Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2014
Journalist Glenn Greenwald published the last revelation of NSA surveillance, the agency tampers with US-made internet routers destined for foreign markets. A new collection of documents leaked by Edward Snowden claims the NSA intercepted US-made routers bound for export and to implant backdoor in their circuits. The allegations have been published by the journalist Glenn Greenwald, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2014
Check Point 2014 Security Report shows major security events occurred in 2013 show and provides useful information on current malware trends. Check Point Software Technologies published 2014 Security Report to highlight major security events occurred last year and show current malware trends. The data were collected monitoring network traffic from 996 organizations of various industries. Nearly 84 percent […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2014
Dutch malware detection company RedSocks has issued its first Malware Trend Report related to the malicious code trends observed in the first quarter of 2014. RedSocks, a Dutch malware detection company which provides netflow-based malware detection service, has published its first Malware Trend Report Labs related to the first quarter of 2014. The report provides precious insights into the trends […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2014
Securi firm has published an interesting post to explain how malware authors could hide a backdoor using PHP Callback functions. Security expert Peter Gramantik at Security Firm has written an interesting blog post to describe how it is possible to hide a backdoor using common PHP callback functions. The technique could surprise the laymen, but malware authors are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2014
The last report issued by China’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CNCERT) blames US for the majority of malware based attacks against the Chinese systems. There was once a dreaded China that violated the systems across the world and all the countries accused its cyber units to conduct aggressive and reckless hacking, today’s world politics discovered that US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2014
Antivirus Firm ESET has been tracking and investigating the operation behind Linux_Ebury uncovering a sophisticated campaign called Operation Windigo. Operation Windigo is the name of a sophisticated malware-based campaign uncovered by security Experts at ESET, that exploiting the Linux/Ebury backdoor has impacted more 500,000 computers and 25,000 dedicated servers. ESET Researchers collaborated with CERT-Bund, the European Organization […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2014
Replicant developers Kocialkowski has discovered a backdoor inside Samsung Galaxy which allows file access on the mobile’s storage. Android is the open source operating system most diffused, but being an open project, there are many customized versions that run on mobile devices. Almost every mobile phone manufacturer commercializes its devices with a version of the Android OS that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2014
Asus routers are still vulnerable to remote hacking after months of the disclosure of the flaw that allows hackers to access to the device-connected drive. Ars security portal reported that hackers expose eight-month-old weakness in Asus routers by leaving a message on victims’ drives. An Ars reader claimed to have found a strange message browsing the content of his external […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2014
Speaking at Kaspersky Lab’s Industry Analyst Summit,Costin Raiu revealed details on The Mask campaign, the most sophisticated operation they’ve seen to date. The Kaspersky team recently announced to have detected a new significant APT campaign dubbed The Mask or “Careto” (Spanish for “Ugly Face” or “Mask”), a group of high-level state-sponsored hackers have been targeting government agencies, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2014
Speaking at Kaspersky Lab’s Industry Analyst Summit Costin Raiu, revealed that the cost for APT campaign is dramatically dropping. The cost of developing advanced malware has fallen dramatically malicious code like Stuxnet and Flame are today economically more affordable. It has been estimated that the expense for the development of a cyber weapon like Stuxnet,or for a […]
