Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2018
The popular malware researchers Marco Ramilli has analyzed a malware that remained under the radar for more than two years. Today I’d like to share the following reverse engineering path since it ended up to be more complex respect what I thought. The full path took me about hours work and the sample covers many […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2018
Javascript evasion technique – Security Expert Marco Ramilli detailed a fun and innovative way to evade reverse-engineering techniques based on Javascript technology. Understanding the real code behind a Malware is a great opportunity for Malware analysts, it would increase the chances to understand what the sample really does. Unfortunately it is not always possible figuring […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2017
Security expert discovered severe flaws in most popular programming languages that could expose to hack any secure application built on top of them. Last week, IOActive Senior Security Consultant Fernando Arnaboldi presented at the Black Hat Europe 2017 security conference the results of an interesting research about vulnerabilities in several popular interpreted programming languages. Arnaboldi […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2017
Splunk has fixed the security issue in the JavaScript implementation, tracked as CVE-2017-5607, that can be exploited to siphon data. Splunk has fixed the security issue in the JavaScript implementation, tracked as CVE-2017-5607, that leaks user information. Splunk provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence that is used to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data. Splunk […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2017
Google announced Gmail will soon stop allowing users to attach JavaScript (.js) files to emails for obvious security reason. Google announced Gmail will soon stop allowing users to attach JavaScript (.js) files to emails for obvious security reason. JavaScripts files, like many other file types (i,e, .exe, .jar, .sys, .scr, .bat, .com, .vbs and .cmd) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2016
The Pastejacking Attack exploits JavaScript to override the clipboard content and trick victims into running malicious code. The security expert Dylan Ayrey has devised a new attack technique dubbed Pastejacking attack that leverages on the victim’s clipboard. The possibility of manipulating clipboard without a victim noticing it a known for a long time, it is possible to do […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2015
At the MobilePwn2Own, a Chinese expert has demonstrated how to hijack an Android smartphone by exploiting a zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser. The Chinese expert Guang Gong from Qihoo 360 has demonstrated how to hijack an Android smartphone by exploiting a flaw in the Chrome browser. The researcher demonstrated the hack at the MobilePwn2Own at the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2015
Four security researchers at the Columbia University have developed a new technique dubbed Spy in the sandbox attack to spy on victims’ online activity. Four security researchers at the Columbia University (Yossef Oren, Vasileios Kemerlis, Simha Sethumadhavan, and Angelos Keromytis) have developed a new technique to hack computer using a Javascript that allow them to […]
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