Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2017
Researchers at antivirus firm ESET have discovered a new strain of malware, dubbed Industroyer, that appears to have been designed to target power grids. The experts published a detailed analysis of the malware, they speculated the malicious code has been involved in the December 2016 attack on an electrical substation in Ukraine. “Win32/Industroyer is a sophisticated piece […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2017
Malware researchers at security firm Fortinet have spotted MacRansom, it is the first Mac ransomware offered as a RaaS Service. Malware researchers at security firm Fortinet have spotted a new strain of ransomware dubbed MacRansom that targets Mac machines. The malware is available with Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model through a hidden service in the TOR network. Experts believe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2017
France’s cyber-crime investigation unit OCLCTIC seized one server running two Tor Relays Investigating the WannaCry attack. A few days after the massive WannaCry attack the French authorities seized a server running two Tor relays in connection to the ransomware campaign, both relays were also working as Tor entry guard nodes, key components of Tor routing when […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2017
Experts at Trend Micro observed a spam campaign leveraging the PowerPoint ‘Mouseover’ attack to deliver the Gootkit banking Trojan. Earlier this week, the security expert Ruben Daniel Dodge published an interesting post on a new technique to deliver malware through PowerPoint files leveraging on mouseover events. Now experts at Trend Micro revealed details of a spam campaign they detected in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2017
Thousands of IP cameras have been hijacked by the Persirai IoT botnet that targets more than 1,000 IP camera models, but it isn’t the only one. Thousands of IP cameras have been hijacked by the Persirai IoT botnet that targets more than 1,000 IP camera models. Early May, the researchers at Trend Micro discovered a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2017
Security researchers at Dr. Web discovered two new Linux Malware, one of them mines for cryptocurrency using Raspberry Pi Devices. Malware researchers at the Russian antivirus maker Dr.Web have discovered a new Linux trojan, tracked as Kinux.MulDrop.14, that is infecting Raspberry Pi devices with the purpose of mining cryptocurrency. According to the Russian antivirus maker Dr.Web, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2017
A malicious code used by Turla APT in a recent campaign leverages comments posted to Instagram to obtain the address of the command and control servers. Malware researchers at security firm ESET have spotted a new piece of malware used by Turla APT in cyber attacks. The malicious code leverages comments posted to Instagram to obtain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2017
Experts killed tens of thousands of subdomains used by crooks to host the RIG Exploit Kit that were set up with a domain shadowing campaign. GoDaddy and RSA Security, with the support of other security companies and researchers, have shut down tens of thousands of illegally established subdomains used by crooks to host the RIG Exploit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2017
Security experts at IBM noticed that hundreds to thousands of Active Directory users were locked out of their company’s domain by the QakBot Banking malware Malware researchers at IBM noticed that hundreds to thousands of Active Directory users were locked out of their organization’s domain, the incident is caused by the Qbot banking malware. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2017
Security researchers linked Jaff ransomware campaigns to the backend infrastructure used by operators behind a black market. Security researchers at Heimdal Security who are investigating a new strain of Jaff ransomware discovered that the malware is sharing the backend infrastructure with a black market offering for sale stolen card data and account information. The black […]
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