Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2017
Security Experts at Arbor Networks have spotted a new banking trojan, initially called ‘Matrix Banker’, that is targeting Latin America. Malware researchers at Arbor Networks have spotted a new banking trojan, initially called ‘Matrix Banker’, that is targeting Latin America. The malicious code seems to be still under development, most of the victims were located […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2017
Malware researchers at the security firm Securify have published a detailed analysis of the Marcher Android banking Trojan. Security experts at the Securify have published a detailed analysis of the Marcher Android banking Trojan, a threat that has been around since late 2013. First variants of the malware were developed to trick users into handing over their payment card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2017
Zscaler experts have found in the wild a fake version of the Super Mario Run Android App that could install the Android Marcher banking trojan. Bad news for mobile gamers, security experts at Zscaler have spotted a strain of the Android Marcher Trojan masqueraded as the recently released Super Mario Run mobile game for Apple’s iOS. Marcher is a sophisticated banking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2016
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new Android Trojan, dubbed Switcher, that targets routers in order to change their DNS settings. Malware researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new Android Trojan, dubbed Switcher, that targets routers and changes their DNS settings in order to redirect traffic to malicious websites. The Switcher Trojan has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2016
Cisco Talos and Flashpoint have teamed up to analyze the Floki Bot, a Zeus-based banking Trojan that is rapidly evolving in the cybercrime underground. Security researchers from Cisco Talos and Flashpoint have conducted an investigation of the Floki Bot in a joint effort. The Floki bot is a banking Trojan based on Zeus that has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2016
Security researchers at the security firm Doctor Web have spotted a new Linux backdoor dubbed Linux.BackDoor.FakeFile.1 in the wild. Security firms continue to observe an increasing number of malware specifically designed to target Linux-based systems. Linux, like any other Operating System, could be infected by malicious codes designed to compromise the hosts and gain the control over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2016
The Linux Trojan Linux.PNScan is back and it is actively targeting routers based on x86 Linux in an attempt to install backdoors on them. Yesterday I wrote about a new Linux Trojan dubbed Linux.Rex.1, a new Linux malware that is capable of self-spreading and creating a peer-to-peer botnet, now experts from Malware Must Die discovered a new strain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2016
Delilah is the first extortion trojan that spies on victims and collects information to force them in doing malicious activities from inside. Delilah is a strain of malware developed to extort victims into stealing insider data, it was first discovered on crime forums by the Israeli intelligence firm Diskin Advanced Technologies. Deliah is not distributed in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2016
USB Thief, the new USB-based data-stealing Trojan discovered by ESET that relies on USB devices in order to spread itself and infect also air-gapped systems Security researchers at ESET have discovered a new insidious data-stealer, dubbed USB Thief (Win32/PSW.Stealer.NAI), that relies on USB devices in order to spread itself. USB Thief is able to infect […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2016
Malware researchers at the Dr Web firm have found an Android malware named Gmobi specifically designed to spread as a software development kit (SDK). Malware researchers at security firm Dr.Web have detected a new strain of malware that was specifically designed to spread as a software development kit (SDK) used by software developers and mobile device […]
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