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Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2014

Spam campaign advertise WhatsApp for PC-beware it is a Trojan banker

Kaspersky Lab malware expert Dmitry Bestuzhev revealed a large-scale spam email campaign that is advertising the PC version of the mobile WhatsApp app to spread a banking trojan. A large-scale spam email campaign is advertising the PC version of the popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, it’s a pity that the application does not actually exist […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2014

The author of BlackPOS malware professes his innocence and good faith

Thanks to efficient investigation conducted by private firms like IntelCrawler, BlackPOS author was identifyed and professes his innocence and good faith. I was within the official source to spot the 23-year-old teenager who developed the BlackPOS malware thanks to the revelations made by Cyber Intelligence firm IntelCrawler. The author of BlackPOS was known as “ree[4]” in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2014

Sefnit botnet-Microsoft has silently uprooted Tor Browser from more than 2 Million PC

Microsoft has uprooted Tor Browser from more than 2 Million Systems to eradicate Sefnit botnet. It has done it silently without user agreement. It was August 2013 when security experts noted a spike in Tor traffic network caused by cybercriminals activities, the malware specialists discovered a botnet based on Mevade malware, in mid-August the number […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2014

SERT Q4 2013 Threat Intelligence Report on threat landscape evolution

Solutionary security firm published SERT Q4 2013 Threat Intelligence Report to provide an overview of the overall threat landscape. Recently Solutionary security firm published SERT Q4 2013 Threat Intelligence Report to provide an overview of the overall threat landscape, the document is the result of a research conducted over the last three months correlating events across devices […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2014

17-years-old teenager is the author of BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware (Target), several other breaches may be revealed soon

IntelCrawler Exclusive “17-years-old teenager is the author of BlackPOS malware (Target), several other breaches may be revealed soon” The massive data breach at Target during the 2013 holiday shopping season which the retailer now admits affected 70 million customers used an inexpensive “off the shelf” malware known as BlackPOS. The same malware may have also […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2014

Kaspersky discovered Icefog Hit US energy companies with Java Backdoor

Kaspersky experts discovered a java version of icefog espionage campaign that targeted at least 3 us oil, gas companies spreading a backdoor dubbed Javafog. Kaspersky Lab in September 2013 announced to have discovered Icefog team, an emerging group of cyber-mercenaries available for hire to conduct surgical hit and run operations against strategic targets. The cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2014

Flashback botnet is still active, Mac users are warned

Intego Malware Research Team discovered that OSX Flashback trojan is still active with sinkholing activity. Mac users must be aware. Flashback Trojan is a cyber threat known since 2011, it is a trojan horse that targeted a Java vulnerability on Mac OS X machines, early 2012 it spread to infect up to 600,000 machines as […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2014

Malware based attack hit Japanese Monju Nuclear Power Plant

IT administrator at Monju Nuclear Power Plant discovered that a malware-based attack infected a system in the reactor control room. On January 2nd one of the eight computers in the control room at Monju Nuclear Power Plant was compromised. An IT administrator has discovered that the system in the reactor control room had been accessed over […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2014

Windows Zero-Day vulnerability used in targeted attacks against 28 Embassies

TrendLab malware analysts confirmed that recent Windows Zero-Day vulnerability was exploited in cyber attack against Embassies in a Middle Eastern capital. At the end of the last year Microsoft revealed that a zero-day vulnerability was in use in targeted attacks against Windows XP and Server 2003 systems. The discovery of the flaw in Microsoft OSs was made […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2014

Project NETRA – The Indian Internet Surveillance

The Indian Government is launching Netra project for internet surveillance. Obvious concerns for online privacy and freedom of expression of Indian population. The Internet surveillance in India is reality thanks a project codenamed NETRA (Network Traffic Analysis), it is able to detect and automatically capture any voice traffic passing through software such as VoIP systems […]

Malware

Spam campaign advertise WhatsApp for PC-beware it is a Trojan banker

The author of BlackPOS malware professes his innocence and good faith

Sefnit botnet-Microsoft has silently uprooted Tor Browser from more than 2 Million PC

SERT Q4 2013 Threat Intelligence Report on threat landscape evolution

17-years-old teenager is the author of BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware (Target), several other breaches may be revealed soon

Kaspersky discovered Icefog Hit US energy companies with Java Backdoor

Flashback botnet is still active, Mac users are warned

Malware based attack hit Japanese Monju Nuclear Power Plant

Windows Zero-Day vulnerability used in targeted attacks against 28 Embassies

Project NETRA – The Indian Internet Surveillance

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