Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2017
Fancy Bear APT group refactored its backdoor and improved encryption to make it stealthier and harder to stop. The operations conducted by Russian Fancy Bear APT group (aka Sednit, APT28, and Sofacy, Pawn Storm, and Strontium) are even more sophisticated and hard to detect due to. According to a new report published by experts from security firm ESET, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2017
Researchers from security firm Trend Micro observed crooks spreading a new cryptocurrency mining bot dubbed Digmine via Facebook Messenger. Watch out for video file (packed in zip archive) sent by your friends via Facebook messenger, according to the researchers from security firm Trend Micro crooks are using this technique to spread a new cryptocurrency mining bot dubbed Digmine. The bot […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2017
Security researchers discovered multiple hacking campaigns conducted by a Chinese criminal gang targeting database servers. The researchers from the security firm GuardiCore Labs Security have discovered multiple hacking campaigns conducted by a Chinese criminal gang targeting database servers. The attackers targeted systems worldwide for mining cryptocurrencies, exfiltrating sensitive data and building a DDoS botnet. The experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2017
The CSE CybSec Z-Lab Malware Lab analyzed a couple of new malware samples, belonging to the Bladabindi family, that were discovered on a looking-good website. ZLab team detected two new threats hosted on a looking-good website www[.]6th-sense[.]eu. Both malware looks like a legitimate app that users have to install in order to access the media file hosted on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2017
Experts from Kaspersky have spotted an Android malware dubbed Loapi that includes a so aggressive mining component that it can destroy your battery. Researchers from security firm Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new strain of Android malware dubbed Loapi lurking in fake anti-virus and porn applications, that implements many features, including cryptocurrency mining. Loapi can be used to perform a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2017
Experts from McAfee Labs collected evidence that links DragonFly malware to other hacking campaigns, like BlackEnergy and TeamSpy attacks. On September 6, Symantec published a detailed analysis of the Dragonfly 2.0 campaign that targeted dozens of energy companies this year. Threat actor is the same behind the Dragonfly campaign observed in 2014. Further analysis conducted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2017
RetDec is the retargetable machine-code decompiler (RetDec) released by the anti-malware firm Avast to boost the fight against malicious codes. The anti-malware company Avast announced the release of retargetable machine-code decompiler (RetDec) as open source in an effort to boost the fight against malicious codes. RetDec, short for Retargetable Decompiler, was originally created as a joint project by the Faculty of Information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2017
It has happened again, several banking Trojan samples have been found on Google Play, this time the malicious code targeted a number of Polish banks. The malware was disguised as seemingly legitimate apps “Crypto Monitor”, a cryptocurrency price tracking app, and “StorySaver”, a third-party tool for downloading stories from Instagram. The malicious code is able to display […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2017
Experts at Malwarebytes warns of a new variant of the macOS OceanLotus backdoor is using an innovative technique to avoid detection, A few years ago the bad actors realized they could use UNICODE characters that looked like English characters to lead unsuspecting victims to malicious websites. Now, they have figured out how to use a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
Cyber espionage is now becoming more sophisticated and widespread both on the international and domestic stages. These are 10 Biggest Cyber Espionage Cases. Cyber spying is now becoming more sophisticated and widespread both on the international and domestic stages. Cyber terrorists can attack you from any place in the world at any time if you […]
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