Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2015
Researchers at FireEye spotted a new malicious adware campaign (Kemoge threat) that has infected Android mobile devices in more than 20 countries. Security researchers at Fireeye have uncovered a malicious adware campaign which relies on a threat dubbed âKemogeâ based on the name of its command and control (C&C) domain aps.kemoge.net. The Kemoge malware is packaged with various popular […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2015
The Cisco Talos Group has performed in-depth research on the threat actors behind the Angler Exploit Kit, and even had behind-the-scenes access. The Cisco Talos Group has performed in-depth research on the threat actors behind the Angler Exploit Kit, and even had behind-the-scenes access, allowing statistical information as well as Anglerâs inner-workings to be examined. Note that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2015
Researchers have discovered an advanced malware that can breach organizations by infecting their Outlook Web Application (OWA) mail server. According to the experts at the Cybereason security firm threat actors breached an unnamed organization network and maintained persistence for months via a webmail server. The victim was a midsize public services company based in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2015
Experts at Paloalto Networks discovered a strain of Apple iOS malware dubbed YiSpecter that is able to infect both jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices. The recent XCodeGhost attack suffered by Apple demonstrated that nobody is completely secure from malware-based attacks. Now security researchers at PaloAlto Networks have discovered a new malware dubbed YiSpecter that they sustain is able to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2015
The Independent AV-Test Institute has analyzed 16 Linux security solutions against Windows and Linux threats under Ubuntu. The results are disconcerting. The result of the tests on Linux security solutions demonstrates that many Linux machines are vulnerable to cyber attacks, let’s consider to billions of internet users that daily access Web servers. In many cases, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2015
Security experts at Cisco Talos have discovered a new strain of the Fareit Info stealer that uses a different File hash for each attack to avoid AV Detection Security experts at the Cisco Talos team have detected a new strain of the Fareit malware. Fareit is an info stealer that has been around since 2012, it is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2015
Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a spam campaign spreading a bogus PayPal app to steal German users’ banking credentials. A spam campaign is targeting German Andoird users, the malicious emails impersonate PayPal trying to trick the recipient into downloading a bogus PayPal app update that hides a banking Trojan. “Mobile banking is now used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2015
A new strain of malware identified by Symantec as the Vigilante malware, aka Wifatch, has infected tens of thousands of IoT devices across the world. Who is infecting thousands of IoT devices across the world, and why? A new strain of malware, identified by Symantec as Linux.Wifatch has infected tens of thousands of IoT devices across the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2015
The researchers at Security Intelligence announced that Shifu banking trojan is officially spreading to the UK targeting Banks and Wealth Management Firms. A few weeks ago researchers at Security Intelligence announced the discovery of the sophisticated banking Trojan Shifu, the malicious code has been used to target the customers of more than a dozen Japanese […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2015
The GCAT backdoor is a fully featured backdoor which could be controlled by using Gmail as a Command & Control server with multiple advantages for attackers. Establish a backdoor is one of the main goals for an attacker in order to gain persistence over the targeted machines. There are many hacking tools that allow easily to […]
