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Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2016

Buhtrap group stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian banks

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 ₽1.86 billion RUB ($27.4M USD). In April 2015, ESET discovered a malware campaign dubbed Operation Buhtrap, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2016

How to install the AceDeceiver malware onto any iOS Device

AceDeceiver is the first iOS malware that abuses certain design flaws in Apple’s 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

EDA2, derived from the educational ransomware, is easy to break

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

Several Top websites as BBC, New York Times AOL, MSN and others victims of malvertising

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

Malware targeting Steam accounts, a growing business

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

The GM Bot v2 released after source leak, it is more expensive of v2

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

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2016

A new massive spam campaign is spreading Locky ransomware downloaders

Experts at Trustwave observed a new massive spam campaign that was sending a JavaScript attachment that downloads Locky ransomware. Ransomware continues to be among most insidious threats in this first part of the year, security researcher have recently observed a spike in the number of Locky ransomware infections. The experts from Trustwave security firm highlighted the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2016

Triada Trojan the most sophisticated mobile malware seen to date

Kaspersky Lab recently spotted a new Android malware dubbed Triads Trojan, which they say is the most advanced mobile malware seen to date. Malware researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new strain of malware, dubbed Triada (Backdoor.AndroidOS.Triada), targeting Android devices, which they consider the most advanced mobile threat seen to date. The range of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2016

Brazilian underground is the first in spreading cross-platform malware

Coder in the Brazilian Cyber Criminal underground are Pioneering Cross-platform malware relying on Java archive (JAR) Files. Recently security experts at PaloAlto Networks uncovered a new family of ransomware dubbed KeRanger that targets Mac OS X users, a circumstance that demonstrates that every OS is potentially at risk. Now researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered new families […]

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Buhtrap group stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian banks

How to install the AceDeceiver malware onto any iOS Device

EDA2, derived from the educational ransomware, is easy to break

Several Top websites as BBC, New York Times AOL, MSN and others victims of malvertising

Malware targeting Steam accounts, a growing business

The GM Bot v2 released after source leak, it is more expensive of v2

Hacking mechanic’s workshop to infect cars

A new massive spam campaign is spreading Locky ransomware downloaders

Triada Trojan the most sophisticated mobile malware seen to date

Brazilian underground is the first in spreading cross-platform malware

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