Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2016
Trend Micro discovered a Business Email Compromise Campaign leveraging on the Olympic Vision keylogger that targets Middle East and Asia Pacific Companies. A new malware-based campaign is targeting key employees from companies in the US, Middle East and Asia. The attackers are using malware in a classic business email compromise (BEC) attack in order to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2016
According to the experts at Heimdal Security firm, the ransomware Teslacrypt 4 arrived and it is infecting systems in the wild. According to the experts at Heimdal Security, the fourth version of the infamous Teslacrypt ransomware has just been launched. Teslacrypt  4 implements new functionalities and is more stable of previous versions, stability, it also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2016
Malware researchers at the Dr Web firm have found an Android malware named Gmobi specifically designed to spread as a software development kit (SDK). Malware researchers at security firm Dr.Web have detected a new strain of malware that was specifically designed to spread as a software development kit (SDK) used by software developers and mobile device […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2016
From August 2015 to February 2016 Buhtrap group managed to conduct 13 successful attacks against Russian banks for a total amount of $25.7 mln. Since August of 2015, the Buhtrap group has conducted 13 successful attacks against financial institutions stealing more than â˝1.86 billion RUB ($27.4M USD). In April 2015, ESET discovered a malware campaign dubbed Operation Buhtrap, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2016
AceDeceiver is the first iOS malware that abuses certain design flaws in Appleâs FairPlay DRM to install malicious apps on iOS devices even non-jailbroken. Hackers are exploiting a flaw affecting the Apple digital rights management technology (DRM) to install malicious apps on every iOS device, even non-jailbroken ones. Last month, security experts at Palo Alto Networks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2016
The new strain of educational ransomware EDA2 is infecting systems in the wild, but experts discovered that it is quite easy to neutralize. Do you remember the EDA2 ransomware? It is one of the educational ransomware developed by the security expert Utku Sen, now a new variant of the EDA2 educational ransomware appeared in the wild and the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2016
Security experts from various firms have discovered a malvertising campaign that has been placing malicious ads on very popular websites like BBC and NYT. As the title says, a number of popular websites, including The New York Times, BBC, The Hill, Newsweek, AOL, MSN, and several others, were victims of a malvertising campaign. The attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2016
Security expert published an interesting analysis of malware targeting the Steam gaming platform and evolution of threats through the last few years. It is emergency, malware targeting the Steam accounts are increasing as never before over the last months. The popular gaming platform is a privileged target for cyber criminals, Steam is owned by Valve and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2016
After the source code of the Android banking Trojan GM Bot was leaked online, the new version GM Bot v2 was offered for sale. The availability of the source code of a malware in the criminal underground represents a great opportunity for crooks that can customize the threat allowing its evolution in an unpredictable way. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2016
Hacking mechanic’s workshop to infect cars, this is the concept behind a new attack technique devised by the hacker Craig Smith. It might seem far-fetched, it looks like the hacker Craig Smith was able to design a malicious code that could infect computers used in the mechanic’s workworkshop, and these machines can later start infecting […]
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