Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2015
Mozilla released the version 39.0.3 Firefox to patch a critical 0-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. AÂ zero-day vulnerability in Mozilla FireFox was reported on Wednesday to the company. A user noticed that an ad displayed on a Russian news website was serving an a malicious code. The exploit discovered by the user […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2015
A security researcher developed an improved version of the Thunderstrike rootkit that uses Thunderbolt accessories to infect the Mac firmware. Earlier this year, security expert Trammell Hudson presented a proof-of-concept firmware called Thunderstrike. Thunderstrike is a hacking technique to infect Appleâs Mac PCs with EFI Bootkit through the Thunderbolt port. The expert demonstrated how to compromise […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2015
The CTB-Locker Ransomware is Back with a Vengeance, the security experts noticed that bad actors Leveraging the Release of Windows 10 as an Attack Vector. A false sense of hope that the presence, or rather the active spread, of crypto-ransomware in-the-wild has begun to slowly die out has been quickly diminished thanks to the group behind the CTB-Locker ransomware. While […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2015
Version 3.0 of the RIG exploit kit has been released with new significant improvement. It has already infected more than 1.3 million PC worldwide. Early 2015, part of the source code for the 2.0 version of the RIG exploit kit was leaked online due to a dispute between the main developer and a reseller. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 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. HORNET, the High-Speed Tor-Like encrypted anonymous network Anonymousâs team GhostSec thwarts Isis terror plots Drone Firing Semi-Automatic Handgun, whatâs next? Advertising hijacking made by Invisible rogue mobile apps are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2015
Experts at Trend Micro discovered that cyber criminals are exploiting the popular Angler Exploit kit to find and infect PoS systems. The popular Angler Exploit kit is used by criminal crews to find and infect PoS systems, this is the last disconcerting discovery made by the experts at Trend Micro. The security researcher Anthony Joe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2015
Security Firm Cyphort Labs reported that 10 million users may have been infected in ten days by a malvertising and exploit kit campaign. Nick Bilogorskiy, a security researcher at Cyphort  revealed that 10 million users may have been infected in ten days due to a malvertising and exploit kit campaign. According to the expert threat actors […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2015
Mobile Malware is growing and crooks are targeting the advertising industry to redirect users to ad pages in a sort of Advertising hijacking. Mobile Malware is growing and crooks are targeting the advertising industry with malicious codes able to redirect users to ad pages, this practice is known as Advertising hijacking. These “rogue mobile apps” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2015
FireEye published a report on the operations of a group of 419 scammers located in Nigeria, which is using malware as a component of their fraud scams. Security firm FireEye has published a new report on a new group of 419 scammers that is using keyloggers and other malware to implement its fraud scheme. According to the investigators, the fraudsters diverted potentially millions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2015
Android devices, from Ice Cream version to Jelly Bean were p0wned with RCSAndroid RAT, one of the most professionally developed and sophisticated malware. Since the leak of Hacking Team hack, every day in security area have been inundated with news about some vulnerability, exploit, etc. etc., and still more news are yet to come out. […]
