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Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2014

A Brazilian newspaper site used in server malware to change Router DNS Settings

A Brazilian newspaper’s website has been hacked to serve a malware that tries to change the victim’s router DNS settings brute forcing the admin panel. A Brazilian political newspaper’s website has been compromised with malware that tries to change the victim’s router DNS settings. The security firm Securi has published a blog post on a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2014

Chinese criminal underground is doubled between 2012 and 2013

Expert at TrendMicro published a new chapter of the Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series in which analyzed the Chinese underground. Chinese cybercrime underground activity is rapidly increasing, according to a new interesting report published by Trend Micro the Chinese it is doubled between 2012 and 2013. The findings confirm that amount of underground activity in China doubled both with […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2014

IptabLes and IptabLex botnet targeting Linux servers to run large-scale DDoS attacks

Experts at Akamai-Prolexic discovered a botnet dubbed IptabLes and IptabLex that infects and exploits poorly-maintained Linux servers to run DDoS attacks. Akamai’s Prolexic division has uncovered a new botnet dubbed IptabLes and IptabLex, which was used in a series of attacks targeting malware based on Linux servers. The experts revealed that the IptabLes and IptabLex botnet compromises misconfigured and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2014

Malvertising campaign hit high profile websites including java_com

A new malvertising campaign has been spotted by experts at Fox-IT, the researchers discovered malicious ads on high-profile websites including Java.com. Experts at Fox-IT revealed in a blog post the Internet firm AppNexus is the origin of a new “malvertising” campaign, which is based on the Angler Exploit Kit to redirect visitors to malicious websites serving the Asprox malware. AppNexus provides a platform […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2014

470 million sites are One Day Wonders, one in five is malicious

A study conducted by Blue Coat on 660 million unique hostnames reports that 470 Million websites are One Day Wonders and 22 Percent are malicious. A recent research conducted by security experts at Blue Coat revealed that 470 million websites exist only for one day and nearly one on five is malicious. Blue Coat experts over a […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2014

Russian Hackers disguise Kelihos bot as Anti-Government Software

Russian Hackers are spreading the Kelihos Trojan leading victims into believing that it is a software to hit Western Governments. Kelihos botnet is still active and exploited by the cybercrime ecosystem to monetize its effort as discovered by security experts at Bitdefender. Cyber criminals have a single purpose, to earn money by any means, for this reason it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2014

Replica of the Tor website used to serve malware

A security researcher discovered the Torbundlebrowser.org,web site that is a replica of Tor Project site, but it is used to serve a malware. The increasing popularity of Tor network is attracting cyber criminals, recently the French security researcher Florent Daigniere discovered a website (torbundlebrowser.org) that is the replica of the original Tor Network but a […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2014

Bad Actors rebuild from scratch the Gameover Zeus Botnet

Experts at Arbor networks discovered a new variant of GameOver Zeus Botnet which implement DGA scheme. Recently law enforcement agencies have taken down the GameOver Zeus botnet with a multinational effort, but a few weeks later, researchers at Seculert spotted a new variant in the wild, which implements a domain generation algorithm.Investigators from FBI and Europol […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2014

Reading the Malware Trend Report, Q2 2014 issued by RedSocks

RedSocks Malware Research Labs issued the Malware Trend Report Q2 2014, which contains data evolution of principal cyber threats observed in the second quarter of the year. The Dutch company specializing in Malware detection RedSocks Research Lab. Has published the second quarterly trend report for 2014. The experts have analyzed large numbers of malicious files […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2014

Attacks on ISP Networks allows to steal $83,000 from Bitcoin Mining pools

Researchers at Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit discovered a theft of Bitcoin made hijacking networks of at least 19 Internet service providers. With the rise of Bitcon value has increased the interest of cybercrime, since now we have read of botnet able to mine virtual currency with victim’s resources and malicious codes able to steal Bitcoin […]

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A Brazilian newspaper site used in server malware to change Router DNS Settings

Chinese criminal underground is doubled between 2012 and 2013

IptabLes and IptabLex botnet targeting Linux servers to run large-scale DDoS attacks

Malvertising campaign hit high profile websites including java_com

470 million sites are One Day Wonders, one in five is malicious

Russian Hackers disguise Kelihos bot as Anti-Government Software

Replica of the Tor website used to serve malware

Bad Actors rebuild from scratch the Gameover Zeus Botnet

Reading the Malware Trend Report, Q2 2014 issued by RedSocks

Attacks on ISP Networks allows to steal $83,000 from Bitcoin Mining pools

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