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Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2017
Rogue Cellphone towers used to spread the Android Swearing Trojan

Chinese scammers are deploying rogue cellphone towers to spread the Android Swearing Trojan via malicious URL in SMS messages. Chinese scammers are deploying fake mobile base stations to spread the Android Swearing Trojan in text messages. The attackers have improved the well-known Smishing attack using rogue cell phone towers as the attack vector and distribute the Android […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2017
Dridex v4, the dreaded malware has been improved with AtomBombing technique

Malware author are using Dridex v4 in the wild, an improved version of the Trojan that includes a new injection method known as AtomBombing. According to researchers with IBM X-Force, vxers have improved the Dridex banking Trojan adding a new injection method for evading detection, the technique is known as AtomBombing. The researchers have spotted […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2017
The author of the NeverQuest banking Trojan arrested in Spain

The Spanish law enforcement has arrested an alleged Russian Vxer suspected of developing the infamous Neverquest banking Trojan. Today I report another success of law enforcement, the Spanish police have arrested an alleged Russian Vxer suspected of developing the infamous Neverquest banking Trojan. The malware was developed to target financial institutions across the world. Lisov is suspected of being […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2016
Odinaff Trojan behind financial attacks mostly in Turkey

Akbank, one of the largest Turkish banks seems to be the latest victim of the Odinaff trojan, a threat similar to the Carbanak malware. Odinaff; a malware similar to Carbanak, has been targeting financial institutions around the world since the beginning of the year. “Since January 2016, discreet campaigns involving malware called Trojan.Odinaff have targeted a number […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2016
Android Acecard banking trojan asks users for selfie with an ID card

Experts discovered a new variant of the Android Acecard banking trojan that asks victims to take a selfie while they are holding an ID card. The inventiveness of the criminals is a never ending pit. Recently, a number of organizations announced a new authentication method based on the selfies. For example, HSBC customers can open […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2016
Vawtrak v2, a close look at the cybercriminal groups behind the threat

Security experts from the cyber threat intelligence firm Blueliv have published a report on the banking Trojan Vawtrak v2 its criminal ecosystem. Security experts from the cyber threat intelligence firm Blueliv have conducted a technical investigation on the banking Trojan Vawtrak v2 and activities of the cybercriminal groups behind the threat. Vawtrak is a threat that has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2016
New Gozi Campaigns Target Global Brands with sophisticated features

Researchers from Buguroo discovered new Gozi campaigns using new techniques that targeted many banks and financial services worldwide. The Gozi malware was first spotted in 2007, its source code has been leaked twice in the criminal underground allowing the creation of new sophisticated version. Recently security experts from the IBM X-Force Research spotted a new threat dubbed GozNym […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2016
A new Brazilian banking Trojan leverages on PowerShell

According to Kaspersky experts Brazilian crooks have made an important addition to their malware leveraging on the PowerShell. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a sophisticated banking trojan targeting Brazilian users. The threat, codenamed Trojan-Proxy.PowerShell.Agent.a, leverages on the Microsoft’s PowerShell utility. It is considered one of the most complex Brazilian malware samples discovered since […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2016
Vawtrak banking Trojan improved once again, now with SSL Pinning

Security experts from Fidelis firm spotted a new version of the Vawtrak banking Trojan that includes significant improvements such as the SSL pinning. Malware researchers from security firm Fidelis have spotted a new strain of the infamous Vawtrak banking Trojan that leverages on a DGA mechanism to generates .ru domains with a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2016
PayPal accounts abused to distribute the Chthonic Banking Trojan

Experts from Proofpoint discovered that the Banking trojan Chthonic was distributed via ‘legitimate’ PayPal accounts by abusing the “money request” feature. The imagination of cyber criminals is a never-ending pit, according to the security firm Proofpoint, crooks are abusing PayPal to distribute the Chtonic banking trojan. Chtonic is a strain of the most notorious Zeus Trojan, the […]

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