Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2014
Executing an order of a Nevada Court, Microsoft has seized domains belonging to the No-IP.com Dynamic DNS Service affecting the traffic of million users. Microsoft has executed a large-scale operation against a malware network thought to be responsible for more than 7.4 million infections of Windows machines worldwide. The operation conducted by Microsoft has brought down millions of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2014
Trend Micro analyzed a targeted attack against a Taiwanese government entity which used a variant of the PlugX RAT that abuses the Dropbox service. Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that a targeted attack against a government agency in Taiwan was conducted using a variant of the PlugX remote access tool (RAT) which abuses the popular file hosting service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2014
Security experts at CSIS in Denmark have discovered a new piece of banking malware, dubbed Dyreza, which implements browser hooking to defeat SSL. Dyreza is the name of a new banking Trojan which is targeting numerous financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citibank, Natwest, RBS and Ulsterbank. Dyreza captured the attention of security researchers due the technique it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2014
The DoJ and the FBI announced a multinational effort to disrupt the GameOver Zeus botnet responsible for the theft of millions of dollars worldwide. The U.S. DoJ in collaboration with FBI and foreign law enforcement agencies revealed early this week a joint effort to disrupt Gameover Zeus, one of the most long-lived and dangerous botnet composed by a number […]
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 11, 2014
US DoJ formalized a proposal to allow U.S Federal Agencies to secretly hack suspects’ computers to collect criminal evidence into investigations. The US Justice Department (DOJ) wants secretly hack into the suspected criminal’s computer during investigations at any times in bunches for collection of evidence. The document titled “COMMITTEE ON RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE” defines […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2014
Discover how it is possible to apply steganography to hide secret messages in common tweets (or any text) with steg.js-of-the-dump. In the past we have discussed many times on the adoption of steganography to hide messages within images and video, a technique exploited also by authors of malware to hide configuration file and command sent by the C&C […]
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 23, 2014
Eugene Kaspersky explained that SmartTV are vulnerable to malware-based cyber attacks, it’s a question of time to assist a large-scale infection. In the last months we discussed about possible infection through the Internet of Things, in particular, we focused on cyber attacks on home appliances including Routers, SmartTV, refrigerators and ovens. The number of smart devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2014
Distil Networks security firm has published an interesting report on the Bad Bot Landscape, it is full of data on the evolution of malicious architecture. Surfing on the Internet I have found The Bad Bot Landscape Report Q1 2014 and interesting study issued by the Distil Networks security firm which provides an interesting analysis of botnet evolution detected by the […]
