Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2014
Experts at IBM discovered a new variant of Citadel banking malware which includes different remote management tools to maintain persistence on victims’ PC. Researchers at IBM discovered a new variant of the Citadel banking malware which includes a new interesting feature that allows attackers to maintain persistence in the victim’s machine through remote management tools. Citadel is directly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2014
Security experts at TrendMicro have detected a spam campaign via Twitter which exploits the incident occurred to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. Unfortunately, tragedies like the one occurred to the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 or the recent escalation in Gaza are excellent occasions for cyber criminals that try to exploit the public attention to carry out illegal activities. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2014
Security Experts at Bitdefender report that a new PushDo variant emerged from the underground compromising 11,000 machine in 24 hours. Security experts at BitDefender have recently detected a surge in the number of Pushdo trojan infections analyzing data from e sinkholing of C&C domains used by the malware. The experts discovered that the new Pushdo campaign is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2014
Experts at Trusteer have recently discovered an adv on the Russian underground market regarding a new financial Trojan dubbed Kronos. Russian underground is probably the most prolific market for sale of banking malware, malicious code like Citadel, Zeus, Gozi have infected millions computers worldwide dominating the malware threat landscape. The huge demand for banking trojan is creating the conditions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2014
Experts from Malcovery Security have discovered that the Gameover Zeus botnet is reborn, a new improved version has emerged from the underground. A few weeks ago we have praised a multinational effort for the takeover of the Gameover Zeus botnet, one of the most long-lived and dangerous malicious infrastructure composed by a number of compromised computers ranging from 500,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2014
Security experts at Kasperky Lab has uncovered the Luuuk banking fraud campaign which stolen half a million euros in a single week from a single bank. Experts at Kaspersky Labs discovered new banking Trojan dubbed Luuuk which hit the customers of a single European financial institution. In one week, Luuuk trojan targeted a single European bank, not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2014
Prolexic security and engineering response team has issued a study on the possible uses of Zeus malware, remarking that its success is the versatility. Zeus malware never dies, it seems the title of a film, but the reality goes over the fiction, despite the recent success of law enforcement agencies in the takeover of Gameover […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2014
RSA Security’s FraudAction team released a report on Pandemiya, a new banking Trojan being sold in hacker forums as an alternative to the popular Zeus. RSA Security’s FraudAction team issued a report on Pandemiya, a banking Trojan being proposed in the underground ecosystem as the most effective alternative to the Zeus banking Trojan. Pandemiya Trojan is being sold for as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2014
Security experts at Arbor Networks have discovered a new type of PoS malware called Soraya that implements memory scraping and Web forms grabbing. During 2013 security experts have discovered numerous malware targeting point-of-sale systems, BlackPOS, Dexter and vSkymmer are just some example of malicious code detected in the last 12 months. Researchers at Arbor Networks have discovered a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2014
Which are the security improvements in the critical update proposed by criminal ecosystem for P2P Zeus Botnet? Fortinet experts detected and analyzed it. Security experts at Fortinet have uncovered a critical update proposed by criminal ecosystem for P2P Zeus Botnet. The first P2P Zeus variant was uncovered by Trusteer firm a couple of years ago, it was used […]
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