Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2017
According to security experts from Symantec and BAE Systems, the recently discovered attacks aimed at Poland banks are linked to the Lazarus Group. Last week, several Polish banks confirmed their systems were infected with a malware after their staff visited the site of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. The cyber attack was first reported by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2017
Crooks exploiting Word documents laced with malicious macros to compromise Apple Mac systems exactly in the same way they do with Microsoft machines. It’s amazing the number of Apple Mac users that tell me their systems are immune from malware. This false sense of security is very dangerous and I believe it is important to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2017
The infamous Kelihos botnet climbed to the top position, while the Conficker worm dropped to fourth on the chart of malware. Which are the most active malware in the wild? According to a research conducted by CheckPoint Security, a malware landscape was characterized by some interesting changed in this first part of 2017. The Kelihos botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2017
CRYSIS Ransomware attacks leveraging brute force via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) are still ongoing, mostly targeting US firms in the healthcare. Do you remember the CRYSIS ransomware? It is a ransomware that appeared in the threat landscape last year, now researchers at Trend Micro discovered the CRYSIS ransomware is being distributed via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) brute force […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2017
More than a hundred banks and financial institutions in 40 countries have been infected with a sophisticated fileless malware that is very hard to detect. Hundreds of banks and financial institutions across the world may have been infected with a sophisticated fileless malware that is hard to detect. The threat was discovered by the experts at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2017
Researchers at the antivirus firm Dr.Web discovered a new strain of the Mirai bot, a Windows variant, targeting more ports. Security experts at the antivirus firm Dr.Web discovered a new strain of the Mirai bot targeting more ports, and it is a Windows version of the popular IoT malware. The Windows version of the Mirai bot […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2017
The online game platform Steam is fixing a serious bug that could be exploited to redirect users to malicious websites and take over their profile. The popular online game platform Steam is going to fix a serious vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers to redirect users to malicious websites, use their market funds, and also change their profile. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2017
PhishMe security researchers discovered that the Locky and Sage ransomware were recently observed being distributed by the same delivery infrastructure. It’s a common habit of cyber criminals to share delivery infrastructure to maximize the use of their resource and minimize the cost, Recently the Locky ransomware was observed being distributed through the delivery infrastructure used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2017
Several Polish banks confirmed their systems were infected with a malware after their staff visited the site of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. Polish banks are investigating a massive cyber attack after a malware was spotted on several servers of the financial institutions. The cyber attack was first reported by the Zaufana Trzecia Strona, a local […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2017
The group of hacktivists Anonymous hacked the popular Freedom Hosting II Dark Web hosting provider, a fifth of the .onion websites is down. The collective Anonymous is back, this time the hacker groups breached Freedom Hosting II, a popular Dark Web hosting provider. After the closure of the original Freedom Hosting, Freedom Hosting II (FHII) become […]
