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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
Group-IB spotted the operations of a Russian-speaking cyber gang tracked as MoneyTaker group that stole as much as $10 million from US and Russian banks. Researchers from security firm Group-IB has spotted the operations of a Russian-speaking cyber gang tracked as MoneyTaker that has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
According to the firm Carbon Black, Android ransomware kits are very popular in the dark web, and the median price range for them hits $200. According to the firm Carbon Black, Android ransomware kits are very popular in the dark web, more than 5,000 Android ransomware kit listings have been discovered in 2017. Even if most ransomware kits are still focused […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2017
A new IoT botnet leveraging the Linux.ProxyM malware is currently being used by crooks in a campaign attempting to hack websites. Security experts at Doctor Web discovered a new IoT botnet leveraging the Linux.ProxyM malware that is currently being used in a campaign attempting to hack websites. Experts first analyzed the Linux.ProxyM in July, it was used to create a proxy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2017
Nearly 5,500 WordPress websites are infected with a malicious script that logs keystrokes and in some loads a cryptocurrency miner in the visitors’ browsers. The experts from security firm Sucuri observed that that malicious script is being loaded from the “cloudflare.solutions” domain, that anyway is not linked with Cloudflare. According to PublicWWW, this malicious script […]
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