Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2016
Security Experts at Bleeping Computer have discovered a new adware dubbed Faster Internet that takes a screenshot of victims’ computers. Security Experts at Bleeping Computer have spotted a new strain of adware, known as Faster Internet, that takes a screenshot of victims’ PCs. Lawrence Abrams, a computer security expert at Bleeping Computer, explained in a blog post […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2016
Experts at Malwarebytes observed a new attack pattern that relies on fake social button plugin that redirects visitors to Angler Exploit Kit. Cyber criminals continue to use compromised websites to serve malware or to redirect visitors to domains hosting exploit kits. Experts at Malwarebytes observed a new attack pattern that relies on a domain name to lure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2016
A new threat is appeared in the wild it is the JIGSAW ransomware that slowly deletes your files as you shilly-shally to pay the ransom. A new crypto-malware has appeared in the wild, its name is JIGSAW ransomware. The BitcoinBlackmailer.exe explains JIGSAW ransomware will encrypt your files adding ‘.FUN’ extension. The author, in the Saw-movie […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2016
State-sponsored actors in Asia have been leveraging fileless RAT for their hacking campaigns in order to avoid the detection. Security experts from SentinelOne spotted nation-state actors in Asia running espionage campaigns relying on fileless Remote Access Trojan. The state-sponsored hackers were injecting the RAT payload directly into the memory of the target host in order to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2016
According to a research conducted by IBM the healthcare industry was a privileged target of cybercriminals last year, more than 100M Records Compromised. The healthcare industry was the number one target of cybercriminals in 2015, new research indicates. Previously, the banking industry held the top position. In 2015, more than 100 million healthcare records were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2016
The former NSA expert Patrick Wardle has designed RansomWhere, a free ransomware detection tool for the protection of Mac OS X systems. The number of Ransomware-based attacks has risen in a dramatic way, every week the criminal underground community is presenting new threats with improved features that are causing significant economic losses to every industry. Everyday security experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2016
The authors of the TeslaCrypt ransomware have improved it by implementing new sophisticated evasion techniques and targeting new file types. The authors of the TeslaCrypt ransomware have introduced a couple of significant improvements, the new variant Version 4.1 has been in circulation for about a week. According to the experts at Endgame Inc., VXers have invested […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2016
According to Google, Google is a ‘partially dangerous’ website because some pages on google.com contain deceptive content. According to Google’s online transparency report, Google’s main search engine is a “partially dangerous” website. The company has advised that people should exercise caution when using it. The search engine could attempt to steal the personal information of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2016
FireEye has discovered a new strain of POS malware dubbed Multigrain that steals card data from point-of-sale systems and exfiltrates it over DNS. Security experts at FireEye have spotted a new strain of the NewPosThings PoS malware, dubbed Multigrain, that steals payment card data from point-of-sale (PoS) systems and exfiltrate it via DNS to avoid detection. The technique is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2016
US prosecutors confirmed on Thursday that an American firm lost nearly $100 million in a BEC (business email compromise) scam. The Reuters Agency reported that an unidentified American company was the victim of a clamorous email fraud, scammers have stolen from the firm nearly $100 million. According to the US authorities, fraudsters used a fake […]
