Malware

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2017
UK Government links the WannaCry attack that crippled NHS to North Korea

UK Government blamed North Korea for the WannaCry attack that affected a third of English hospitals. “This attack, we believe quite strongly that it came from a foreign state,” Ben Wallace, a junior minister for security, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “North Korea was the state that we believe was involved in this worldwide attack,” […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2017
Bad Rabbit Ransomware leverages the NSA Exploit for lateral movements

Malware researchers at Cisco Talos team discovered the Bad Rabbit Ransomware leverages EternalRomance to propagate in the network. New precious details emerge from the analysis of malware researchers at Cisco Talos and F-Secure who respectively discovered and confirmed the presence an NSA exploit in the Bad Rabbit ransomware. On October 24, hundreds of organizations worldwide were hit by the Bad Rabbit […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2017
Kaspersky: Hackers used backdoored MS Office key-gen to steal NSA exploits

According to Kaspersky, the PC was hacked after the NSA employee installed a backdoored key generator for a pirated copy of Microsoft Office. More details emerge from the story of the hack of the Kaspersky antivirus that allowed Russian intelligence to stole secret exploits from the personal PC of the NSA staffer. The PC was […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2017
CSE Malware ZLab – Preliminary analysis of Bad Rabbit attack

We at the CSE Cybsec ZLab have conducted a preliminary analysis of the Bad Rabbit ransomware discovering interesting aspects of the attack. This is just the beginning of a complete report that we will release in the next days, but we believe our findings can be useful for the security community. This malware remembers the notorious NotPetya basically […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2017
Bad Rabbit ransomware rapidly spreads, Ukraine and Russia most targeted countries

A new strain of malware dubbed Bad Rabbit ransomware has been found rapidly spreading in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere. A new massive ransomware campaign is rapidly spreading around Europe, the malware dubbed Bad Rabbit has already affected over 200 major organizations mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Japan, and Turkey in a few hours. The Bad Rabbit ransomware has infected […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2017
Latest Russia-linked APT28 campaign targeting security experts

Russian cyber espionage group APT28 targeted individuals with spear-phishing messages using documents referencing a NATO cybersecurity conference. Researchers with Cisco Talos have spotted a Russian cyber espionage group targeting individuals with spear-phishing messages using documents referencing a NATO cybersecurity conference. Experts attributed the attack to the dreaded Russian APT28 group, aka Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Group 74, Sednit, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2017
Exclusive – CSE ZLab experts spotted a new Wonder botnet in the wild

The CSE CybSec Z-Lab Malware Lab spotted a new botnet, dubbed Wonder botnet, while it was investigating malicious code in the dark web. While investigating the malicious code in the dark web, ZLab experts discovered a “NetflixAccountGenerator.exe” that promises to generate a premium account for Netflix services for free. Unfortunately, the software downloaded does not […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2017
AhMyth Android RAT, another open source Android RAT Tool available on GitHub

The source code of a new Android Remote Administration Tool is available on GitHub, it is dubbed AhMyth Android RAT. You just have to download and test it. The source code of a new Android Remote Administration Tool is available on GitHub, it is dubbed AhMyth Android RAT. The malicious code is still in beta version, the AhMyth Android RAT […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2017
Proton malware spreading through supply-chain attack, victims should wipe their Macs

The dreaded Proton malware was spreading through a new supply-chain attack that involved the Elmedia apps, victims should wipe their Macs Bad news for Mac users, a new malware is threatening them of a complete system wipe and reinstall. Crooks are distributing the malware in legitimate applications, the popular Elmedia Player and download manager Folx developed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2017
Assemblyline – Canada’s CSE intelligence Agency releases its malware analysis tool

Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) intel agency has released the source code for one of its malware analysis tools dubbed Assemblyline. The Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) intelligence agency has released the source code for one of its malware detection and analysis tools dubbed Assemblyline. The Assemblyline tool is written in Python and was developed under the […]