Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2015
Experts at FireEye have discovered a stealthy botnet relying on a backdoor called LATENTBOT has compromised companies around. Experts at FireEye have discovered a stealthy botnet relying on a backdoor called LATENTBOT has compromised companies around. According to FireEye the LATENTBOT remained undetected since 2013 infecting computers in US, UK, South Korea, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Canada, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2015
Ponmocup is one of the oldest botnet that infected more than 15 million machines across the years, but many experts still ignore it. Ponmocup is one of the largest and oldest botnets in circulation, but many security experts still ignore it. According to the experts at Fox IT, the botnet is underestimated and infected across the years […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2015
Trend Micro uncovered a large-scale operation dubbed Black Atlas operation, in reference to notorious BlackPOS PoS malware. It’s Christmas time also for crooks, in this period the number of credit card breaches and scams increases with alarming punctuality. In the US, we use to assist an increase of credit card breaches involving PoS malware, last victims in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2015
Experts at Symantec have discovered a new variant of  the Chikdos DDoS-Trojan that is targeting MySQL servers worldwide. There is a malware in the wild that abuses MySQL Servers for DDoS Attacks, the experts named it Chikdos. The threat was detected for the first time by the Polland CERT and according to the experts it has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2015
A joint effort of law enforcement agencies the US and EU and with the support of private cybersecurity firm aims to disrupt the activities of the Dridex botnet. Dridex malware is known to be the successor of another malware like Cridex, Feodo, Bugat, etc etc, and uses many techniques with the purpose of stealing users, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2015
Experts at Akamai discovered the Linux XOR DDoS Botnet,  a malicious infrastructure used to run potent DDoS attacks against dozens of targets. Security researchers have discovered a Linux Botnet, dubbed XOR DDoS or Xor.DDoS botnet, that is targeting gaming and education websites with potent DDoS attacks with reached 150 gigabytes per second of malicious traffic. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2015
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab published a report on the Turla APT revealing the use Satellite links to control its botnet. According to a new analysis published by the experts at Kaspersky Lab reported that the popular Turla APT group exploited poorly secured satellite infrastructure to hide command-and-control operations. Turla APT was active in the last decade, […]
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
June 17, 2015
A brief introduction to several malware-related terms in an easy-to-understand manner. A useful glossary to better understand the “malware” terminology. Introduction The world that we live in is constantly changing; it is always evolving. The sophistication of the technology at the disposal of both those who “wear” a white hat (the good guys) and those who wear a black hat (the bad guys) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2015
Linux/Moose is a malware family that targets Linux-based consumer routers turning them into social network bots to use for illegal activities. ESET released a study about a new malware known as Moose worm that is compromising devices that have a weak or default credentials. The principal target of the Moose worm are the linux-based routers, […]
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