Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2018
Talos Team have uncovered a “highly targeted” campaign leveraging a mobile malware distributed through a bogus MDM service Security experts from Talos Team have uncovered a “highly targeted” campaign leveraging a mobile malware that has been active at least since August 2015. The researchers believe that cyberspies are operating from China and they found spying […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2018
Hackers have compromised the website of VSDC, (http://www.videosoftdev.com), a popular company that provides free audio and video conversion and editing software. Experts from Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Total Security discovered that attackers hijacked the download links of the popular audio and video editor, VSDC. The experts discovered that hackers hijacked download links on the websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2018
Hackers have poisoned the Arch Linux PDF reader package named “acroread” that was found in a user-provided Arch User Repository (AUR), Hackers have poisoned the Arch Linux PDF reader package, this means that users who have downloaded recently a PDF viewer named “acroread” may have been compromised. ThePDF reader package has been tainted with a malware and Arch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2018
An expert found evidences that demonstrate the current distributed LokiBot malware samples were “hijacked” by a third actor. According to the researcher who goes online by the Twitter handle “d00rt,” samples of the LokiBot malware samples being distributed in the wild are modified versions of the original sample. I just released an article where are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2018
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
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 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
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
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
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 […]
