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Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2014
Bad Actors rebuild from scratch the Gameover Zeus Botnet

Experts at Arbor networks discovered a new variant of GameOver Zeus Botnet which implement DGA scheme. Recently law enforcement agencies have taken down the GameOver Zeus botnet with a multinational effort, but a few weeks later, researchers at Seculert spotted a new variant in the wild, which implements a domain generation algorithm.Investigators from FBI and Europol […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2014
Geodo, the banking trojan with email self-spreading feature

Security researchers from Seculert firm have discovered a variant of the Cridex banking worm, dubbed Geodo, which spreads itself through email. In the last months a significant number of banking trojans have been proposed by cyber criminal ecosystem, from EMOTET to Dyreza, criminals have used a wide casuistry of techniques to deceive bank customers. The primary purpose of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2014
Israeli Defense computer hacked via spear phishing attack

Aviv Raff, CTO at Seculert, confirmed that the attackers have penetrated into the network of Israeli Defense accessing to 15 computers. Israeli Defense is another illustrious victim of spear phishing attack, just on Friday Microsoft suffered a similar attack and attackers breached the email accounts of its staff accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Reuters agency […]