Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2013
Security experts at Trend Micro detected a new variant of AutoCAD Malware that leaves victims hackable for further cyber attacks. Malware researchers at Trend Micro spotted AutoCAD Malware codenamed ACM_SHENZ.A. It’s not first time that a malware was specifically designed to steal AutoCAD project, last years security specialists at ESET detected a malicious code dubbed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2013
Security experts at Malwarebytes discovered Potentially Unwanted Programs like Toolbars and Search Agents that installed Bitcoin miners on user’s PC The value of the Bitcoin for a few days has passed the psychological threshold of one thousand dollars, confirming its growth trend, the attention in the virtual currency scheme is at the highest levels and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2013
Iranian report states that Israel and Saudi Arabia are plotting new computer cyber weapon to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program like happened with Stuxnet. Saudi spy agency, Mossad are collaborating in the design of malware worse than Stuxnet. The Fars agency reported that Israel and Saudi Arabia have started a joint collaboration for the development […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2013
FireEye Security Experts discovered Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003 privilege escalation zero-day exploit Security experts at FireEye have discovered a new zero-day, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It’s is the eleventh vulnerability discovered by FireEye this year, really a great job for the researchers of the young company. The last zero-day flaw is coded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2013
Symantec security experts have discovered a new Linux worm that was designed to target the âInternet of thingsâ infecting Intel x86-powered Linux devices. Symantec security experts have detected across a worm that exploits various vulnerabilities in PHP to infect Intel x86-powered Linux devices. Home internet kits with x86 chips are exposed to the risk of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2013
Atrax, yet another commercial crimekit on the black market, a malware able to exploit Tor and that implements numerous features including Bitcoin mining. Atrax is the name of the last crimekit that is sold in the underground market, its particularity is the capability to exploit Tor networks to communicate with Command & Control infrastructure. Jonas […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2013
Security experts Stewart from Dell SecureWorks and independent researcher David Shearhave explored online underground marketplace for stolen data. Digital identity is one of the most attractive goods sold in the underground, to a growing demand coincided with a more structured supply that will satisfy even the most complex requirements. Cybercrime pays and in the majority […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2013
A new report based on documents leaked by Snowden revealed that the NSA placed malicious software on more than 50000 networks around the world. The NSA infected more than 50000 networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. The large-scale cyber espionage operation was revealed once again by documents provided by former NSA […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2013
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 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 […]
