Malware

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2015
Be aware enterprises, it’s time to block Tor network

A research conducted by the IBM X-Force team reveals that a growing number of cyber attacks against big IT enterprises relies on the Tor network. With the increase of Tor-based attacks, something needs to change, and IBM is advising companies to start blocking Tor. A research conducted by the IBM X-Force team reveals that SQL […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2015
Sphinx, a new variant of Zeus available for sale in the underground

A new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan dubbed was Sphinx is appeared for sale on the black market, it operates entirely through the Tor network. A few days ago a new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan was offered for sale on the black market, its name is Sphinx. Sphinx code is […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 23 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Dark marketplaces raked from $300,000 to $500,000 a day How to hack a Parrot drone on the fly How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2015
Thousands of WordPress sites host Neutrino Exploit Kit

Experts from security company Zscaler have uncovered a malware campaign which relies on thousands of hijacked WordPress sites hosting the Neutrino Exploit Kit. According to the experts at the Zscaler security firm, cybercriminals have compromised more than 2,600 WordPress websites over the past month and deployed malicious iframes on 4,200 distinct pages. The criminals exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2015
Hidden Tear Ransomware is now open Source and available on GitHub

The Turkish security researchers Utku Sen has published the first open source ransomware  for educational purposes that anyone can use. Ransomware is now open Source and available in GitHub. Ransomware is one of most dangerous cyber threats for end-users, in the recent months the number of ransomware in the wild is increased as never before. Criminal […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2015
Antivirus industry damaged by the Kaspersky’case

Kaspersky sustains the Reuters’s story on Antivirus false positives is based on information provided by anonymous former KL employees which are not reliable Some days ago, Reuters published a story about Kaspersky revealing that the Russian company was creating malicious codes to give them an upper hand against their direct competitors. Eugene Kaspersky in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 22 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. ZigBee-sniffing drone used to map online Internet of Things RollJam, a $30 device to unlock the majority of car doors Tesla tech top dog downs slug of Scotch, increases […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2015
Kaspersky accused of sabotage to harm competitors

According to two former employees the Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky has faked malware to harm competitors and cause false positive in their solutions. Two former employees, who requested anonymity, revealed that Kaspersky Lab tried to trick antivirus solutions of its competitors into flagging more false positives. Two anonymous former Kaspersky Lab employees told Reuters that […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2015
Attackers exploit a Windows flaw using a booby-trapped USB

Microsoft announced in the Tuesday’s bulletin that crooks have been exploiting a vulnerability that allows to execute malicious code using booby-trapped USB Microsoft announced in the last Tuesday’s bulletin that crooks have been exploiting a vulnerability that allows to execute malicious code using booby-trapped USB. The vulnerability affects all supported versions of Windows OS as […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2015
VBE files on the rise in Brazil leading to Financial Fraud

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab recently observed a big wave of malicious VBE files targeting Brazilian users to distribute Financial Trojan. Recently security experts have seen old tricks rising from the dead (like for example word/excel macros attachment in e-mails) and malicious VBE files are being spread via email targeting Brazilian users. These VBE files […]