Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2014
USBdriveby is a device designed to quickly and covertly install a backdoor and override DNS settings on an unlocked machine via USB. The security experts Samy Kamkar (@SamyKamkar) has proposed a very interesting way to compromise an unlocked computer and deploy a backdoor on it simply by using a pre-programmed Teensy microcontroller. The cheap ($20) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2014
Security experts at Trend Micro detected a new banking trojan dubbed TSPY_BANKER.YYSI which uses Pinterest as command and control system. According to researchers at Trend Micro once again, banks in South Korea are targeted by a new financial malware designed to target their customers. The attackers have targeted customers of the principal financial institutions of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2014
Google blacklisted over 11000 domains that were infected with this SoakSoak malware which redirect user traffic and download malicious payloads on targets. WordPress is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) with more than 70 million websites on the Internet. For this reason, it is under continuous attack by threat actors that try to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2014
Security experts at Zscaler discovered a pirated version of the Assassin Creed mobile app for Android that was used to spread a malware. Security experts at Zscaler discovered a trojanized and pirated version of the popular Assassin Creed application for Android platform. Assassin Creed is one of the most popular paid video games, available for almost […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2014
Bloomberg revealed that Iranian hackers have used Visual Basic malware to wipe out data of corporate systems at Las Vegas Sands Corp. On February 2014 the Casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp suffered a major cyber attack, but only now the news was publicly disclosed by the Bloomberg Businessweek. The attack has many similarities with the recent […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2014
The ICS-CERT revealed that the BlackEnergy malware targeted SCADA HMI systems may be exploiting a recently patched flaw in the Siemens SIMATIC WinCC. Security experts at the Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) Â reported that the BlackEnergy malware was used by threat actors in the wild to compromise HMI (human-machine interface) systems. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2014
Appleâs Mac OS X is no longer immune to malware and bugs says Kaspersky Security Lab.A survey of 2014 reveals that more malware attacks targeted Mac. For years, Mac OS X has been flaunted as the most immune OS to malwares and bugs. Well, the reign of Mac might end in 2014, with usersâ on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2014
Kaspersky Lab suspects that the bad actor who is managing a new campaign dubbed CloudAtlas is the same that run the Operation Red October two years ago. Red October is the name of a cyber espionage campaign discovered by security experts at Kaspersky Lab in late 2012 and disclosed in January 2013. The threat actors behind the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2014
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected a strain of Destover Malware that has been digitally signed with the certificates stolen during Sony attack. Security experts have detected a new strain of the Destover malware that was used in the recent Sony Pictures Entertainment breaches characterized by a singular feature, the sample is signed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2014
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected the first strain of Turla malware that was designed to infect Linux system and so called Penquin Turla. Security Experts at Kaspersky have discovered a new variant of Turla malware which was designed to hit Linux systems and for this reason, it was called the Penquin Turla. The investigation […]
