malware

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2014
Espionage campaign hit embassies of former Soviet states

Security experts at Symantec detected a large-scale cyber espionage campaign which hit personnel at embassies of former Soviet states. Security researchers at Symantec discovered a large-scale cyber attack which is targeting embassies of former soviet states worldwide. The experts detected a huge cyber attack that has been carried out across more than 15 countries, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2014
1million Android devices infected by Xshqi Worm on Chinese Valentine’s day

One million Android devices in China were infected with an Xshqi SMS worm on August 2, the day the country celebrated Valentine’s Day. Experts at Kaspersky Lab revealed that a  malware, dubbed Trojan.AndroidOS.Xshqi.a, infected neatly 500,000 Android devices in just six hours last week in China, but Chinese media provided a more pessimistic estimate declaring that the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2014
Poweliks the persistent malware which doesn’t install any file

Experts at GData discovered Poweliks, a persistent malware able to infect machines without installing any files on the targeted machine. Researchers at GData software have discovered a new surprising strain of malware named Poweliks which is able to infect systems and steals data without installing any file onto the victim’s machine. This malware maintains persistence storing its components […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2014
Disclosed 40 GB of data of FinFisher government spyware related to alleged Gamma hack

A Hacker claims to have hacked the network of Gamma International firm and he has leaked docs related to the malware-for-government FinFisher. Earlier this week the British company Gamma International appears to have been hacked and a collection of files from its systems have been leaked on the Internet. The security firm is popular because it […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2014
FBI infected PCs on a large scale to persecute alleged criminals

A report disclosed by Wired suggests that the FBI is using a malware to identify Tor users by infecting machines on a large scale. It’s not a mystery that usage of the Tor network represents a problem for investigators of law enforcement agencies and for government entities that need to track users on the popular anonymizing network. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2014
IcoScript rat controlled via email services, including Yahoo and Gmail

Experts at the German security firm G-Data discovered a RAT dubbed IcoScript which receives commands from C&C via email services including Yahoo and Gmail. Security experts have detected a new Remote Administration Trojan dubbed IcoScript which is controlled by bad actors through Yahoo Mail and is able to elude detection systems by using seemingly benign domains for […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2014
A new Citadel trojan variant includes different remote management tools to maintain persistence on victims PC

Experts at IBM discovered a new variant of Citadel banking malware which includes different remote management tools to maintain persistence on victims’ PC. Researchers at IBM discovered a new variant of the Citadel banking malware which includes a new interesting feature that allows attackers to maintain persistence in the victim’s machine through remote management tools. Citadel is directly […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2014
Kaspersky report on Energetic Bear – Crouching Yeti APT campaign

The Kaspersky Lab Team has issued a report which includes details of the investigation related to the Energetic Bear – Crouching Yeti APT campaign. Energetic Bear, aka Crouching Yeti, is the recently discovered APT campaign that targeted energy companies, manufacturers, industrial, pharmaceutical, construction, and many IT companies. Security experts have analyzed the Energetic Bear APT campaign, which appears […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2014
Hackers can exploit USB devices to trigger undetectable attacks

A popular security researcher revealed that bad actors can tap into USB Devices to conduct attacks non detectable with known security defenses. Security experts demonstrated that USB devices can be used to compromise personal computers in a potential new type of attacks that evade all actual security protections. Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin’s SR Labs, discovered that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2014
Serious security issues affect 14 of 17 major antivirus engines

Joxean Koret, a security researcher at Singapore-based consultancy COSEINC, has publicly revealed a series of flaws which affect major antivirus engines. The security researcher at Singapore-based consultancy COSEINC, Joxean Koret, has discovered different flaws in 14 of 17 major antivirus engines. The researcher has presented the results of his study (PDF) at the recent SyScan 360 security conference in […]