Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2018
TSMC shared further details on the attack and confirmed that its systems were infected with a variant of the infamous WannaCry ransomware. Early in August, a malware has infected systems at several Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) factories, the plants where Apple produces its devices. TSMC is the world’s biggest contract manufacturer of chips for tech giants, including Apple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2018
Fortnite, the most popular game will be soon available for Android users but the Fortnite APK will not be in the Play Store. Fortnite continues to be the most popular game, it is a co-op sandbox survival game developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly. The great success obtained by the Fortnite attracted cyber criminals that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2018
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Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2018
Researchers at CSE Cybsec ZLab analyzed shared published their analysis of the Telegram-based Android RAT tracked as HeroRAT. In June, researchers from security firm ESET discovered a new family of Android Remote Administration Tool (RAT), dubbed HeroRAT, that leverages the Telegram BOT API to communicate with the attacker. The use of Telegram API can be considered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2018
An employee at Amnesty International has been targeted with Israeli surveillance malware, the news was revealed by the human rights group. Amnesty International revealed that one of its employees was targeted with a surveillance malware developed by an Israeli firm. The human rights group published a report that provides details on the attack against its employee. The hacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2018
Google recently removed 145 applications from the official Google Play store because they were found to carry malicious Windows executables inside. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks revealed that Google removed more than 145 apps from the Play store because they were carrying a Windows malware, The apps were uploaded to the Google Play store between October […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2018
The security experts from Sophos have published a report on the multimillion-dollar black market business for crooks, they analyzed the SamSam ransomware case as a case study. The researchers that have tracked Bitcoin addresses managed by the crime gang discovered that crooks behind the SamSam ransomware had extorted nearly $6 million from the victims since December […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2018
New revelations on the attack against COSCO confirm it was worse than initially thought, the ransomware spread beyond the US network. Chinese shipping giant COSCO recently suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted some systems of the company in the United States. The shipping company quickly isolates the systems to avoid propagation to other regions and started […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2018
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new cryptocurrency miner dubbed PowerGhost that can spread leveraging a fileless infection technique. The PowerGhost miner targets large corporate networks, infecting both workstations and servers, it employing multiple fileless techniques to evade detection. “The malware, which we dubbed PowerGhost, is capable of stealthily establishing itself in a system and spreading […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2018
Security experts from FireEye have spotted a new spam campaign leveraging the FELIXROOT backdoor, a malware used for cyber espionage operation. The FELIXROOT backdoor was first spotted by FireEye in September 2017, when attackers used it in attacks targeting Ukrainians. The new spam campaign used weaponized documents claiming to provide information on a seminar on environmental protection efforts. […]
