Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2015
Police body cameras sold by Martel Electronics have been found to be infected with the notorious Conficker worm. Security experts at iPower Technologies while analyzing the body cam designed for police departments manufactured by Martel Electronics, discovered that the cameras were infected. Martel Electronics is US company that design video systems used by law enforcement, including […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2014
Security experts at Sans Institute discovered a worm which exploits the popular Shellshock flaw to compromise QNAP systems in the wild. Experts at Sans Institute have discovered a new series of attacks in the wild exploiting the Shellshock attack code to compromise disk storage systems made by the Taiwan-based QNAP firm. The threat actors used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2014
The security firm AdaptiveMobile has discovered a new variant of Koler ransomware is capable of self-replication via SMS messages. A new strain of the Koler Android ransomware is threatening the mobile industry, the new variant spreads itself via SMSs and holds the victim’s device phone hostage until a ransom is paid. The Koler ransomware were detected by experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2014
One million Android devices in China were infected with an Xshqi SMS worm on August 2, the day the country celebrated Valentine’s Day. Experts at Kaspersky Lab revealed that a malware, dubbed Trojan.AndroidOS.Xshqi.a, infected neatly 500,000 Android devices in just six hours last week in China, but Chinese media provided a more pessimistic estimate declaring that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2014
Experts at AdaptiveMobile discovered a rare Android SMS worm dubbed Selfmite which spreads itself by sending SMS including a malicious link to the contact list. Security researchers at AdaptiveMobile have discovered a rare Android malware dubbed Selfmite that propagates via SMS text messages, the worm in fact sends malicious links to 20 contacts present in the device owner’s address book. Selfmite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2014
Dutch malware detection company RedSocks has issued its first Malware Trend Report related to the malicious code trends observed in the first quarter of 2014. RedSocks, a Dutch malware detection company which provides netflow-based malware detection service, has published its first Malware Trend Report Labs related to the first quarter of 2014. The report provides precious insights into the trends […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2014
After SANS researchers detected self replicating work The Moon is spreading among a number of different Linksys routers, its exploit appeared in the wild. Last week I reported the news related to a vulnerability in Linksys routers that’s being exploited by a new The Moon worm analyzed by the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center. The Moon […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2014
Security researchers at SANS detected a self-replicating malware (dubbed moon worm) is spreading among a number of different Linksys routers. Researchers at the SANS Institute discovered a new self-replicating worm that is infecting different Linksys home and small business routers. The investigation started after an Internet service provider in Wyoming noted an unusual network traffic and decided to alert SANS. The SANS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2013
Symantec security experts have discovered a new Linux worm that was designed to target the “Internet of things” infecting Intel x86-powered Linux devices. Symantec security experts have detected across a worm that exploits various vulnerabilities in PHP to infect Intel x86-powered Linux devices. Home internet kits with x86 chips are exposed to the risk of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2012
Article Published on The Hacker New Magazine – June Edition “Malware” With the term malware we refer a heterogeneous family of malicious software designed with the purpose to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain unauthorized access to victims systems. With the term we indicate in fact several types of malicious code such as computer […]
