Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2015
Motherboard published an interesting report on an espionage campaign led by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) against the opponents of the Syrian Government. Today I decided to present a very interesting story published by Lorenzo Francesco Bicchierai on Motherboard. It is a story about intelligence activities and how hacking supported them. Let’s start from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2015
The international criminal police organisation Interpol and private researchers discovered a severe flaw in block chain used by virtual currencies. INTERPOL cyber threat researchers, including members of the Kaspersky Lab, have identified a serious vulnerability in the virtual currencies schema. The flaw resides in the ‘block chain’ related to virtual transactions and it could be exploited to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2015
Security experts from IBM discovered a very sophisticated malware campaign based on the Dyre Trojan to hack Corporate Bank Accounts. IBM has uncovered an important cyber criminal operation dubbed The Dyre Wolf due to the name of the popular Dyre malware used crooks. The Dyre malware was discovered in the wild by several security firms, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2015
Researchers at Trend Micro spotted a 64-bit variant of NewPosThings PoS malware designed to steal payment card and other sensitive data. Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new strain of the NewPosThings point-of-sale (PoS) malware. The new variant of NewPosThings malware is a 64-bit version of NewPosThings, a point-of-sale (PoS) malware discovered by experts at Arbor Networks in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2015
Symantec has discovered a cyber espionage campaign targeting energy companies around the world by infecting them with a new malware dubbed Laziok trojan. Security experts at Symantec have uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign that targeted the energy industry. The threat actors behind the campaign used uses a custom-developed malware dubbed Laziok trojan to exfiltrate sensitive data from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2015
Cybercriminals have been leveraging a vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin to redirect the visitors of thousands of websites to exploit kits, a researcher has warned. Security experts at Germany’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-Bund) and Yonathan Klijnsma reveals that at least 3,000 websites have been compromised by attackers exploiting a known vulnerability in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2015
Israeli Researchers have defined a new exfiltration technique dubbed BitWhisper that is based on the heat emissions and built-in thermal sensors. According researchers at the Ben Gurion University in Israel, by detecting the heat from one computer to an adjacent computer, is possible to establish a channel that can claiming can facilitate the spread of keys, malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2015
Security experts at Proofpoint have discovered a new phishing campaign that exploits a Dridex variant that evades detection with AutoClose function. Criminal crews behind the Dridex banking malware are very prolific and are improving the popular malicious code. Recently we have discussed about a Dridex variant which was spread through phishing messages with Microsoft Office documents embedding malicious macros. The attackers exploited social engineering technique to lure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2015
Cisco Security Team has spotted in the wild a new Point-of-Sale malware dubbed PoSeidon that is more sophisticated than previously detected PoS malware. Expert at Cisco have discovered a new Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware dubbed PoSeidon. The experts have discovered many similarities with the popular Zeus Trojan and use sophisticated methods to find card data respect other POS malware like BlackPoS, which was used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2015
Security experts at Trend micro uncovered a new hacking campaign dubbed Operation Woolen Goldfish likely run by a threat actor group known as Rocket Kitten. Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign that is targeting a number of European organisations and businesses. The attackers run a spear phishing campaign that […]
