Malware

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2014
Mac OS X is no longer immune, reveals Kaspersky’s 2014 Malware countdown

Apple’s 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 users’ on […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2014
Are CloudAtlas and RedOctober campaigns managed by same APT?

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
Stolen Sony certificates used to digitally sign Destover Malware

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
Detected the first samples of Penquin Turla for Linux systems

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2014
Italy is within most targeted countries by Crypto-Ransomware in EMEA Region

Trend Micro has analyzed the diffusion of Crypto-Ransomware in the EMEA Region, such attacks are very effective and Italy is in the Top infected countries. The holiday season is the period of the year in which cybercrime appears more active because it is advantaged by a fervid online activity of the Internet users. This is the period of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2014
The wiper malware that hit Sony Picture was written in Korean

Security experts at AlienVault discovered further elements of the wiper malware used for the attack on Sony Pictures that link it to North Korean hackers. New evidence has emerged from the investigation on the clamorous cyber attack against the Sony Pictures, experts at Alien Vault provided further elements to link the attack to the North Korea. Last […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2014
DeathRing, a new Pre-loaded mobile trojan in the wild

The number of Pre-loaded mobile trojan in the wild is increasing, DeathRing is the last one discovered by the experts at Lookout firm. It’s not first the time that Android handsets come preloaded with malware, but cyber security experts are warning of a worrying increase of the cases. The problem is widespread in Asia and Africa, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2014
TrendMicro analyzed the wiper malware that infected Sony Pictures

TrendLabs has analyzed the Destructive malware mentioned in the FBI warnings recently issued and they have linked it to cyber attack against Sony Pictures. Researchers at TrendLabs announced that they have identified the strain of malware that appears to have been used in the cyber attack against Sony Pictures systems by GOP (Guardians of Peace). The hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2014
Is it possible to attribute the backdoor Regin to the cybercrime?

The popular cyber security expert Raoul Chiesa commented the hypothesis that backdoor Regin is a product of organized cybercrime. Excerpt from a detailed analysis published on the Infosec Institute In this phase it is quite impossible to attribute precisely the development of the Regin malware to a specific category of threat actors. Until now we […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2014
PoS malware d4re|dev1| is also targeting Mass Transit Systems

Security experts at IntelCrawler discovered a strain of PoS malware that is also targeting ticket vending machines and electronic kiosks. IntelCrawler cyber threat intelligence firm has detected a new strain of Point-of-Sale malware called “d4re|dev1|” (read dareldevil), which is used by cyber criminals to infect ticket vending machines and electronic kiosks. The experts discovered new POS malware infecting Mass […]