Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2019
Emotet is back, its operators leverage a recently introduced spear-phishing technique to deliver their malware, they are hijacking legitimate email conversations. In 2019, security experts haven’t detected any activity associated with Emotet since early April, when researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign distributing a new Emotet Trojan variant that compromises devices and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2019
Trend Micro researchers spotted a piece of Linux cryptocurrency miner, dubbed Skidmap that leverages kernel-mode rootkits to evade the detection. Skidmap is a new piece of crypto-miner detected by Trend Micro that target Linux machines, it uses kernel-mode rootkits to evade the detection. This malware outstands similar miners because of the way it loads malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2019
Experts at ReversingLabs spotted a threat actor buying digital certificates by impersonating legitimate entities and then selling them on the black market. Researchers at ReversingLabs have identified a new threat actor that is buying digital certificates by impersonating company executives, and then selling them on the black market. The experts discovered that digital certificates are then […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2019
A new Android malware has appeared in the threat landscape, tracked as MobiHok RAT, it borrows the code from the old SpyNote RAT. Experts from threat intelligence firm SenseCy spotted a new piece of Android RAT, dubbed MobiHok RAT, that used code from the old SpyNote RAT. At the beginning of July 2019, the experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2019
Cofense experts uncovered a new variant of the Astaroth Trojan that uses Facebook and YouTube in the infection process. Researchers at Cofense have uncovered a phishing campaign targeting Brazilian citizens with the Astaroth Trojan that uses Facebook and YouTube in the infection process. The attach chain appears to be very complex and starts with phishing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! Experts found Joker Spyware in 24 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2019
Security researchers at Fortinet uncovered a malspam campaign aimed distributing the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company. FortiGuard SE Team experts uncovered a malspam campaign aimed distributing the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company. The Lokibot malware has been active since 2015, it is an infostealer that was involved in many malspam campaigns aimed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2019
Another ransomware attack hits a school district, the victim is an institute in Connecticut that was targeted twice in only four months. For the second time in just four months, another the Wolcott school district in Connecticut was a victim of a ransomware attack. Techers and students were not able to access the district’s internal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2019
The European authorities announced to have dismantled Europe’s second-largest counterfeit currency network on the dark web. A joint operation conducted by The Portuguese Judicial Police (Polícia Judiciária) along with with the Europol allowed dismantling Europe’s second-largest counterfeit currency network on the dark web. The authorities announced the arrest of five members of the counterfeit currency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2019
Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Belarusian police have seized and shutdown XakFor, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet. Belarusian police have seized the servers of XakFor (xakfor[.]net), a popular hacking forum a place frequented by hackers, malware authors, scammers and cybercriminals. The news was first reported by the Belarusian news outlet […]
