Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2015
Researchers spotted a massive ransomware campaign in which the threat actors developed a new intriguing evasion detection technique. A new and massive ransomware operation dubbed “Operation Kofer” was discovered by a team of Cybereason Labs researchers. This campaign generates new variants of the same malware in order to evade detection and becoming APT-grade in their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2015
Security experts confirmed that Adobe Flash vulnerability revealed in the recent attack against the Hacking Team is being used in the wild. Every IT security website is publishing information related to the recent hack of the Hacking Team and consequent exfiltration of more than 400 GB of sensitive data. The most scaring scenario is already […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2015
Following the clamorous Hacking Team hack the company asked all its customers to shut down all the operations and don’t use its solutions in this phase. Hacking Team has been hacked and its social media account hijacked, the news is shocking the IT security industry because privacy advocated have always accused the company to sell […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2015
Researchers at MalwareMustDie group have discovered a KINS Malware builder leaked online, it is easy to predict a rapid diffusion of the banking trojan. Security experts at the MalwareMustDie revealed that the source code of the popular KINS malware was leaked online. Early 2013, experts at RSA discovered traces the banking trojan named KINS by analyzing the offer for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. US Healthcare companies are the most targeted by Stegoloader Popular travel websites warn Customers of Phishing scam Ransomware slinging exploit kit targets Flash remote code execution Experts found Government […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2015
Trend Micro has identified Lordfenix, a student that created more than 100 different banking Trojans and other malicious tools, since April 2013. Security experts at Trend Micro have identified a 20-year-old Brazilian student which has developed and distributed more than 100 Banking malware. The young cyber criminal, which used the pseudonym of ‘Lordfenix’, ‘Hacker’s Son’ and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2015
Security researcher discovered a strain of the Kovter trojan that has been updating Flash Player and Internet Explorer to prevent further infections. The French security expert Kafeine have discovered a new strain of the Kovter malware noticing that the instance of the malicious code he was analyzing was attempting to download the latest version of the Flash […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2015
Every 18 seconds a new mobile Android malware is discovered in the wild as reported in the G DATA Malware Report Mobile for Q1 2015. Security firm GDATA has published a report on mobile malware detected in the first quarter of 2015. The researchers discovered 440,267 new strains of Android malware, a new malware strain for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2015
Researchers at ESET analyzed the Dino malware confirming that the sophisticated espionage platform belongs to the arsenal of the Animal Farm APT. Security experts at ESET have analyzed Dino, a sophisticated platform used by the Animal Farm ATP group. Earlier this year, security researchers discovered two powerful malware, dubbed Babar and Casper, likely developed by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2015
Researchers at the Fujitsu Security Operations Center spotted a strain of Dyre being served exploiting hundreds of compromised home routers. According to the popular security expert Brian Krebs, criminals are exploiting a new technique to spread the Dyre banking malware, they are leveraging hacked wireless routers. Dyre is usually downloaded by the malicious trojan Upatre, it […]
