Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2017
Crooks are spreading the FormBook malware to target aerospace firms, defense contractors and some manufacturing organizations in the US and South Korea. According to researchers at FireEye, FormBook was spotted in several high-volume distribution campaigns targeting aim at Aerospace, Defense Contractor, and Manufacturing industries. The phishing emails that targeted US entities contain PDF, DOC or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2017
Security experts from Proofpoint have uncovered a malvertising actor named KovCoreG group that is spreading the Kovter malware via fake browser and Flash updates. Security researchers from Proofpoint have uncovered a malvertising group dubbed KovCoreG that is spreading the Kovter malware via fake browser and Flash updates. The Kovter malware is used in Ad fraud campaigns, victims were infected by simply clicking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2017
Russian hackers allegedly exploited Kaspersky AV to hack into NSA contractor and steal the NSA exploit code. It complicates Kaspersky’s position. Anonymous sources have claimed Russian intelligence extracted NSA exploits from a US government contractor’s home PC using Kaspersky Lab software. Sources told the Wall Street Journal that a malicious code allowed cyber spies to exfiltrate classified code, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2017
Security researchers with Trend Micro discovered a backdoor dubbed SYSCON that uses an FTP server for command and control (C&C) purposes. The SYSCON backdoor is spreading through tainted documents that refer North Korea and target individuals connected to the Red Cross and the World Health Organization. The use of an FTP server as C&C is uncommon for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2017
The CSE CybSec Z-Lab Malware Lab analyzed the Hospitality malware used by the Russian APT28 group to target hotels in several European countries. The Russian hacker group APT28, also known as Sofacy or Fancy Bear, is believed to be behind a series of attacks in last July against travelers staying in hotels in Europe and Middle […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2017
Researchers from security firm Intezer speculate that the attack was powered by nation-state actor, likely the Chinese APT17 group. Security experts continue to investigate the recent attack against the supply chain of the popular software CCleaner. The hackers first compromised in July a CCleaner server, then exploited it to deliver a backdoored version of the 32-bit CCleaner […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2017
Experts from Sucuri discovered crooks are spreading a fake WordPress plugin dubbed X-WP-SPAM-SHIELD-PRO containing a backdoor. A fake WordPress plugin dubbed X-WP-SPAM-SHIELD-PRO containing a backdoor was spread by crooks abusing the popularity of WP-SpamShield Anti-Spam, a WordPress antispam tool. The WP-SpamShield Anti-Spam plugin has over 100,000 installs for this reason attackers decided to abuse it. Researchers with Sucuri that discovered that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2017
The popular security expert Marco Ramilli shared the analysis of a cryptoworm having significant capabilities, enjoy the report! Introduction. Today I want to share a nice Malware analysis having an interesting flow. The “interesting” adjective comes from the abilities the given sample owns. Capabilities of exploiting, hard obfuscations and usage of advanced techniques to steal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2017
Security experts at Trend Micro have recently spotted a new strain of Android malware, dubbed ZNIU, that exploits the Dirty COW Linux kernel vulnerability. The Dirty COW vulnerability was discovered by the security expert Phil Oester in October 2016, it could be exploited by a local attacker to escalate privileges. The name ‘Dirty COW’ is due to the fact that it’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2017
The RedBoot ransomware encrypts files on the infected computer, replaces the Master Boot Record and then modifies the partition table. Malware Blocker researcher discovered a new bootlocker ransomware, dubbed RedBoot, that encrypts files on the infected computer, replaces the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the system drive and then modifies the partition table. The experts noticed that […]
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