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Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2018

The SLoad Powershell malspam is expanding to Italy

A new malspam campaign hit Italy in this days, threat actors are spreading a new variant of a powerful downloader named sLoad. sLoad is a sophisticated script, used in the past to deliver different types of malware such as the dreaded “Ramnit banker”. “In the past months CERT-Yoroi observed an emerging attack pattern targeting its […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2018

Unusual Malspam campaign targets banks with Microsoft Publisher files

Researchers from Trustwave have uncovered a malspam campaign targeting banks with the FlawedAmmyy RAT. The peculiarity of this malspam campaign is the unusual use of a Microsoft Office Publisher file to infect victims’ systems. Experts noticed an anomalous spike in the number of emails with a Microsoft Office Publisher file (a .pub attachment) and the subject line, “Payment Advice,” that was sent to domains belonging […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2018

Recently patched CVE-2018-4878 Adobe Flash Player flaw now exploited by cybercriminals

Security researchers at Morphisec have uncovered a massive hacking campaign that is exploiting the recently patched CVE-2018-4878 Adobe Flash Player vulnerability. Threat actors are exploiting the use-after-free flaw to deliver malware. The CVE-2018-4878 vulnerability was fixed by Adobe on February 6, after security experts discovered it was used by North Korea-linked APT37 group in targeted […]

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The SLoad Powershell malspam is expanding to Italy

Unusual Malspam campaign targets banks with Microsoft Publisher files

Recently patched CVE-2018-4878 Adobe Flash Player flaw now exploited by cybercriminals

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