Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2015
Security researcher discovered a strain of the Kovter trojan that has been updating  Flash Player and Internet Explorer to prevent further infections. The French security expert Kafeine have discovered a new strain of the Kovter malware noticing that the instance of the malicious code he was analyzing was attempting to download the latest version of the Flash […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2015
Every 18 seconds a new mobile Android malware is discovered in the wild as reported in the G DATA Malware Report Mobile for Q1 2015. Security firm GDATAÂ has published a report on mobile malware detected in the first quarter of 2015. The researchers discovered 440,267 new strains of Android malware, a new malware strain for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2015
Researchers at ESET analyzed the Dino malware confirming that the sophisticated espionage platform belongs to the arsenal of the Animal Farm APT. Security experts at ESET have analyzed Dino, a sophisticated platform used by the Animal Farm ATP group. Earlier this year, security researchers discovered two powerful malware, dubbed Babar and Casper, likely developed by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2015
Researchers at the Fujitsu Security Operations Center spotted a strain of Dyre being served exploiting hundreds of compromised home routers. According to the popular security expert Brian Krebs, criminals are exploiting a new technique to spread the Dyre banking malware, they are leveraging hacked wireless routers. Dyre is usually downloaded by the malicious trojan Upatre, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2015
The French researcher Kafeine confirmed that the author of the Magnitude exploit kit have added the code to exploit the Adobe CVE-2015-3113 flaw. Cyber criminals have added the recently the recently discovered CVE-2015-3113 to the popular Magnitude exploit kit. Last week, Adobe released a security update for the critical Adobe Flash Player vulnerability CVE-2015-3113 that is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Password Recovery Scam â how to hack a Gmail account Signal amplification and brute-force attack for car thieves Electronic Frontier Foundation â WhatsApp ranked as the worst at protecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2015
The authors of the Stegoloader malware are exploiting digital steganography to target companies worldwide, mainly US Healthcare companies. A couple of weeks ago, the security researchers at Dell SecureWorks discovered a new strain of malware dubbed Stegoloader, that exploits steganography as an evasion technique. Once infected the victimâs machine, a specific loader module loads a PNG file that contains […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2015
Security experts at Kaspersky collected evidence that the Winniti APT is moving beyond the gaming industry targeting telecoms and big pharma companies. My most passionate readers, will remember for sure the Winnti group, a Chinese APT discovered by Kaspersky Lab in 2013 that targeted companies in the gaming industry. According to the experts, the Winnti gang has been active […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2015
Experts at Symantec observed a significant upsurge in activity over the past year for the Dyre financial Trojan used to target banking customers worldwide The operators behind the popular Dyre banking trojan appear very active in this period, according to security experts at Symantec they are working hard five-day a week to maintain some 285 command […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2015
Swedish Co-Creator Of Blackshades RAT was sentenced by the US authorities to 57 months in prison. Another success of the law enforcement against cybercrime. A New York federal court sentenced Alex YĂŒcel (a.k.a. “marjinz“), a Swedish man, who is the alleged mastermind behind the BlackShades Remote Access Tool (RAT). BlackShades is a popular RAT in the […]
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