Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2016
Just before Christmas a massive DDoS attack powered by a new botnet dubbed Leet Botnet hit the network of the firm Imperva. Security experts from the firm Imperva observed a massive attack against the company network on the morning of Dec. 21. The massive DDoS attack reached 650 Gbps, according to the researchers it was powered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2016
Experts from Proofpoint discovered a new phishing campaign designed to steal banking data leveraging tactics associated with malware distribution. Security experts from Proofpoint have discovered a new phishing campaign that presents many similarities with campaigns used to spread the Cerber ransomware and the Ursnif banking Trojan. Cyber criminals adopted a technique that leverages on the distribution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2016
The number of cyber attacks against organizations in the healthcare industry is increasing, this trend is expected to continue in 2017. The monitoring of the activity in the cyber criminal underground is essential for investigators and security experts. The value of illegal products and services gives us a precious information on cyber criminal trends. Security experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2016
Alice ATM malware is a new threat targeting ATMs discovered by researchers at Trend Micro as part of a joint research project with Europol EC3. Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a strain of ATM malware, dubbed Alice, that was designed to target the safes of the self-serve machines. The malware is very essential, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2016
A criminal gang dubbed AFT13 is making between $3 Million to $5 Million per day from US and media companies in biggest advertising fraud ever dubbed Methbot This is a case study, a criminal gang dubbed AFT13 is making between $3 Million to $5 Million per day from US and media companies in biggest advertising fraud […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2016
Security researchers have released a decryption tool for unlocking files encrypted by the notorious CryptXXX v.3 ransomware. CryptXXX v.3 ransomware was defeated, researchers have released a decryption tool for unlocking encrypted files. The decryption tool was included in the RannohDecryptor utility, a free application shared by the No Ransom Project. The utility was already able to unlock […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2016
The banker Android ransomware Faketoken that steals financial information and sensitive data now also implements file-encrypting abilities. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a strain of known Android malware that now implements also ransomware-like abilities. According to the researchers, Vxers are adding file-encrypting capabilities to traditional mobile banking trojans, the result is a malware that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2016
Security experts from Wordfence observed a huge increase in Brute Force attacks in the last three weeks. The security firm Wordfence is warning the WordPress community of a spike in the number of brute force attacks against websites running WordPress. has increased significantly in December compared to the previous period. The researchers observed brute force attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2016
According to Andrew Komarov, Chief Intelligence Officer (CIO) at security firm InfoArmor, the Yahoo database was sold for $300,000 on the dark web. Recently Yahoo admitted one billion accounts exposed in a newly discovered data breach occurred in 2013. Hackers broke into the systems of Yahoo and accessed one billion user accounts containing names, addresses, phone […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2016
Security researchers discovered a new phishing campaign leveraging Punycode and a bug in Office 365 defense systems to deceive victims. Office 365 business email users continue to be the target of phishing campaigns, a new wave of attacks was leveraging Punycode to avoid detection of Microsoft’s default security and desktop email filters. Punycode is a method added […]
