Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2018
Fortinet discovered PyRoMineIoT, a new strain of crypto-currency miner that exploits the NSA-linked EternalRomance exploit to spread. PyRoMineIoT is a new strain of crypto-currency miner that exploits the NSA-linked EternalRomance remote code execution exploit to spread, the malware also abuses infected machines to scan for vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices. PyRoMineIoT is quite similar to another crypto-currency miner dubbed PyRoMine that was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2018
Malware researchers from ESET have spotted a new sophisticated piece of spyware, tracked as InvisiMole, used in targeted attacks in Russia and Ukraine in the last five years. Experts still haven’t attributed the malware to any threat actor, InvisiMole could be a nation-state malware developed for cyber espionage purpose or the result of a development […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2018
Crooks attempted to hack the SWIFT system at the Banco de Chile and used a disk-wiping malware as a diversion strategy. The intent of the attackers was to sabotage hundreds of computers at the Banco de Chile while they were attempting to breach the real target, the bank’s SWIFT money transferring system. Causing a broad outage, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2018
In May, experts at Trend Micro observed a new sample of KillDisk in Latin America, the malware infected the systems of a bank. A new piece of the KillDisk wiper was observed spotted earlier this year targeting financial organizations in Latin America, Trend Micro reports. The destructive malware was involved in the attacks against Ukraine’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2018
The security expert and malware researcher Marco Ramilli published a detailed analysis on a new strain of malware dubbed DMOSK that targets Italian firms, Today I’d like to share another interesting analysis made by my colleagues and I. It would be a nice and interesting analysis since it targeted many Italian and European companies. Fortunately, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2018
Sofacy APT group (APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium) continues to operate and thanks to rapid and continuously changes of tactics the hackers are able to remain under the radar. According to experts from Palo Alto Networks, the hackers also used new tools in recent attacks, recently the APT group has shifted focus in their interest, from NATO member […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2018
The VPNFilter botnet now targeting new devices from other vendors, including ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE. The VPNFilter botnet is worse than initially thought, according to a new report published by Cisco Talos Intelligence group, the malicious code is now targeting ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE “First, we have determined that additional devices are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2018
Crooks have infected over 40,000 web servers, modems, and other IoT devices with the Prowli malware as part of a cryptocurrency mining campaign and to redirect victims to malicious sites. The Prowli malware was spotted by researchers at GuardiCore, attackers composed the huge botnet by exploiting known vulnerabilities and brute-force attacks. This campaign, dubbed Operation Prowli, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2018
Security expert Ankit Anubhav discovered a Command and Control server for the Owari botnet protected with weak credentials. An IoT botnet has been commandeered by white hats after its controllers used a weak username and password combination for its command-and-control server. Security expert Ankit Anubhav from Newsky Security discovered an IoT botnet that was controlled by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2018
The author of the Sigrun Ransomware is providing the decryption key to Russian victims for free, others have to pay a ransom of $2,500 worth of Bitcoin or Dash for the victims. We have reported several cases where Russian malware authors avoid infecting computers in their country, but the case we are going to discuss is […]
