Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2015
The fourth member of the CryptoWall family of ransomware, CryptoWall 4.0, has just been released, complete with new features and a brand new look. We recently reported that CryptoWall 3.0 has allegedly caused over $325 million in annual damages. CryptoWall first emerged in April 2014. Its first major upgrade was dubbed CryptoWall 2.0, and first emerged in October […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2015
According to a German website, there is a new strain of ransomware dubbed Chimera that also threatens to publish personal data on the Internet. A new strain of ransomware is targeting German companies, it is named Chimera and this time crooks don’t limit their extortion scheme to the file encrypting, they are also threatening victims […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2015
According to Vodafone UK, criminals used the stolen data obtained from “an unknown source” to try to access customers’ accounts. Personal details belonging to roughly 2,000 Vodafone customers have been compromised. According to Vodafone, cyber criminals used the stolen data (emails and passwords) obtained from “an unknown source” to try to access customers’ accounts between […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2015
Victims of CoinVault ransomware can now rely on a new set of encryption keys added to the free CoinVault Ransomware Decryptor tool to recover their files. Every day, dozens of users ask me how to decrypt their data locked by various ransomware such as CoinVault or Bitcryptor? Now I have a good news for them, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2015
A few days after the arrest of 15-year-old in Northern Ireland, the British Police arrested a second in connection with the TalkTalk breach. There is a second arrest for the TalkTalk hack, the UK Police have arrested a second individual as part of the investigation into the recent data breach suffered by the company. Also in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2015
Experts at Symantec have discovered a new variant of the Chikdos DDoS-Trojan that is targeting MySQL servers worldwide. There is a malware in the wild that abuses MySQL Servers for DDoS Attacks, the experts named it Chikdos. The threat was detected for the first time by the Polland CERT and according to the experts it has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2015
A research published by RecordedFuture demonstrates that the interest in Android RATs of Iranian Hackers is rising, DroidJack and AndroRAT are most popular. According to the threat researcher Rodrigo Bijou (@rodrigobijou), Iranian malware authors are focusing their efforts on mobile RATs, in particular, malicious codes designed to compromise Android devices. The security experts confirmed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2015
Free Web Hosting 000Webhost company hacked, data belonging to more than 13 Million customers have been leaked online by the attackers. Another company has suffered a major data breach, this time in the headlines there is the world’s most popular Free Web Hosting company 000Webhost. The 000Webhost data breach has exposed more than 13.5 Million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2015
Security experts at Sucuri reported a number of attacks exploiting a critical SQL injection flaw recently disclosed in the Joomla Content Management System. A few days ago, security experts disclosed a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the Joomla Content Management System (CVE-2015-7858), but as expected, threat actors in the wild are exploiting it in attacks against websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2015
The Dridex Banking Trojan has risen again despite the recent operation conducted by law enforcement on a global scale. Spam campaign relying on the Dridex malware continues to threaten banking users across the world despite the operations conducted by law enforcement on a global scale. We left Dridex malware spreading across the Europe, in particular targeting […]
