Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2016
Experts at Kaspersky Lab discovered that Carbanak cybergang is back and other groups are adopting similar APT-style techniques to steal money. Security researchers at the 2016 edition of SAS in Tenerife revealed that the infamous Carbanak gang is back, and it is not the unique group that is adopting APT-style techniques to steal money from banks. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2016
Russian authorities raided offices of a Russian film distribution and production company as part of an operation against the Dyre gang. Russian law enforcement and intelligence agencies in November raided offices of a Russian film distribution and production company as part of an operation against one of the world’s most notorious cybercrime ring. The authorities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2016
Experts at the SANS Technology Institute spotted an OS X scareware campaign that leverages fake Adobe Flash Player installers. Johannes Ullrich, security expert at the SANS Technology Institute, spotted an OS X scareware campaign that leverages fake Adobe Flash Player installers to trick users into downloading malicious software. The expert discovered the malicious campaign while analyzing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2016
Operators running websites based on the WordPress must be aware of a spike in the number of compromised platforms used to deliver the TeslaCrypt ransomware. Administrators running websites based on the popular WordPress CMS must be aware of a spike in hacks that are resulting in the silent delivery of ransomware to the visitors. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2016
Unknowns have pwned the Dridex botnet and are using it to spread a legitimate copy of the Avira Antivirus software instead the malicious payload. This story is very intriguing, someone has hacked a portion of the dreaded Dridex botnet and replaced malicious links with references to installers for the Avira Antivirus. The Antivirus company denies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2016
According to a new report from Panda Security more than 84 million new malware samples were detected over the 2015, 27% of all malware of ever. In 2015, security experts have detected the a record number of new malware, according to a report published by Panda Security more than 84 million new malware samples were collected. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2016
Security Experts at FireEye discovered a new strain of POS malware dubbed CenterPOS that is threatening the retail systems. In the last 2/3 years, we have seen a significant increase in the number of POS malware, their diffusion is becoming even more worrying. We read about many high-profile breaches that involved high-complex malware targeting payment systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2016
Experts at Symantec detected Lockdroid a new piece of Android ransomware capable of locking devices and fully wiping user data via factory resets. A new strain of ransomware called Lockdroid (Android.Lockdroid.E) is threatening Android users. The mobile ransomware has been detected by experts at Symantec, it is able to lock the device, change the PINs, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2016
The Turkish security researcher Utku Sen was blackmailed by hackers behind the Magic ransomware to close his projects. The developers behind the open source-based “Magic” ransomware are blackmailing the creator of Hidden Tear and EDA2 in order to force the developer to abandon the projects. Recently I have written about the RANSOM_CRYPTEAR.B ransomware developed Utku Sen starting from a proof-of-concept […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2016
The victims of the infamous TeslaCrypt ransomware can now rejoice, there is a free tool to decrypt files encrypted by TeslaCrypt and TeslaCrypt 2.0 TeslaCrypt is one of the most insidious ransomware first detected in the wild in 2015, today I have a good news for its victims. TeslaCrypt was first detected in February 2015, the […]
