Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2018
Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni malware that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner. Experts from Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni ransomware family that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner depending upon their configurations. “Way back in 2013 our malware analysts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2018
Israeli military intelligence accused Hamas operatives of creating tainted apps to lure soldiers into downloading spyware onto their phones. According to a report published by the Israeli military, Hamas hackers are attempting to lure Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers into installing tainted apps on their devices. Israeli military already blamed Hamas of similar attacks, but this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2018
Recently experts from Talos security spotted a malware campaign leveraging Smoke Loader to steal credentials from a broad range of applications. Security experts have discovered a new malware campaign leveraging Smoke Loader to steal credentials from web browsers, email clients, and other popular applications. The attack chain starts with messages using a weaponized Word document […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2018
Rainway reported that tens of thousands of Fortnite players have been infected with an adware while downloading fake v-buck generators Fortnite continues to be one of the most popular game and crooks are attempting to target millions of fans in different ways. In June, experts observed cyber criminals attempting to exploit the interest in forthcoming Fortnite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2018
A new variant of the infamous GandCrab ransomware V4 was released during the weekend, experts shared details of the threat, A new version of the dreaded GandCrab ransomware (V4) was released during the weekend and according to the experts it included numerous changes. New #GandCrab version "V4" GANDCRAB V4 Ransomware – Remove and Restore .KRAB […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2018
Microsoft published technical details of 2 zero-days that have been recently discovered after someone uploaded a weaponized PDF file to VirusTotal. Security researchers from Microsoft have published technical details of two zero-day vulnerabilities that have been recently discovered after someone uploaded a weaponized PDF file to VirusTotal. The two issues were addressed by Microsoft with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2018
FireEye reported the PROPagate code injection technique that was observed for the first time in a malware distribution campaign in the wild. Security experts from FireEye have documented the PROPagate code injection technique that was observed for the first time in a malware distribution campaign in the wild. The PROPagate code injection technique was first discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2018
A sample of CryptoCurrency Clipboard Hijackers discovered this week by BleepingComputer monitors for more than 2.3 million addresses. Almost any people that have to send cryptocurrency coins use to copy the recipient wallet address into memory from one application and use it to make the transaction. Crooks’ interest in cryptocurrency continues to grow and new malware was specifically […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2018
The former NSA white hat hacker and malware researcher Patrick Wardle analyzed a new mac malware dubbed OSX.Dummy that targets the cryptocurrency community. The popular experts decided to analyze the malicious code after the security researcher Remco Verhoef (@remco_verhoef) posted an interesting entry to SANS ‘InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog’ titled “Crypto community target of MacOS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2018
Experts from Cisco’s Talos team released a free decryption tool for the Thanatos ransomware to recover the files without paying the ransom. The Thanatos ransomware first appeared in the threat landscape in February when it was discovered by researchers at the MalwareHunterTeam. The experts from Talos believe the malware is being actively developed, it was being distributed […]
