Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2018
The China-linked APT group Leviathan. aka TEMP.Periscope, has increased the attacks on engineering and maritime entities over the past months. Past attacks conducted by the group aimed at targets connected to South China Sea issues, most of them were research institutes, academic organizations, and private firms in the United States. The group has also targeted professional/consulting services, high-tech industry, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2018
According to Check Point report, the authors of the prolific GandCrab ransomware are continuously improving their malware by adopting the AGILE development process. Early February experts at cyber security firm LMNTRIX have discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service dubbed GandCrab. advertised in Russian hacking community on the dark web. The GandCrab was advertised in Russian hacking communities, researchers noticed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2018
RottenSys – A Chinese crime ring is building a huge botnet that is already composed of nearly 5 million Android device. Researchers at Check Point discovered attackers infecting the device with a strain of malware dubbed RottenSys that aggressively display ads on victims’ devices. “The Check Point Mobile Security Team has discovered a new widespread malware family […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2018
Qrypter RAT hits 243 organizations worldwide in February 2018, its popularity in the cybercrime ecosystem continues to increase. A new strain of remote access Trojan dubbed Qrypter RAT (aka Qarallax, Quaverse, QRAT, and Qontroller) hit hundreds of organizations worldwide. The malware was spotted by security firm Forcepoint, it has been around for a couple of years, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2018
Researchers presented findings on a new strain of point-of-sale malware, dubbed PinkKite, that was spotted by security experts at Kroll Cyber Security. A new strain of point-of-sale malware, dubbed PinkKite, was spotted by security experts at Kroll Cyber Security. PinkKite was first discovered in 2017 while the experts were instigating into a large POS malware campaign. PinkKite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2018
According to a new study conducted by American and Czech researchers, the trade of code-signing certificates is a flourishing business. Code-signing certificates are precious commodities in the dark web, according to a new study conducted by American and Czech researchers and Symantec Labs technical director Christopher Gates their trade is a flourishing business. The experts pointed out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2018
Researchers from the ISC SANS group and the Anti-DDoS company Imperva discovered two distinct campaigns targeting Windows Server, Redis and Apache Solr servers online. Last week new mining campaigns targeted unpatched Windows Server, Apache Solr, and Redis servers, attackers attempted to install the cryptocurrency miner Coinminer. Two campaigns were spotted by researchers from the ISC SANS group and the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2018
ESET collected evidence of Hacking Team ‘activity post-hack, the company published an interesting analysis based on post hack samples found in the wild. Security researchers at ESET have spotted in fourteen countries previously unreported samples of the Remote Control System (RCS), the surveillance software developed by the Italian Hacking Team, in fourteen countries. Malware researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2018
According to Citizen Lab, some governments are using Sandvine network gear installed at internet service providers to deliver spyware and cryptocurrency miners. Researchers at human rights research group Citizen Lab have discovered that netizens in Turkey, Egypt and Syria who attempted to download legitimate Windows applications from official vendor websites (i.e. Avast Antivirus, CCleaner, Opera, and 7-Zip) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2018
Slingshot spyware – Security researchers at Kaspersky have spotted a new sophisticated APT group that has been operating under the radar at lease since at least 2012. Security researchers at Kaspersky have spotted a new sophisticated APT group that has been operating under the radar at lease since at least 2012. Researchers tracked the group […]
