Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2016
Experts from Cisco Talos team have improved their decryptor tool to allow the recovery of files encrypted by all the Teslacrypt Ransomware variants In May, criminals behind the TeslaCrypt ransomware leaked online the master encryption key that allowed security experts to develop a decryption tool for the last variant of the threat. âIn surprising end to TeslaCrypt, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2016
Security experts from FireEye have observed attacks leveraging on Angler EK to deliver exploits capable of evading the Microsoft EMET security Tool. Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a free security tool designed by Microsoft to implement a supplemental security layer of defense against the exploitation of vulnerabilities affecting applications running on Windows Systems. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2016
The authors of the TeslaCrypt ransomware have improved it by implementing new sophisticated evasion techniques and targeting new file types. The authors of the TeslaCrypt ransomware have introduced a couple of significant improvements, the new variant Version 4.1 has been in circulation for about a week. According to the experts at Endgame Inc., VXers have invested […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2016
Operators running websites based on the WordPress and Joomla must be aware of a spike in the number of compromised platforms used in Admedia attacks. Not only WordPress CMS, threat actors behind the “Admedia attacks” are now looking with increasing interest to Joomla. This is the discovery made by the experts at the Internet Storm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2016
Operators running websites based on the WordPress must be aware of a spike in the number of compromised platforms used to deliver the TeslaCrypt ransomware. Administrators running websites based on the popular WordPress CMS must be aware of a spike in hacks that are resulting in the silent delivery of ransomware to the visitors. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2016
The victims of the infamous TeslaCrypt ransomware can now rejoice, there is a free tool to decrypt files encrypted by TeslaCrypt and TeslaCrypt 2.0 TeslaCrypt is one of the most insidious ransomware first detected in the wild in 2015, today I have a good news for its victims. TeslaCrypt was first detected in February 2015, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2015
A security researcher discovered a new variant of the Angler exploit kit that includes the exploit code for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player flaw. The French security researcher âKafeineâ has discovered a new variant of the popular Angler exploit kit that includes the exploit code for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2015-8446). Kafeine reported […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2015
Heimdal Security published an interesting post on the increase in malicious scripts that are being injected into legit websites in order to serve ransomware. Heimdal Security recently published an interesting blog post on the increase in malicious scripts that are being injected into legit websites in order to serve malware. The attackers compromise websites running […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2015
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new strain of TeslaCrypt ransomware, version 2.0, Â which was improved in a significant way. Malware researchers at Kaspersky detected a new strain of the TeslaCrypt ransomware (Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Bitman.tk), so-called TeslaCrypt 2.0, which includes a number of improvements. This ransomware also encrypts video game files, but the most significant improvement […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2015
AlphaCrypt ransomware is a new type of ransomware has been detected by security expert in the wild. The malware is delivered via Angler Exploit kit. Ransomware is among most popular malware families in the criminal underground, recently security firms have discovered numerous variant targeting desktop and mobile platforms. Recently a new strain of ransomware dubbed […]
