Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2015
The Shifu Banking Trojan is a new sophisticated malware that has been used to target the customers of more than a dozen Japanese banks. Shifu is the name of a new banking trojan that has been around since at least April targeting Japanese banks and a number of European e-banking platforms. “Shifu currently targets 14 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2015
A new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan dubbed was Sphinx is appeared for sale on the black market, it operates entirely through the Tor network. A few days ago a new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan was offered for sale on the black market, its name is Sphinx. Sphinx code is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2015
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab recently observed a big wave of malicious VBE files targeting Brazilian users to distribute Financial Trojan. Recently security experts have seen old tricks rising from the dead (like for example word/excel macros attachment in e-mails) and malicious VBE files are being spread via email targeting Brazilian users. These VBE files […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2015
Researchers at MalwareMustDie group have discovered a KINS Malware builder leaked online, it is easy to predict a rapid diffusion of the banking trojan. Security experts at the MalwareMustDie revealed that the source code of the popular KINS malware was leaked online. Early 2013, experts at RSA discovered traces the banking trojan named KINS by analyzing the offer for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2015
Trend Micro has identified Lordfenix, a student that created more than 100 different banking Trojans and other malicious tools, since April 2013. Security experts at Trend Micro have identified a 20-year-old Brazilian student which has developed and distributed more than 100 Banking malware. The young cyber criminal, which used the pseudonym of ‘Lordfenix’, ‘Hacker’s Son’ and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2015
FBI has published the lists of most wanted hackers, the rewards for their capture reach $4.2 million. They have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars. Cybercrime represents one of the most serious threat to Governments and private industries worldwide, law enforcement hunt down this emerging class of criminals who are able to influence the social […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2015
The law enforcement agencies from six European countries coordinated by the Europol have arrested members of a Ukrainian ring behind Zeus and SpyEye botnets. The law enforcement agencies from six European countries have dealt a serious blow to the organized crime by taking down a Ukrainian ring suspected of developing managing the popular Zeus and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2015
Microsoft is observing a major spike in the volume of malware using macros since the beginning of the year. The infection method was very common in the past I remember when I was starting my career, around 2006 that a lot of the existent malware would arrive to their victims trough Word/Excel macros, and that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2015
The security Expert Michael Fratello provide us a closer look at the Dridex Trojan following its investigation on the malicious agent. The Dridex Banking Trojan is a part of a family of Trojans classified as “banking trojans“. An article describing the Dridex Trojan and some of its inner-workings were published by TrendMicro in November of 2014. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2015
Security experts at Proofpoint have discovered a new phishing campaign that exploits a Dridex variant that evades detection with AutoClose function. Criminal crews behind the Dridex banking malware are very prolific and are improving the popular malicious code. Recently we have discussed about a Dridex variant which was spread through phishing messages with Microsoft Office documents embedding malicious macros. The attackers exploited social engineering technique to lure […]
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