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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2015
According to a German website, there is a new strain of ransomware dubbed Chimera that also threatens to publish personal data on the Internet. A new strain of ransomware is targeting German companies, it is named Chimera and this time crooks don’t limit their extortion scheme to the file encrypting, they are also threatening victims […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2015
Victims of CoinVault ransomware can now rely on a new set of encryption keys added to the free CoinVault Ransomware Decryptor tool to recover their files. Every day, dozens of users ask me how to decrypt their data locked by various ransomware such as CoinVault or Bitcryptor? Now I have a good news for them, […]
