Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2015
Eataly NYC confirmed that New York retail location has been victim of a security incident, hackers used a PoS malware to steal customers’s card data. The Italian food market Eataly has confirmed a data breach occurred earlier this year. According investigators the data breach could have exposed data related to payment cards over a four-month period. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2015
A new malicious phishing campaign is spreading CryptoWall ransomware in the wild, the expert Michael Fratello has analyzed it for us. Just a reminder to all — CryptoWall 3.0 is still very much active, with phish tactics that I think are less effective, but who knows; maybe they’re seeing great success with this method. Â Personally, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2015
The APWG Global Phishing Survey 2H2014 seeks to understand what the phishers are doing, and how, by quantifying the scope of the global phishing problem. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has published the “Global Phishing Survey 2H2014“, a report that comes with some interesting numbers on phishing activities. The Global Phishing Survey 2H2014 report states […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2015
ThreatConnect has conducted further investigations on the Rombertik malware and traced a malicious sample they analyzed to a Nigeria-based man. Lately Rombertik have been making the headlines of security related news, I wrote on SecurityAffairs about the malware a few weeks ago, last update from security researchers at ThreatConnect is that a new analysis traced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2015
Security experts discovered a new njRat campaign using old tactics, making use of compromised websites as a third layer, communication proxy. A recent post published on http://blog.0x3a.com/ it was described a new njRat campaign using old tactics, making use of compromised websites as a third layer, communication proxy. Using FakeAV tactics was in vogue some years […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2015
The use of malicious Chrome extensions in the criminal ecosystem, so Google decided to restrict the use of extensions not available on the Chrome Web Store. The use of malicious Chrome extensions in the criminal ecosystem, so Google decided to restrict the use of extensions not available on the Chrome Web Store. With new policies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2015
Allegedly, the author of the “Locker” ransomware has uploaded a dump of the C2 server database, releasing private keys of infected hosts to the public. Allegedly, the author of the “Locker” ransomware has uploaded a dump of the C2 server database, releasing private keys of infected hosts worldwide to the public. The “author” claims that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2015
New revelations came after a high-profile defector warns of that North Korea’s cyber army has the capability to run cyber attacks that could cause loss of human lives. According to an exclusive report by Reuters, The US was attempting without success to interfere with the nuclear programme of Pyongyang, in the same way it has done with Iran … SCADA systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2015
The cyber security expert Michael Fratello has made a detailed analysis of the locker ransomware that implements a unique delivery mechanism On May 25th, 2015, a wave of reports came flooding in from users around the globe, claiming that their computers have become compromised. Messages from users looking for help began appearing on forums such […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2015
The authors of the popular Angler exploit kit integrated an exploit for a Flash Player flaw fixed by Adobe just a couple of weeks ago. The creators of the popular Angler exploit KIT are known for being quick in integrating and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities, this time they added an exploit related with the Flash player, […]
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