Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2017
Security researchers at Symantec believed that Shamoon 2 attacks leveraged credentials stolen by hackers of the Greenbug group. A few days ago security experts at Palo Alto Networks have spotted a new strain of the Shamoon 2 malware that was targeting virtualization products. In December malware researchers from Palo Alto Networks and Symantec discovered a new variant of Shamoon, so-called […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2017
Security researchers at the iSwatlab have conducted an analysis of a few methods for the creation of some malicious payloads or shellcodes. This work compares some infamous methods for the creation of malicious payloads or shellcodes. These payloads must be used to create a remote connection between the victim’s machine and the attacker’s machine that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2017
The Spanish law enforcement has arrested an alleged Russian Vxer suspected of developing the infamous Neverquest banking Trojan. Today I report another success of law enforcement, the Spanish police have arrested an alleged Russian Vxer suspected of developing the infamous Neverquest banking Trojan. The malware was developed to target financial institutions across the world. Lisov is suspected of being […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2017
Cisco Security Team has noticed traces of traffic from the dormant Necurs botnet and they are warning of a possible new massive ransomware spam campaign. Security researchers at Cisco Security Team have noticed traces of traffic from the dormant Necurs botnet and they are warning of a possible new massive ransomware spam campaign. “The research […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2017
The US-CERT has issued a warning after the Shadow Brokers hackers have offered to sell what it claims to be an SMB Zero-Day exploit. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning after the Shadow Brokers hacker group has offered to sell what it claims to be an SMB Zero-Day exploit. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2017
Researchers at Malwarebytes have discovered the first Mac malware of 2017, dubbed Quimitchin, that was used against biomedical research institutions. Security experts have spotted the first Mac malware of 2017, dubbed Quimitchin, and it is considered a malicious code not particularly sophisticated and includes some antiquated code. According to the researchers from Malwarebytes, the code has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2017
The infamous Carbanak cybercrime gang is back and is leveraging Google services for command-and-control of its malicious codes. The dreaded Carbanak cybercrime gang is back and is adopting a new tactic for its attacks, it is leveraging Google services for command-and-control of its malware. The criminal organization is named Carbanak cybergang because of the name […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2017
Experts from Heimdal Security warned of a spike in cyber attacks leveraging the popular RIG Exploit kit to deliver the Cerber Ransomware. The RIG exploit kit is even more popular in the criminal ecosystem, a few days ago security experts at Heimdal Security warned of a spike in cyber attacks leveraging the popular Neutrino and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2017
The ShadowBrokers hacking group that broke into the NSA arsenal and stole its hacking tools is signing off, leaving a gift to the security community. The mysterious hacking group calling themselves “The Shadow Brokers” has apparently decided to put an end to their failed attempts to sell exploits and hacking tools they claimed to have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2017
Security experts from Emsisoft spotted a new strain of malware, the Spora ransomware, that allows potential victims to pay for immunity from future attacks. Security experts from Emsisoft spotted a new strain of ransomware dubbed Spora that implements a singular extortion mechanism, it allows potential victims to pay for immunity from future attacks. According to the experts, […]
