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Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2015
Kovter trojan patches Flash Player, IE to close the door to other infections

Security researcher discovered a strain of the Kovter trojan that has been updating  Flash Player and Internet Explorer to prevent further infections. The French security expert Kafeine have discovered a new strain of the Kovter malware noticing that the instance of the malicious code he was analyzing was attempting to download the latest version of the Flash […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2015
Adobe issued the update to fix CVE-2015-0311 zero day

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
New Angler exploit kit includes a Flash zero-Day

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2015
CryptoWall 3.0 hides C&C Communications with I2P Anonymity Network

Security Experts at Microsoft discovered a new variant of CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware that adopts I2P Anonymity Network for C&C Communications. A new version of CryptoWall ransomware has been detected in the wild by experts at Microsoft, just a week after I reported that Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group detected a new strain of the same […]