Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2014
The malware specialists at Trend Micro noticed that malicious agent BKDR_VAWTRAK is abusing a Windows feature SRP to prevent victims’ defense systems. Experts at Trend Micro have discovered that Japanese Internet users are being infected by a trojan, dubbed BKDR_VAWTRAK, which uses Windows to try to defeat security software on infected machines. Like many other […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2013
Trend Micro uncovered targeted attack against European and Asian government agencies to steal login credentials from IE and Microsoft Outlook products. A new targeted attack has been uncovered by Trend Micro security experts, the hackers hit European government agencies trying to steal login credentials from Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Outlook. The attackers trying to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2013
Recent studies of principal security firms revealed that phishing activities in the last years have increased exponentially, cybercrime is targeting every sector from industry to government institutions and of course private citizens. RSA’s October Online Fraud Report 2012 confirmed a large increase in phishing attacks, up 19% over the second half of 2011. The total loss […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2013
Exploit kit, a name which has become depressingly familiar, crimaware kit that contains malicious code to exploit principal vulnerabilities in large consume product such as browsers, last news is that a new kit named Whitehole has emerged on the underground market. Generally the exploit kits are malicious Web-based applications designed to install malware on computers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2012
Trend Micro has released the report “3Q 2012 SECURITY ROUNDUP -Android Under Siege: Popularity Comes at a Price” that presents a worrying trend for malware growth increased of 483%. The increment include cyber espionage malware and also destructive malicious agents targeting mainly the mobile world and in particular Google Android platform. Malware targeting Android platform increased […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2012
Today I desire to share with you the results of a study of Trend Micro security firm focused on mobile threat incidents related to the first quarter of 2012. The large diffusion of mobile devices and the leak of awareness on the principal cyber threats have produced an increasing interest of the cybercrimein mobility sector, […]
