Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2017
Given the high trust we have on Gmail we tend to believe that all messages that fall into our inbox are legit and safe, but there is something to know … 1.    Introduction Taking good care of e-mail messages is certainly among the first recommendations of any information security policy and user awareness program. The involved […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2016
Authorities identified a man in Florida that powered spamming campaigns abusing an army of corporate servers and private email accounts. Spam is still a profitable business for crooks and to give you an idea of how the cyber criminals work let share with you the story of the leader of a spamming gang. Timothy Livingston (31), […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2016
Symantec observed a significant increase in the number of email-based attacks using malicious Windows Script File (WSF) attachments. Experts from Symantec are observing a significant increase in the number of email-based attacks leveraging malicious Windows Script File (WSF) attachments. Â Over the past three months, threat actors have adopted the tactic in the wild, mostly criminal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2016
Which are principal cities hostages of malicious botnets? Symantec has tried to reply the difficult questions with an interesting study. It is not a mystery, there is a strict link between cybercrime and Geography. Cyber criminal organization used different tactics and offer different products depending on the country where they operate. Russian criminal communities specialize in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2016
Necurs botnet, the monster is resurrected. Banking Trojans and Ransomware propagated via spam is bring backing the high-volume spam campaign Botnets are like monsters that surface back after some period of inactivity, this time, the monster it the dreaded Necurs botnet. The Necurs Botnet is one of the worldâs largest malicious architectures, used to spread the dreaded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2016
Security firm Certego has been detecting multiple viral spam campaigns leveraging a new malware evasion technique it called BadEpilogue. Starting from May 2016, Certego Threat Intelligence platform has been detecting multiple viral spam campaigns using a new evasion technique. These attacks are able to hide malicious attachments inside a specific area of the MIME/Multipart structure and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2016
The Euro 2016 will be held in June in France and online fraudsters already started launching football-themed spam campaigns on the event. <img height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=”” style=”display:none” src=”https://www.facebook.com/tr?ev=6037454831409&cd[value]=0.00&cd[currency]=RUB&noscript=1″ /> Major events such as the Euro 2016 represent a great opportunity for criminal organizations. In conjunction with international football tournaments such as the World Cup and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2016
Experts at CloudFlare revealed that 94 percent of the Tor traffic they see is âper se malicious,â but Tor Project opposes it. The experts from the Content delivery network (CDN) CloudFlare revealed that 94 percent of the Tor traffic they ordinary see is âmalicious.â It is not a mystery that Tor is becoming a favored tool of cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2015
Security experts discovered a new njRat campaign using old tactics, making use of compromised websites as a third layer, communication proxy. A recent post published on http://blog.0x3a.com/ it was described a new njRat campaign using old tactics, making use of compromised websites as a third layer, communication proxy. Using FakeAV tactics was in vogue some years […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2015
The sophisticated Mumblehard spamming malware infects thousands of Linux and FreeBSD servers going under the radar for at least five years. In the last seven months, several thousand Linux and FreeBSD machines have been infected with a sophisticated malware dubbed Mumblehard. The infected machines were part of a botnet used, in the last five years, to […]
