Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2011
In recent months we have read many reports related the analysis of the famous malware and different assumptions about its genesis. Who designed the malicious agent? For what purpose? What features of Duqu we know? How can protect our structure from this threat? Let’s approach the questions step by step talking about its origin, on which much has been discussed. Comparing Stuxnet to Duqu Many researcher indicate that Stuxnet is the progenitor of the Duqu, both […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2011
Trusteer Researchers have found a professional calling service that has been designed for cybercriminals needs. The service is organized to offer the extraction of sensitive information needed for bank fraud and identity theft from individuals. The security company Trusteer has discovered an advertisement for making targeted call calls in different languages to private individuals, banks, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2011
Bitdefender reseachers have discovered a number of brute force attacks against several web site. The attacks have been done using a server at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The hacking attack against the MIT.edu infrastructure started with a malicious script on one MIT server. One MIT server (CSH-2.MIT.EDU) hosts a malicious script actively used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2011
Mac malware has been making some headlines in the last few months, as attackers have begun applying to OS X some of the tactics they’ve been using on Windows for decades. Security analysts have discovered several variants of the DevilRobber Mac OS X Trojan, the last one is also able to steal files, installs a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2011
Let me share with you the paper “A study of malicious attacks on Facebook” presented by Robert Sandilands during the event VB2011 that was held from October the 3rd till the 7th in Barcelona, Spain. A well made summary on the main attacks on a social network widely used around the world but also widely […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2011
The Duqu trojan main purpose is to obtain a remote access allowing an adversary to gather information from a compromised computer and of course to download and run arbitrary programs. Duqu malware spotted and identified by experts is based on the same Stuxnet code, however unlike Stuxnet, Duqu does not contain specific code related industrial control systems. […]
