Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2017
A new strain of the notorious macOS Proton malware is spreading through a blog spoofing the legitimate blog of the security firm Symantec. The attackers used the same domain registration information of the original site, except for the email address. The SSL digital certificate for the site is a legitimate certificate issued by Comodo instead of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2017
Experts from the firm Sucuri observed a new wave of wp-vcd malware attacks that is targeting WordPress sites leveraging flaws in outdated plugins and themes A new malware campaign is threatening WordPress installs, the malicious code tracked as wp-vcd hides in legitimate WordPress files and is used by attackers to add a secret admin user and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2017
Malware researchers at MalwareHunterTeam discovered a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware, the second one in just a few days. A new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware was recently discovered by the experts at the MalwareHunterTeam, it is the second release of new variants this week. The latest variant appends the. 0000 extension to encrypted files and uses new contact emails, for example, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2017
Happy BirthDay Security Affairs! Six years together, I launched Security Affairs for passion in November 2011 and every day dozens of new friends join in my community. It is a dream that comes true, thank your support, I started with a daily single post, today I try to cover the best news almost in real time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2017
Security experts at Trend Micro had recently observed a new variant of the EMOTET banking Trojan that implements new evasion features. EMOTET, aka Geodo, is linked to the dreaded Dridex and Feodo (Cridex, Bugat) malware families. In past campaigns, EMOTET was used by crooks to steal banking credentials and as a malicious payload downloader. The experts observed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2017
In early November, the City of Spring Hill, Tenn, suffered a ransomware attack, but it still hasn’t recovered from attack attack. In early November, the City of Spring Hill, Tenn, suffered a ransomware attack, but government officials refused to pay a $250,000 ransom demanded by the crooks and attempted to restore the database recovering the content […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2017
Researchers at IBM have spotted a new banking malware dubbed IcedID has capabilities similar to other financial threats like Gozi, Zeus, and Dridex. Malware researchers at IBM X-Force have spotted a new strain of banking malware dubbed IcedID has capabilities similar to other financial threats like Gozi, Zeus, and Dridex. IcedID does not borrow code from other banking malware, but it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2017
The Hilton hotel chain is paying a $700,000 settlement after being accused of mishandling two separate credit card data breaches. The Hilton hotel chain is paying a $700,000 settlement to the states of New York and Vermont after being accused of mishandling two separate cyber attacks that exposed financial data of its customers. The credit card breaches […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2017
Equifax announced during the third quarter of 2017, it incurred $87.5 million in expenses related to the cyber attack that was reported in September. It is very difficult to estimate the overall losses caused by a cyber attack because victims incur in direct and indirect costs that aren’t easy to calculate. This week the credit reporting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2017
Security experts spotted a new malware dubbed Ordinypt, it is a wiper disguised as ransomware that currently only targets German users The malware researcher Michael Gillespie first reported a new strain of malware called Ordinypt that is currently targeting German users, but unfortunately instead of encrypting users’ files, the malware intentionally destroy them. Tweets by demonslay335 Early this […]
