Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2015
The CSIS Security Group has spotted a new version of the notorious Carbanak Trojan in the wild targeting financial organizations in Europe and US. Do you remember the Carbanak gang? In February, researchers from Kaspersky discovered that a multinational gang of hackers dubbed Carbanak that swiped 1 Billion dollars from 100 financial institutions across 30 countries, most of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2015
Malwarebytes has uncovered a new malvertising campaign targeting the Match.com ‘s ad network which has been breached by a malware campaign. Are you a UK single looking for love and passion? Be aware another threat is menacing dating communities, this time the popular dating web site Match.com and its 5.5 million British users suffered a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2015
A new variant of Android ransomware relies on the instant messaging protocol XMPP to establish a communication with C&C servers. According to security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies a new Android ransomware disguised as a video player app implements a method of communication different from any other similar threat. This Android ransomware is different from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2015
Security experts at G-Data security firm have discovered new cases of Chinese Android mobile devices infected by pre-installed malware. Security researchers from G DATA have discovered more than two dozen Android mobile phones from different manufacturers already infected by pre-installed malware. The kits analyzed by the company are commercialized by many manufacturers including Huawei, Lenovo […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2015
The Shifu Banking Trojan is a new sophisticated malware that has been used to target the customers of more than a dozen Japanese banks. Shifu is the name of a new banking trojan that has been around since at least April targeting Japanese banks and a number of European e-banking platforms. “Shifu currently targets 14 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2015
A group of researchers have developed a method dubbed Mass Vetting (MassVet) to find unknown malicious apps in app stores in 10 Seconds. A group of University researchers has created a new method for detecting malicious apps running on an Android devices called MassVet. MassVet doesn’t use the old method of signatures scanning, instead it compares […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2015
Security experts at Sensecy have uncovered ORX-Locker, a Darknet Ransomware-as-a-service platform that could allow everyone to become a cyber criminal. It is becoming even easier to become a cyber-criminal thanks to the model of sale known as malware-as-a-service that offers off-the-shelf malware for rent or sale. Recently malware authors started to offer also Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2015
PaloAlto and with WeipTech have identified 92 samples of a new iOS malware family in the wild dubbed KeyRaider that compromised over 225,000 Apple accounts. Palo Alto networks announced recently that a new iOS malware called KeyRaider allowed crooks to take over more than 225.000 apple accounts on jailbroken iOS devices. KeyRaider allows the attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2015
Corebot is a new data stealer discovered by the experts at IBM Security X-Force while they were analyzing some endpoints protected by their solutions. Corebot is the name of a new data stealer malware discovered by the experts at IBM Security X-Force while they were analyzing some endpoints protected by their product, the Trusteer Apex […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2015
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