Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2018
A new crimeware kit dubbed the Rubella Macro Builder is rapidly gaining popularity in the cybercriminal underground, experts already spotted its malware in the wild. A new crimeware kit dubbed the Rubella Macro Builder is rapidly gaining popularity in the cybercriminal underground. The Rubella Macro Builder allows crooks to generate a malicious payload for social-engineering […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2018
Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted spam campaigns delivering XTRAT and DUNIHI Backdoors and Loki malware bundled with the Adwind RAT. Malware researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a spam campaign that delivers the infamous Adwind RAT (aka jRAT) alongside the XTRAT backdoor (aka XtremeRAT) and the Loki info stealer. In a separate Adwind RAT spam campaign, the researchers observed the use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2018
Researchers at MalwareHunterTeam have discovered a new strain of ransomware called RansSIRIA that encrypts victim’s files and then states it will donate the ransom to Syrian refugees. Unscrupulous cybercriminals try to exploit every situation, even the most dramatic incidents. In the past, crooks attempted to exploits the media attention on dramatic events such as the Boston Marathon, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2018
Threat intelligence firm AlienVault announced the launch of a free endpoint scanning service, called OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter. Threat intelligence firm AlienVault announced the launch of a free endpoint scanning service, called OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter, that allows private firms and security experts to identify threats in their networks. “OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter is a free threat-scanning […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2018
A security researcher has discovered five malicious Ad Blockers extensions in the Google Chrome Store that had been installed by at least by 20 million users. The security researcher Andrey Meshkov, co-founder of Adguard, has discovered five malicious Ad Blockers extensions in the Google Chrome Store that had been installed by at least by 20 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2018
Microsoft announced the new Windows Defender Browser Protection extension that aims to protect them from online threats. Microsoft has a surprise for Chrome users in the Chrome Web Store, it’s the new Windows Defender Browser Protection extension that aims to protect them from online threats. The new extension will help users in avoiding phishing emails, as well as, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2018
After the publication of a working Proof-Of-Concept for Drupalgeddon2 on GitHub experts started observing attackers using it to deliver backdoors and crypto miners. At the end of March, the Drupal Security Team confirmed that a “highly critical” vulnerability (dubbed Drupalgeddon2), tracked as CVE-2018-7600, was affecting Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the availability of security updates on March 28th. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2018
Security experts at CSE CybSec ZLab malware Lab have conducted an interesting analysis of the principal Ransomware-as-a-Service platforms available on the dark web. Over the years, the diffusion of darknets has created new illegal business models. Along with classic illegal goods such as drugs and payment card data, other services appeared in the criminal underground, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2018
According to Channel 2 Action News that investigated the incident, the ransomware attack on the City of Atlanta cost it at least $2.7 million. In the last weeks, I wrote about a massive ransomware attack against computer systems in the City of Atlanta. The ransomware infection has caused the interruption of several city’s online services, including “various internal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
Security researchers at Akamai have discovered a proxy botnet composed of more than 65,000 routers exposed to the Internet via the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. Crooks have compromised the devices of this multi-purpose proxy botnet to conduct a wide range of malicious activities, including spamming and phishing, click fraud, account takeover and credit card […]
