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Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2015

TrendMicro spotted a 64-Bit variant of NewPosThings PoS malware

Researchers at Trend Micro spotted a 64-bit variant of NewPosThings PoS malware designed to steal payment card and other sensitive data. Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new strain of the NewPosThings point-of-sale (PoS) malware. The new variant of NewPosThings malware is a 64-bit version of NewPosThings, a point-of-sale (PoS) malware discovered by experts at Arbor Networks in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2015

Fake Pirate Bay website exploited to serve banking Trojan to WordPress users

Security experts at MalwareBytes discovered that unaware WordPress users are infected with a banking trojan served by a fake Pirate Bay website. Some WordPress websites are being used to redirect users to a fake Pirate Bay that is being used to make the reader to push malware, says Malwarebytes. WordPress websites were injected with the same iframe during the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2015

Thousands of WordPress sites hacked by exploiting a flaw in RevSlider plugin

Cybercriminals have been leveraging a vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin to redirect the visitors of thousands of websites to exploit kits, a researcher has warned. Security experts at Germany’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-Bund) and Yonathan Klijnsma reveals that at least 3,000 websites have been compromised by attackers exploiting a known vulnerability in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2015

Hotel ANTLabs InnGate Internet Gateways vulnerable against remote exploit

The presence of a vulnerability in the ANTLabs InnGate devices used in hotels and conference centers exposes users to risk of remote exploit. Recently the security firm Cylance has discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2015-0932) affecting the ANTLabs InnGate devices that are popular Internet gateway for visitor-based networks like the one we find in hotels and convention centers. The exploitation […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2015

Crooks are improving sextortion with the use of mobile malware

According to Trend Micro, crooks in Asia are conducting the sextortion practice to the next level, including the used of mobile malware to get huge profits. Trend Micro released a new report to bring to light a criminal activity known as sextortion. “Sextortion is a means of coercing cybercrime victims to perform sexual favors or […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2015

Vawtrak malware uses steganography to hide update files in favicons

A new strain of Vawtrak malware implements capabilities to send and receive data through encrypted favicons distributed over the Tor network. A new powerful variant of the Vawtrak malware, also known as Neverquest or Snifula, appeared in the wild. Vawtrak is considered by malware researchers one of the most dangerous malicious code that is threatening systems worldwide. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2015

New Dridex malware evades detection with AutoClose function

Security experts at Proofpoint have discovered a new phishing campaign that exploits a Dridex variant that evades detection with AutoClose function. Criminal crews behind the Dridex banking malware are very prolific and are improving the popular malicious code. Recently we have discussed about a Dridex variant which was spread through phishing messages with Microsoft Office documents embedding malicious macros. The attackers exploited social engineering technique to lure […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2015

PoSeidon the most sophisticated PoS malware until now

Cisco Security Team has spotted in the wild a new Point-of-Sale malware dubbed PoSeidon that is more sophisticated than previously detected PoS malware. Expert at Cisco have discovered a new Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware dubbed PoSeidon. The experts have discovered many similarities with the popular Zeus Trojan and use sophisticated methods to find card data respect other POS malware like BlackPoS, which was used […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2015

Operation Woolen Goldfish, a hacking campaign in the wild

Security experts at Trend micro uncovered a new hacking campaign dubbed Operation Woolen Goldfish likely run by a threat actor group known as Rocket Kitten. Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign that is targeting a number of European organisations and businesses. The attackers run a spear phishing campaign that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2015

Researchers developed a new powerful BIOS Bootkit that exploits BIOS flaws

Security researchers developed a new BIOS bootkit that exploit recently discovered vulnerabilities. The experts will present their study to the CanSecWest. BIOS bootkits are a reality despite there is little evidence of BIOS implants in the wild. The BIOS bootkits was mentioned when Snowden disclosed the catalog of surveillance tools used by the NSA ANT division, these malicious malware are […]

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TrendMicro spotted a 64-Bit variant of NewPosThings PoS malware

Fake Pirate Bay website exploited to serve banking Trojan to WordPress users

Thousands of WordPress sites hacked by exploiting a flaw in RevSlider plugin

Hotel ANTLabs InnGate Internet Gateways vulnerable against remote exploit

Crooks are improving sextortion with the use of mobile malware

Vawtrak malware uses steganography to hide update files in favicons

New Dridex malware evades detection with AutoClose function

PoSeidon the most sophisticated PoS malware until now

Operation Woolen Goldfish, a hacking campaign in the wild

Researchers developed a new powerful BIOS Bootkit that exploits BIOS flaws

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