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Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2015

CryptoWall 4.0 Released with a New Look and Several New Features

The fourth member of the CryptoWall family of ransomware, CryptoWall 4.0, has just been released, complete with new features and a brand new look. We recently reported that CryptoWall 3.0 has allegedly caused over $325 million in annual damages. CryptoWall first emerged in April 2014. Its first major upgrade was dubbed CryptoWall 2.0, and first emerged in October […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2015

Chimera, a new strain of ransomware in the wild

According to a German website, there is a new strain of ransomware dubbed Chimera that also threatens to publish personal data on the Internet. A new strain of ransomware is targeting German companies, it is named Chimera and this time crooks don’t limit their extortion scheme to the file encrypting, they are also threatening victims […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2015

More than 100 Million Android users at risk due to the Baidu Moplus SDK

A vulnerability known as Wormhole affects the Baidu Moplus SDK and potentially exposes more than 100 Million users to cyber attacks. The Moplus software development kit (SDK) distributed by the Chinese Search Engine Baidu includes a functionality that can be exploited to gain access to the user’s device. The backdoor-like feature potentially exposes more than 100 Million Android users to cyber attacks. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2015

Criminals behind CryptoWall 3.0 Made $325 Million

Security researchers of the Cyber Threat Alliance have conducted an investigation into the cybercriminal operations leveraging CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware. Brief Background Ransomware, specifically crypto-ransomware, is a malware classification that encompasses Trojans that enumerate the file system of an infected host, in order to discover and compromise any and every document possible. Crypto-ransomware encrypts the contents of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2015

How CoinVault or Bitcryptor victims could try to recover their files

Victims of CoinVault ransomware can now rely on a new set of encryption keys added to the free CoinVault Ransomware Decryptor tool to recover their files. Every day, dozens of users ask me how to decrypt their data locked by various ransomware such as CoinVault or Bitcryptor? Now I have a good news for them, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2015

European Police Agencies declare war on DroidJack RAT

Authorities in several European countries announced they have coordinated an operation to arrest criminals using the popular DroidJack RAT. Android RATs are becoming very popular in the criminal underground, a recent research conducted by Recorded Future demonstrated that interest in the DroidJack and AndroRAT, especially in the Middle East and Africa. Mobile spyware is widely adopted […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2015

Chikdos cross-platform DDoS botnet hit SQL servers worldwide

Experts at Symantec have discovered a new variant of the Chikdos DDoS-Trojan that is targeting MySQL servers worldwide. There is a malware in the wild that abuses MySQL Servers for DDoS Attacks, the experts named it Chikdos. The threat was detected for the first time by the Polland CERT and according to the experts it has […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2015

Dridex Botnets are still active and effective

The Dridex Banking Trojan has risen again despite the recent operation conducted by law enforcement on a global scale. Spam campaign relying on the Dridex malware continues to threaten banking users across the world despite the operations conducted by law enforcement on a global scale. We left Dridex malware spreading across the Europe, in particular targeting […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2015

Duuzer, a data stealer Trojan targets South Korean organizations

Researchers at Symantec uncovered bad actors that have been using a backdoor Trojan dubbed Duuzer to target organizations in South Korea and elsewhere. According to Symantec, threat actors have been using a data stealer Trojan dubbed Duuzer to target organizations mainly located in South Korea. The bad actors conducted targeted attacks against organizations in the manufacturing […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2015

Germany probes alleged new case of US espionage: Regin malware infected Gov laptop

The German authorities have launched a probe into allegations of a new case of US espionage after they have found a laptop infected by the Regin Spyware. The German authorities have launched a probe into allegations of a new cyber-espionage campaign that is suspected to be linked to the US intelligence. The news was revealed […]

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CryptoWall 4.0 Released with a New Look and Several New Features

Chimera, a new strain of ransomware in the wild

More than 100 Million Android users at risk due to the Baidu Moplus SDK

Criminals behind CryptoWall 3.0 Made $325 Million

How CoinVault or Bitcryptor victims could try to recover their files

European Police Agencies declare war on DroidJack RAT

Chikdos cross-platform DDoS botnet hit SQL servers worldwide

Dridex Botnets are still active and effective

Duuzer, a data stealer Trojan targets South Korean organizations

Germany probes alleged new case of US espionage: Regin malware infected Gov laptop

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