tied to Locky, sharing many of the same attributes,â said Craig Williams, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2016
A malicious application named EasyDoc Converter.app delivers a sophisticated malware dubbed Eleanor malware that opens a Tor backdoor on the victim’s machine. Experts from security firm Bitdefender have spotted a new malware, dubbed Eleanor malware (Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor), that once compromised Macs set up a backdoor through Tor network. The malicious application, dubbed EasyDoc Converter.app, pretend to be a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2016
ESET security firm has uncovered an espionage toolkit dubbed SBDH that was used in espionage campaigns targeting government organizations in Europe. Security experts from ESET security firm have spotted an espionage toolkit dubbed SBDHÂ that was used by threat actors in hacking operations targeting government organizations in Europe. The research observed infections in many countries, including […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2016
Experts from security firm Heimdal Security have detected a malicious spam campaign delivering attachments laced with the Adwind RAT. Experts from cyber security firm Heimdal Security has spotted a spam campaign delivering the Adwind RAT (Remote Access Trojan). The threat is a privileged weapon in the arsenal of criminal organizations, the Adwind RAT is a cross-platform malware that can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2016
Security experts from Kaspersky monitored a phishing campaign launched to spread a Facebook malware that infected more than 10,000 users in just two days. Security experts from Kaspersky monitored a phishing campaign that hit Israeli media since June 26th. Thousands of Facebook users reported that they had been infected by a malware spread through the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2016
Experts from Cheetah Mobile firm revealed that the Hummer Android malware has already infected millions of smartphones worldwide. Security experts from the Cheetah Mobile firm are monitoring an Android malware dubbed Hummer since August 2014. The researchers noticed a significant increase in the number of infections in 2016, with a daily average of 1.4 million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2016
Canadian online users appear to be the current target of the latest wave of email-based phishing campaigns used to deliver banking malware. Canadian online banking users appear to be the current target of the latest wave of email-based phishing campaigns. While Canada hasnât been exempt from banking malware attacks in the past, it appears that […]
