malware

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2015
New GamaPoS Malware served by the Andromeda Botnet

The experts at Trend Micro discovered GamaPoS, a new PoS malware that is spread through the Andromeda botnet in the US and Canada. GamaPoS is the name of the last PoS malware used by criminal crews to steal credit card data from the memory of payment systems. Security experts at Trend Micro discovered which discovered the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2015
FBI paid Hacking Team to identify Tor users

Documents leaked online after the Hacking Team data breach revealed that the company supported the FBI in the investigation on Tor users. While the security experts are continuing to analyze the impressive amount of data stolen from the Hacking Team, new revelation are circulating over the Internet. Among the clients of the Italian security firm, there […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2015
Law enforcement arrested dozens people from Darkode crime forum

An international joint effort of law enforcement allowed the arrest of dozen people active on the popular Darkode crime forum. A joint operation run by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in Europe and Brazil have allowed the identification and the arrest of more than 60 people suspected of carrying out hacking crimes. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2015
Hacking Team Spyware uses a UEFI BIOS Rootkit to gain persistence

Documents leaked online after the Hacking Team hack revealed that the company used a UEFI BIOS rootkit to gain persistence for its spyware software. The recent data breach suffered by the surveillance firm Hacking Team is shocking the IT security industry, the hackers leaked company emails, source codes and contracts revealing uncomfortable truths. Security experts mainly […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2015
Hacking Team will be back to business soon

The Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti announced that the popular surveillance company will be back to business vert soon, but experts have many doubts. After the embarrassing data breach suffered by the Hacking Team, the surveillance company plans to rebuild the “empire”. The hackers likely haven’t stolen the entire intellectual property of the firm, which […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 14, 2015
Seaduke, another weapon in the Duke arsenal

Security researchers at Symantec have analyzed Seaduke, a sophisticated Trojan used by threat actors behind the “Duke” malware family. Security experts at Symantec security firm have analyzed the Trojan.Seaduke, a malware that was used by the APT group behind the Duke espionage campaigns that targeted numerous government organizations worldwide. The Seaduke has many similarities with other […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 14, 2015
Hacking Team, the third Flash Zero-Day is out: CVE-2015-5123

Following the Hacking Team data breach, the security researchers discovered the third Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability. A third Adobe Flash Player zero-day has been discovered since the HackingTeam breach. Thanks to the breach of the Hacking Team‘s private files, the third Adobe Flash zero-day has been made publicly accessible. “After two Adobe Flash player zero-days disclosed […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2015
Hacking Team Another Flash Zero-Day: CVE-2015-5122

Following the Hacking Team data breach, yet another Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability has been found actively exploited in-the-wild. Another Flash Zero-Day: CVE-2015-5122 Yet another Adobe Flash Player zero-day has been found actively exploited in-the-wild. Thanks to the breach of the HackingTeam’s private files, another Adobe Flash zero-day has been made publicly accessible and hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2015
A new Zero-Day Vulnerability arises from Hacking Team hack

Security Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a second Zero-Day Vulnerability that arises from Hacking Team cyber attack. Just Three days ago, Adobe released a new version of Flash to patch the zero-day vulnerability that was disclosed as part of the Hacking Team hack. Security experts at Trend Micro confirmed that the Adobe Flash vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2015
Sophos discovered new tricks to poison Google Search engine

Hackers are using a new search engine poisoning method to circumvent Google’s page ranking-algorithms, the technique relies on PDF documents. Researchers from Sophos discovered the new search poisoning method used to circumvent cloaking-detection mechanisms implemented by Google. The experts found hundreds of thousands of unique PDF documents per day implementing the poisoning technique. The term cloaking indicates the […]