malware

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2018
HNS Botnet evolves and targets cross-platform database solutions

The HNS IoT botnet (Hide and Seek) originally discovered by BitDefender in January evolves and now targets cross-platform database solutions. Do you remember the Hide ‘N Seek (HNS) botnet? The IoT botnet Hide ‘N Seek botnet appeared in the threat landscape in January, when it was first spotted on January 10th by malware researchers from Bitdefender. It was first discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2018
Hamas cyber-operatives lure Israeli soldiers to spyware hidden in tainted apps

Israeli military intelligence accused Hamas operatives of creating tainted apps to lure soldiers into downloading spyware onto their phones. According to a report published by the Israeli military, Hamas hackers are attempting to lure Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers into installing tainted apps on their devices. Israeli military already blamed Hamas of similar attacks, but this […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2018
Crooks leverage obfuscated Coinhive shortlink in a large crypto-mining operation

Crooks leverage an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies, they don’t inject the CoinHive JavaScript miner directly into compromised websites. Security researchers at MalwareLabs have uncovered a new crypto mining campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies, differently from other campaigns, crooks don’t inject the CoinHive JavaScript miner directly in compromised websites. CoinHive also […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2018
Adware already infected at least 78000 Fortnite Players

Rainway reported that tens of thousands of Fortnite players have been infected with an adware while downloading fake v-buck generators Fortnite continues to be one of the most popular game and crooks are attempting to target millions of fans in different ways. In June, experts observed cyber criminals attempting to exploit the interest in forthcoming Fortnite […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2018
The GandCrab ransomware V4 appears in the threat landscape

A new variant of the infamous GandCrab ransomware V4 was released during the weekend, experts shared details of the threat, A new version of the dreaded GandCrab ransomware (V4) was released during the weekend and according to the experts it included numerous changes. New #GandCrab version "V4" GANDCRAB V4 Ransomware – Remove and Restore .KRAB […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2018
RIG Exploit Kit operators leverage PROPagate Injection Technique to deliver Miner

FireEye reported the PROPagate code injection technique that was observed for the first time in a malware distribution campaign in the wild. Security experts from FireEye have documented the PROPagate code injection technique that was observed for the first time in a malware distribution campaign in the wild. The PROPagate code injection technique was first discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2018
A sample of CryptoCurrency Clipboard Hijackers monitors 2.3 Million Bitcoin addresses

A sample of CryptoCurrency Clipboard Hijackers discovered this week by BleepingComputer monitors for more than 2.3 million addresses. Almost any people that have to send cryptocurrency coins use to copy the recipient wallet address into memory from one application and use it to make the transaction. Crooks’ interest in cryptocurrency continues to grow and new malware was specifically […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2018
Recently discovered OSX.Dummy mac malware is targeting the cryptocurrency community

The former NSA white hat hacker and malware researcher Patrick Wardle analyzed a new mac malware dubbed OSX.Dummy that targets the cryptocurrency community. The popular experts decided to analyze the malicious code after the security researcher Remco Verhoef (@remco_verhoef) posted an interesting entry to SANS ‘InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog’ titled “Crypto community target of MacOS […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2018
Hackers compromised Gentoo Linux GitHub Page and planted a malicious code

The development team of the Gentoo Linux distribution notifies users that hackers compromised one of the GitHub accounts and planted a malicious code. Developers of the Gentoo Linux distribution announced that hackers compromised one of the GitHub accounts used by the organization and planted a malicious code. “Today 28 June at approximately 20:20 UTC unknown […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2018
Talos releases ThanatosDecryptor, a free Thanatos Ransomware decryptor

Experts from Cisco’s Talos team released a free decryption tool for the Thanatos ransomware to recover the files without paying the ransom. The Thanatos ransomware first appeared in the threat landscape in February when it was discovered by researchers at the MalwareHunterTeam. The experts from Talos believe the malware is being actively developed, it was being distributed […]