Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2015
A security researcher discovered a new variant of the Angler exploit kit that includes the exploit code for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player flaw. The French security researcher âKafeineâ has discovered a new variant of the popular Angler exploit kit that includes the exploit code for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2015-8446). Kafeine reported […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2015
The prevalence and effectiveness of top exploit kits (Angler Exploit kit, Nuclear Exploit Kit) found to be very active in-the-wild. Why? The threat landscape today is one that grows in depth and sophistication on a daily basis; however, the prevalence and effectiveness of top exploit kits found to be very active in-the-wild cannot be denied. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2015
Researchers at Trend Micro have issued a new report on the Japanese Cybercrime Underground, a growing criminal community with his characteristics. Cybercrime underground is a growing and prolific industry that knows no crisis as demonstrated by the numerous reports issued by principal security companies and law enforcement. In the past we have analyzed criminal most […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2015
The researchers at Security Intelligence announced that Shifu banking trojan is officially spreading to the UK targeting Banks and Wealth Management Firms. A few weeks ago researchers at Security Intelligence announced the discovery of the sophisticated banking Trojan Shifu, the malicious code has been used to target the customers of more than a dozen Japanese […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2015
Experts at Trend Micro discovered that cyber criminals are exploiting the popular Angler Exploit kit to find and infect PoS systems. The popular Angler Exploit kit is used by criminal crews to find and infect PoS systems, this is the last disconcerting discovery made by the experts at Trend Micro. The security researcher Anthony Joe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2015
A security researcher said that a malvertising campaign could affect as many as 50M users, it affected some popular web sites like Facebook’s Bejewelled Blitz. According to a security researcher at malvertising attack can affect around 50 million users, and hit known social media websites like Facebook. “One of the main features about this attack was its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2015
Experts at Trustwave observed a group of cyber criminals helping spread pro-Russia propaganda by inflating video views with a malvertising campaign. Security experts at Trustwave have discovered a botnet, originally designed for malvertising purpose, used redirect unaware users to view some pro-Russian videos on the website DailyMotion. The event is very interesting due to the political motivation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2015
Invincea has been monitoring the Fessleak campaign in which hackers leveraged Adobe Flash Player exploits and file-less infections to serve ransomware. Security experts from Invincea are investigating on a new Ransomware campaign originated in Russia that presented many interesting characteristics. The researchers discovered that the attacks started by using file-less infections then moved to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2015
Adobe released a security update that fixes also the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2015-0311 discovered by Kafeine in the last release of Angler exploit kit. The French security expert Kafeine has recently discovered an unpatched vulnerability (0day) in Flash Player is being exploited by Angler Exploit Kit. The new variant of the Angler exploit kit that exploit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2015
The French security expert Kafeine has discovered an unpatched vulnerability (0day) in Flash Player is being exploited by Angler Exploit Kit. The Angler exploit kit is one of the most popular crimeware kit and according to the French security researcher Kafeine it was enriched with a fresh Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability. Kafeine has discovered a new variant of the Angler […]
