Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2016
InfoArmor has discovered the RAUM tool in criminal forums, it is a special tool to distribute malware by packaging it with popular torrent files. It is not a novelty, torrent files are a privileged channel for malware diffusion, according to a study conducted by researchers at Digital Citizens Alliance and RiskIQ, almost one-third of the 800 torrent sites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2016
The new variant of the popular iSpy keylogger (version 3.x) was available in the criminal underground with sophisticated features. Security researchers at Zscaler warn of a new sophisticated commercial keylogger dubbed iSpy. The malware is a perfect surveillance tool, it was developed to capture victim’s keystroke and screenshots, access webcam, steal user data and license keys […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2016
Security firm Certego has been detecting multiple viral spam campaigns leveraging a new malware evasion technique it called BadEpilogue. Starting from May 2016, Certego Threat Intelligence platform has been detecting multiple viral spam campaigns using a new evasion technique. These attacks are able to hide malicious attachments inside a specific area of the MIME/Multipart structure and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2016
Google has removed from the Google Play store four apps trojanized with the Overseer malware to target overseas travelers seeking embassy information. Google has removed from the official Google Play store four trojanized apps that targeted overseas travelers seeking embassy information and news for specific European countries. Three apps were named “Embassy”, “European News”, “Russian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2016
Security experts from the cyber threat intelligence firm Blueliv have published a report on the banking Trojan Vawtrak v2 its criminal ecosystem. Security experts from the cyber threat intelligence firm Blueliv have conducted a technical investigation on the banking Trojan Vawtrak v2 and activities of the cybercriminal groups behind the threat. Vawtrak is a threat that has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2016
Two security researchers have developed an undetectable PLC rootkit that will present at the upcoming Black Hat Europe 2016. The energy industry is under unceasing attack, cyber criminals, and state-sponsored hackers continue to target the systems of the companies in the sector. The Stuxnet case has demonstrated to the IT community the danger of cyber attacks, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2016
A Brazilian Infosec research group, Morphus Labs, just discovered a new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) Ransomware this week, dubbed Mamba. Mamba, as they named it, uses a disk-level encryption strategy instead of the conventional file-based one. This may be just the beginning of a new era for the Ransomware. In this article, Renato Marinho (@renato_marinho), […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2016
Vxers developed a new version of GovRAT, called GovRAT, that has been used to target government and many other organizations in the US. GovRAT is an old cyberespionage tool, it has been in the wild since 2014 and it was used by various threat actors across the years. Security experts from the threat intelligence company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2016
Surveillance is a profitable business, Motherboard has published a never-before-seen 10-minute video showing a live demo of a surveillance software. Recently, the iPhone hack carried out with the NSO Group‘s Pegasus raised the debate about the use of surveillance software. Who uses them? How? Are we able to defend our machines from a so invasive surveillance? NSO Group is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2016
Experts from Sophos discovered Mal/Miner-C, a malware designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. Malware researchers from security firm Sophos have analyzed a new strain of malware detected as Mal/Miner-C that was designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. The experts discovered that the new […]
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