Malware

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2013
i2Ninja – A new financial malware being sold on Russian underground

Trusteer researchers have uncovered a sneaky piece of financial malware, known as i2Ninja, being sold on a Russian cyber crime forum. A new financial malware dubbed i2Ninja menaces banking, despite it has yet to be discovered in the wild, researchers at the IBM company Trusteer have found a sneaky piece of the malicious code on […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2013
Cryptolocker Ransomware – 10M UK Users targeted.Basic countermeasures

Cryptolocker is considered one of most insidious threat for Internet users, a recent spam campaign targeted 10M UK Users, let’s learn how fight it Recently the UK’s National Crime Agency has issued an alert on a large spam campaign based on CryptoLocker ransomware that is targeting more than 10 million UK based email users. CryptoLocker […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2013
Energy industry warned over threat of cyberattacks, alarm raised by UAE

The energy industry continues to be a privileged target for cyber attacks of hacktivists, state-sponsored hackers and cybercriminals. The alarm from UAE Oil and gas companies are considerable privileged targets of cyber attacks, cybercriminals, state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists daily menace security of infrastructure in the energy industry. The number of attacks worldwide against Oil and […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2013
Linux backdoor Fokirtor implements covert communication protocol

In May sophisticated attackers breached a large Internet hosting provider and gained access to internal administrative systems using a singular Linux backdoor. Symantec security researchers have discovered a Linux backdoor, dubbed Fokirtor, that implements a covert communication protocol to hide its presence. The experts revealed that the malicious code was used to compromise a large […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2013
Discovered Open URL Redirection flaw in Facebook

Researcher Dan Melamed recently discovered an open url redirection flaw in Facebook that allowed to have a facebook.com link redirect to any website. A Facebook Open URL Redirection vulnerability is the last discovery of security expert Dan Melamed that reported it in a recent post. Dan is an old acquaintance of Security Affairs, he revealed […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2013
Also Cracked_com compromised to serve malware

Barracuda Labs researches discovered that the popular humor website Cracked_com was compromised used by attackers to serve malware. Cracked_com, the popular humor website, was compromised and used to serve malware that infected its visitors during the weekend and according to Barracuda Labs research the alarm could be not considered closed. The attackers used the classic […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2013
TrendLabs Q3 Security Roundup on illegal activities

TrendLabs has just published the third quarterly report, titled The Invisible Web Unmasked, on the evolution of cybercrime observed in recent months. TrendLabs have published an interesting report titled titled “The Invisible Web Unmasked” to provide a picture of cybercrime evolution observed in recent months. The takedown of the virtual currency Liberty Reserve, the seizure […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2013
GCHQ used fake LinkedIn and Slashdot to hack GRX providers and OPEC

The GCHQ (British Government Communications Headquarters) used fake LinkedIn and Slashdot to hack Belgacom, OPEC & others GRX providers. According to the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel the British signals intelligence spy agency has again adopted a “quantum insert” technique to target employees of two companies that are GRX (Global Roaming Exchange) providers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2013
Brazilian banking threatened by a malware embedded inside RTF file

The clients of the Brazilian financial institutions have been hit by a banking trojan embedded in RTF file and spread through a spam campaign. The banking is one of the most targeted sector by cybercrime that exploit always new vector to infect a customer’s machine of the clients of banks. I decided to write this […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2013
FireEye has identified a new IE zero-day exploit

FireEye Labs has identified a new IE zero-day exploit used for a watering hole attack in the US. As usual it is crucial to track and mitigate so dangerous threats in time to avoid serious problems. FireEye Labs has detected a new series of attacks based on the exploit of a new IE zero-day vulnerability […]