Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2017
The British security researcher Marcus Hutchins was arrested by the FBI on Thursday after being indicted on charges of creating the Kronos banking malware. The news of the Marcus Hutchins‘s arrest made the headlines, the motivation has shocked the IT sector; the British malware experts who stopped the WannaCry ransomware outbreak was arrested in Las […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2017
The Russian hacker Mark Vartanyan was sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in the development and maintenance of the Citadel botnets. It’s a terrific moment for cyber criminals, law enforcement worldwide continues their fight against illegal activities online and the recent shut down of AlphaBay and Hansa black markets demonstrate it. The news of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2017
Apparently, different cyber gangs are using modified versions of the Nukebot in wild after code Leak occurred in March 2017. Crooks are adapting the leaked source code for the Nukebot banking Trojan to target banks in the United States and France and to steal mail client and browser passwords. Apparently, different cyber gangs are using modified versions of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2017
Threat actors behind the financial trojan TrickBot have been updating its campaigns targeting Payment Processors and CRM Providers. Threat actors behind Banking Trojan TrickBot switched from financial institutions to Payment processors and CRM providers. TrickBot was initially observed in September 2016 by the researchers at security firm Fidelis Cybersecurity, that linked it to the Dyre banking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2017
Experts at Trend Micro observed a spam campaign leveraging the PowerPoint ‘Mouseover’ attack to deliver the Gootkit banking Trojan. Earlier this week, the security expert Ruben Daniel Dodge published an interesting post on a new technique to deliver malware through PowerPoint files leveraging on mouseover events. Now experts at Trend Micro revealed details of a spam campaign they detected in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2017
According to a new analysis conducted by the IBM’s X-Force security team, a new wave of attacks powered by the TrickBot banking Trojan have been targeting private banks in the UK, Australia, and Germany. The researchers observed new redirection attacks focused on new brands, including private banks, private wealth management firms, investment banking, and a retirement insurance and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2017
The source code for a new banking Trojan dubbed Nuclear Bot was leaked online, experts speculate a rapid diffusion of the threat in the wild. The source code for a new banking Trojan, dubbed Nuclear Bot, is available for sale in the cyber criminal underground.The Nuclear Bot banking Trojan first appeared in the cybercrime forums […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2017
Chinese scammers are deploying rogue cellphone towers to spread the Android Swearing Trojan via malicious URL in SMS messages. Chinese scammers are deploying fake mobile base stations to spread the Android Swearing Trojan in text messages. The attackers have improved the well-known Smishing attack using rogue cell phone towers as the attack vector and distribute the Android […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2017
Malware author are using Dridex v4 in the wild, an improved version of the Trojan that includes a new injection method known as AtomBombing. According to researchers with IBM X-Force, vxers have improved the Dridex banking Trojan adding a new injection method for evading detection, the technique is known as AtomBombing. The researchers have spotted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2017
The Spanish law enforcement has arrested an alleged Russian Vxer suspected of developing the infamous Neverquest banking Trojan. Today I report another success of law enforcement, the Spanish police have arrested an alleged Russian Vxer suspected of developing the infamous Neverquest banking Trojan. The malware was developed to target financial institutions across the world. Lisov is suspected of being […]
