Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2017
Malware researchers at the security firm Securify have published a detailed analysis of the Marcher Android banking Trojan. Security experts at the Securify have published a detailed analysis of the Marcher Android banking Trojan, a threat that has been around since late 2013. First variants of the malware were developed to trick users into handing over their payment card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2017
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks spotted a campaign leveraging Microsoft Office loader using malicious macros to drop multiple malware families. The researchers analyzed more than 650 unique samples of this specific loader since early December 2016, accounting for 12,000 phishing email targeting numerous industries. Most affected industries are High Tech, Professional and Legal Services, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2017
Crooks exploiting Word documents laced with malicious macros to compromise Apple Mac systems exactly in the same way they do with Microsoft machines. It’s amazing the number of Apple Mac users that tell me their systems are immune from malware. This false sense of security is very dangerous and I believe it is important to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2017
The infamous Kelihos botnet climbed to the top position, while the Conficker worm dropped to fourth on the chart of malware. Which are the most active malware in the wild? According to a research conducted by CheckPoint Security, a malware landscape was characterized by some interesting changed in this first part of 2017. The Kelihos botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2017
CRYSIS Ransomware attacks leveraging brute force via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) are still ongoing, mostly targeting US firms in the healthcare. Do you remember the CRYSIS ransomware? It is a ransomware that appeared in the threat landscape last year, now researchers at Trend Micro discovered the CRYSIS ransomware is being distributed via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) brute force […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2017
ENISA has issued the annual ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2016, a document that synthesizes the emerging trends in cyber security The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is an EU Agency composed of security experts that work with these states, public organizations and private groups to develop advice and recommendations on good practice […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2017
More than a hundred banks and financial institutions in 40 countries have been infected with a sophisticated fileless malware that is very hard to detect. Hundreds of banks and financial institutions across the world may have been infected with a sophisticated fileless malware that is hard to detect. The threat was discovered by the experts at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2017
Researchers at the antivirus firm Dr.Web discovered a new strain of the Mirai bot, a Windows variant, targeting more ports. Security experts at the antivirus firm Dr.Web discovered a new strain of the Mirai bot targeting more ports, and it is a Windows version of the popular IoT malware. The Windows version of the Mirai bot […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2017
An Iranian espionage group has been using an unsophisticated strain of malware, dubbed MacDownloader, to steal credentials and other data from Mac users. A cyber espionage group linked to the Iranian Government has been using an unsophisticated strain of malware, dubbed MacDownloader, to steal credentials and other data from Mac computers. The researchers Claudio Guarnieri and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2017
PhishMe security researchers discovered that the Locky and Sage ransomware were recently observed being distributed by the same delivery infrastructure. It’s a common habit of cyber criminals to share delivery infrastructure to maximize the use of their resource and minimize the cost, Recently the Locky ransomware was observed being distributed through the delivery infrastructure used […]
