Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2015
Security researcher is investigating in a new strain of Facebook Trojan that in just two days has already infected 1110,000 Facebook users. Social networks represent a privileged attack vector for malware-based attacks, a recent investigation conducted by by the security researcher Mohammad Faghani revealed the existence of a Trojan is circulating among Facebook users. According to the researcher, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2015
Researchers at SentinelOne have discovered a strain of the Zeus malware that includes a very sophisticated control panel and evasion techniques. Malware researchers at SentinelOne have spotted a new Zeus variant that was used to target major Canadian banks, including the National Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal and the Royal Bank of Canada. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2015
The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) research team observed the ZeroAccess botnet resumes again with click-fraud activity. Law enforcement has destroyed the ZeroAccess botnet, also known as Sirefef, in December 2013 by a joint effort of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, FBI, Europol and industry partners. The ZeroAccess botnet is considered one of most insidious malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2015
Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a spam campaign that tricks antispam filters by relying on macros in Empty Word Documents. Security experts at BitDefender observed a new tactic adopted by spammers that rely on emails with an empty Word document in the attachment to bypass anti-spam filters. The social engineering strategy adopted by spammers to lure victims into […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2015
Experts at Kaspersky Lab compared the Regin module 50251 and the “Qwerty” keylogger discovering that they share part of the source code and functionality. Malware researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a link between the Regin malware platform and the attack platform cited in the last collection of documents published by Edward Snowden to Der Spiegel magazine. The experts have discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2015
Scammers are earning advertising revenue by spreading click-fraud malware Tubrosa, which sends compromised computers to their YouTube videos. A new Click-fraud malware campaign aimed at earning money by using the victim’s machine to view YouTube videos and benefits from ads embedded in them. The malicious campaign, discovered by experts at Symantec, has targeted users around the world […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2015
The NSA has been targeting North Korea and its impenetrable system for a long time. Thanks to the new revelations that have been brought to light, the NSA has aimed to equip the USA for possible digital wars in the near future, using surveillance and digital weapons to enhance its existing power. Though North Korea […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2015
The French security expert Kafeine has discovered an unpatched vulnerability (0day) in Flash Player is being exploited by Angler Exploit Kit. The Angler exploit kit is one of the most popular crimeware kit and according to the French security researcher Kafeine it was enriched with a fresh Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability. Kafeine has discovered a new variant of the Angler […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2015
Hacks in Taiwan security conference has uncovered a malware-based attack involving several online games to spread the PlugX RAT. Experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new malicious campaign based on the popular PlugX RAT, the threat actor behind the attack has bundled the malware with League of Legends (LoL) and Path of Exile (PoE) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2015
The Independent institute AV-Test issued an analysis that recorded 143 Million new malware samples in 2014 and 12 million new variants per month. The German independent IT security institute AV-Test has published an interesting statistic on the current diffusion of malicious code, the data reveal that experts noticed 12 million new variants per month. AV-Test provides […]
