Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2016
Researchers from Buguroo discovered new Gozi campaigns using new techniques that targeted many banks and financial services worldwide. The Gozi malware was first spotted in 2007, its source code has been leaked twice in the criminal underground allowing the creation of new sophisticated version. Recently security experts from the IBM X-Force Research spotted a new threat dubbed GozNym […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2016
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $34 million in funding to projects aimed at the protection of power grid from cyber attacks. A cyber attack against a critical infrastructure is an event that government doesn’t exclude, for this reason, one of the pillars of their cyber strategy is the adoption of countermeasures to improve their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2016
According to Kaspersky experts Brazilian crooks have made an important addition to their malware leveraging on the PowerShell. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a sophisticated banking trojan targeting Brazilian users. The threat, codenamed Trojan-Proxy.PowerShell.Agent.a, leverages on the Microsoft’s PowerShell utility. It is considered one of the most complex Brazilian malware samples discovered since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2016
A malware researcher has analyzed the attachments of in the WikiLeaks email dumps and discovered more than 300 pieces of malware. WikiLeaks has published more than 300 pieces of malicious code among its caches of dumped emails. Dr Vesselin Bontchev (@bontchev), a top Bulgarian malware researcher, has analyzed documents published by the organization and detected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2016
Malware researchers at FireEye security firm have spotted a new Locky ransomware campaign mainly targeting the healthcare sector. Security experts from FireEye have spotted a Locky ransomware campaign mainly targeting the healthcare sector, Telecom and Transportation industries. Attackers launched a massive phishing campaign to deliver the threat. The campaign bit organizations worldwide, mostly in the US, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2016
Customers of Cisco and Fortinet security firms need to patch their products to fix the flaws exploited by the Equation Group exploits and hacking tools. While security experts are analyzing the hacking tools leaked in the data dump by the Shadow Brokers, security firms are working to fix the vulnerabilities exploited by the Equation Group toolsets. Both […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2016
The NSA-linked unit The Equation Group has been hacked and a data dump containing exploits and tools has been leaked online. Is it legitimate? It is the topic of the moment, the group The Shadow Brokers has hacked the NSA-linked unit the Equation Group and leaked online exploits and hacking tools. The hackers had dumped online […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2016
Security experts from Fidelis firm spotted a new version of the Vawtrak banking Trojan that includes significant improvements such as the SSL pinning. Malware researchers from security firm Fidelis have spotted a new strain of the infamous Vawtrak banking Trojan that leverages on a DGA mechanism to generates .ru domains with a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2016
According to the popular whistleblower Edward Snowden, the hack of the NSA Equation Group may be a Russian response to the US. The public auction of stolen NSA exploits and hacking tools may be the response of the Russian Government to the US Government, which is blaming it for the DNC hack. This is also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2016
A group of hackers claims to have hacked the NSA Equation Group, it is selling hacking tools and exploits in online auction. Security experts discussed several times about potential effects of the militarization of the cyberspace. Government-built malware and cyber weapons may run out of control, cyber weapons and hacking tools developed by nation-state hackers […]
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