Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2019
Researchers devised a new technique to hide malware in the security Intel SGX enclaves, making it impossible to detect by several security technologies. Security researchers devised a new technique to hide malware in the security Intel SGX enclaves. Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a technology for application developers that allows protecting select code and data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2019
In the last few days I have done some analysis on malicious documents, especially PDF. Then I thought, “Why not turn a PDF analysis into an article?” Let’s go to our case study: I received a scan request for a PDF file that was reported to support an antivirus vendor, and it replied that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2019
Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB revealed interesting a hidden connection between the AZORult toolkit and specific Gootkit payload. Introduction In the last days, a huge attack campaign hit several organizations across the Italian cyberspace, as stated on bulletin N020219 the attack waves tried to impersonate legit communication from a known Express Courier. However, a deeper analysis by Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB revealed interesting hidden aspects, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2019
Security researcher Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered the first Android cryptocurrency clipboard hijacker impersonating MetaMask on the official Google Play store. The rogue MetaMask app is a Clipboard Hikacker that monitors a device’s clipboard for Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses and replaces them with addresses of wallets under the control of the attacker. Using this trick the attackers can transfers funds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2019
Users of QNAP NAS devices are reporting through QNAP forum discussions of mysterious code that adds some entries that prevent software update. Users of the Network attached storage devices manufactured by QNAPÂ have reported a mystery string of malware attacks that disabled software updates by hijacking entries in host machines’ hosts file. According to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2019
Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of coin miner that targets the Linux platform and installs the XMR-Stak Cryptonight cryptocurrency miner. Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of coin miner that targets the Linux platform and installs the XMR-Stak Cryptonight cryptocurrency miner, researchers observed it killing other Linux malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Can Enterprises execute a GRC Movement? Experts observed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2019
A newly discovered malware campaign leverages steganography to hide GandCrab ransomware in an apparently innocent Mario image. Security experts at Bromium have discovered a malware campaign using steganography to hide the GandCrab ransomware in a Mario graphic package. According to Matthew Rowan, a researcher at Bromium, threat actors use steganography to hide the malicious code and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2019
Yoroi ZLab â Cybaze uncovered a new wave of Ursnif attacks using a variant that implements an exotic process injection technique called AtomBombing Another wave of Ursnif attacks hits Italy. Ursnif is one of the most active banking trojans. It is also known as GOZI, in fact, it is a fork of the original Gozi-ISFB banking Trojan that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2019
Malware researcher Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool a simple but interesting catching tool base on static YARA rules.Malware researcher Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool a simple but interesting catching tool base on static YARA rules.. Iâv been working on cybersecurity for most than 10 years. During my […]
