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 19, 2019
Researchers at Guardicore Labs reported that the Smominru botnet is rapidly spreading and now is already infecting over 90,000 machines each month around worldwide. In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. According to the […]
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 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 14, 2019
Researchers at Zscaler have spotted a new malware dubbed InnfiRAT that infects victims’ systems to steal cryptocurrency wallet data. Researchers at Zscaler have discovered a new Trojan dubbed InnfiRAT that implements many standard Trojan capabilities along with the ability to steal cryptocurrency wallet data. “As with just about every piece of malware, InnfiRAT is designed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2019
A new cryptocurrency-mining botnet tracked as WatchBog is heavily using the Pastebin service for command and control (C&C) operations. Cisco Talos researchers discovered a new cryptocurrency-mining botnet tracked as WatchBog is heavily using the Pastebin service for command and control. The WatchBog bot is a Linux-based malware that is active since last year, it targets […]
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 […]
