Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2015
Researchers at Trustwave have published the analysis of the Cherry Picker threat, a point-of-sale (PoS) malware that went undetected over the years. A point-of-sale (PoS) malware that went largely undetected for the past several years has been analyzed by researchers at Trustwave. Security experts at Trustwave have analyzed an insidious point-of-sale (PoS) malware dubbed Cherry Picker that threat has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2015
Experts at Cheetah Mobile are warning about Android Tablet pre-loaded with Cloudsota Trojan sold on Amazon and other online stores. Once again electronics equipment from China was offered for sale with pre-installed Trojan. This time, several models of Android tablets sold on Amazon and other online stores are sold with pre-loaded the Cloudsota malware. Cheetah Mobile has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2015
My participation at the World Insight on CCTV discussing the Federal Aviation Administration regulation for the commercial drones. Q1 First of all, the Federal Aviation Administration gave a very compressed timeline. They’re asking a expert panel task force to make registration guideline recommendations by November 20 and these recommendations implemented by mid-December, so that 1 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2015
Security experts at Bitdefender speculate that the newborn Cryptowall 4.0 has a Russian origin. The company released a vaccine software. Security experts at Bitdefender seem to have no doubt, the authors of the last variant of the popular Cryptowall ransomware, Cryptowall 4.0 are Russians. The experts came to this conclusion through evidence collected during their investigations, for example, the servers used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2015
Researchers at Russian antivirus company Doctor Web have discovered a Linux ransomware that has already infected tens of users. Ransomware is a profitable instrument in the criminal ecosystem, security experts discover new variant on a weekly basis. This week the new variant of Cryptowall, the Cryptowall 4.0, appeared in the wild, meanwhile an offline ransomware is targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2015
Rafael Salema Marques, a Brazilian researcher, published a PoC about the existence of Mabouia ransomware, the first ransomware that targets MAC OS X. Imagine this scenario: You received a ransom warning on your computer stating that all your personal files had been locked. In order to unlock the files, you would have to pay $500. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2015
Malware researchers at Check Point Technologies have discovered a new offline ransomware that is targeting mainly Russian users. Malware researchers at Check Point Technologies have spotted a new “offline” ransomware that is targeting Russian users. The principal characteristic of this strain of malware is that it doesn’t need to communicate with a command and control […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2015
Researchers at Lookout firm have come across a new malicious adware family distributed via trojanized versions of popular Android applications. Researchers at mobile security firm Lookout have come across a new malicious adware family distributed via trojanized versions of popular Android applications. Security experts at Lookout have discovered a new strain of adware dubbed Shuanet, which is distributed via […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2015
The fourth member of the CryptoWall family of ransomware, CryptoWall 4.0, has just been released, complete with new features and a brand new look. We recently reported that CryptoWall 3.0 has allegedly caused over $325 million in annual damages. CryptoWall first emerged in April 2014. Its first major upgrade was dubbed CryptoWall 2.0, and first emerged in October […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2015
Security Experts at InfoArmor discovered GovRAT, a malware-signing-as-a-service platform that is offered to APT groups in the underground. In the past, I have explained why digital certificates are so attractive for crooks and intelligence agencies, one of the most interesting uses is the signature of malware code in order to fool antivirus. Naturally, digital certificates […]
