Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2015
Scammers are earning advertising revenue by spreading click-fraud malware Tubrosa, which sends compromised computers to their YouTube videos. A new Click-fraud malware campaign aimed at earning money by using the victim’s machine to view YouTube videos and benefits from ads embedded in them. The malicious campaign, discovered by experts at Symantec, has targeted users around the world […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2015
The NSA has been targeting North Korea and its impenetrable system for a long time. Thanks to the new revelations that have been brought to light, the NSA has aimed to equip the USA for possible digital wars in the near future, using surveillance and digital weapons to enhance its existing power. Though North Korea […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2015
The French security expert Kafeine has discovered an unpatched vulnerability (0day) in Flash Player is being exploited by Angler Exploit Kit. The Angler exploit kit is one of the most popular crimeware kit and according to the French security researcher Kafeine it was enriched with a fresh Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability. Kafeine has discovered a new variant of the Angler […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2015
Hacks in Taiwan security conference has uncovered a malware-based attack involving several online games to spread the PlugX RAT. Experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new malicious campaign based on the popular PlugX RAT, the threat actor behind the attack has bundled the malware with League of Legends (LoL) and Path of Exile (PoE) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2015
The Independent institute AV-Test issued an analysis that recorded 143 Million new malware samples in 2014 and 12 million new variants per month. The German independent IT security institute AV-Test has published an interesting statistic on the current diffusion of malicious code, the data reveal that experts noticed 12 million new variants per month. AV-Test provides […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2015
Security experts at Blue Coat have discovered that criminal criminals exploited the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie in order to spread the popular DarkComet RAT. Every time there is a clamorous event cyber criminals try to take advantage of the people’s interest to run illegal activities, it is happened recently with the incident to the Air Asia Flight and is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2015
Malware experts at Symantec discovered a new strain of the notorious Carberp Trojan designed to steal banking credentials and sensitive data from victims. Security experts at Symantec have discovered on December 15 a malicious campaign for distributing of a new strain of the notorious Carberp Trojan. The continuous evolution of Carberp, exactly like other popular malware inclusing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2015
Security Experts at Microsoft discovered a new variant of CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware that adopts I2P Anonymity Network for C&C Communications. A new version of CryptoWall ransomware has been detected in the wild by experts at Microsoft, just a week after I reported that Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group detected a new strain of the same […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2015
Dell SecureWorks detected the Skeleton Key malware, which modifies authentication process on Active Directory (AD) systems protected by only passwords. The experts at Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit(TM) (CTU) have recently discovered a malware dubbed Skeleton Key that bypasses single-factor authentication on Active Directory (AD) systems. The attackers can use to have total access to remote […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2015
Security Experts at ESET firm discovered that Windigo campaign is still active and that bad actors are changing their tactics to remain under the radar. Windigo is a sophisticated malware-based campaign uncovered by security Experts at ESET in March 2014, hackers behind the campaign that exploited the Linux/Ebury backdoor compromising more than 500,000 computers and 25,000 dedicated servers. The […]
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