Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2017
Triton malware – A new strain of malware specifically designed to target industrial control systems (ICS) system has been spotted by researchers at FireEye A new strain of malware dubbed Triton specifically designed to target industrial control systems (ICS) has been spotted by researchers at FireEye. The Triton malware has been used in attacks aimed at an unnamed critical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2017
The US DoJ announced plea agreements for Paras Jha, Josiah White, and Dalton Norman, 21 for creating and operating the dreaded Mirai botnet. US authorities charge three men with developing and running the dreaded Mirai botnet that was involved in several massive DDoS attacks. According to documents released by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2017
It has happened again, several banking Trojan samples have been found on Google Play, this time the malicious code targeted a number of Polish banks. The malware was disguised as seemingly legitimate apps “Crypto Monitor”, a cryptocurrency price tracking app, and “StorySaver”, a third-party tool for downloading stories from Instagram. The malicious code is able to display […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2017
Experts at Malwarebytes warns of a new variant of the macOS OceanLotus backdoor is using an innovative technique to avoid detection, A few years ago the bad actors realized they could use UNICODE characters that looked like English characters to lead unsuspecting victims to malicious websites. Now, they have figured out how to use a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
Group-IB spotted the operations of a Russian-speaking cyber gang tracked as MoneyTaker group that stole as much as $10 million from US and Russian banks. Researchers from security firm Group-IB has spotted the operations of a Russian-speaking cyber gang tracked as MoneyTaker that has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
According to the firm Carbon Black, Android ransomware kits are very popular in the dark web, and the median price range for them hits $200. According to the firm Carbon Black, Android ransomware kits are very popular in the dark web, more than 5,000 Android ransomware kit listings have been discovered in 2017. Even if most ransomware kits are still focused […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2017
A new IoT botnet leveraging the Linux.ProxyM malware is currently being used by crooks in a campaign attempting to hack websites. Security experts at Doctor Web discovered a new IoT botnet leveraging the Linux.ProxyM malware that is currently being used in a campaign attempting to hack websites. Experts first analyzed the Linux.ProxyM in July, it was used to create a proxy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2017
According to Fortinet, crooks are abusing the Orcus RAT to target Bitcoin investors with their malicious software. Crooks always follow money trying to catch any opportunity, such as the recent spike in the value of Bitcoin. According to the experts from Fortinet, cybercriminals are abusing the Orcus RAT to target Bitcoin investors with their malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2017
Google fixed a bug dubbed Janus that could be exploited by attackers to inject malicious code into Android apps without affecting an app’s signature. Google fixed four dozen vulnerabilities this week, including a bug dubbed Janus that could be exploited by attackers to inject malicious code into Android apps without affecting an app’s signature verification certificates. Millions of Android […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2017
Nearly 5,500 WordPress websites are infected with a malicious script that logs keystrokes and in some loads a cryptocurrency miner in the visitors’ browsers. The experts from security firm Sucuri observed that that malicious script is being loaded from the “cloudflare.solutions” domain, that anyway is not linked with Cloudflare. According to PublicWWW, this malicious script […]
