Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2018
The Justice Department announced an effort to disrupt the VPNFilter botnet of hundreds of thousands of infected home and office (SOHO) routers and other networked devices under the control of a Russia-linked APT group. Yesterday Talos and other security firm revealed the discovery of a huge botnet tracked as VPNFilter composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2018
A North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Sun Team has targeted North Korean deflectors with a malicious app that was published in the official Google Play store. A North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Sun Team has targeted North Korean deflectors with a malicious app that was published in the official Google Play store. The campaign, named RedDawn by security experts at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2018
Roaming Mantis malware initially targeting Android devices, now has broadened both its geographic range and its targets. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab discovered that the operators behind the Roaming Mantis campaign continue to improve their malware broadening their targets, their geographic range and their functional scope. Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2018
Crook faces up to 35 years in prison for operating the popular Scan4You counter anti-virus (CAV) website that helped malware authors to test the evasion capabilities of their codes. Scan4You is a familiar service for malware developers that used it as a counter anti-virus (CAV). Scan4You allowed vxers to check their malware against as many […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2018
Cisco Talos researchers have spotted a new variant of Telegrab malware designed to collect information from the Desktop version of the popular messaging service Telegram. Security experts from Cisco Talos group have spotted a new strain of malware that is targeting the desktop version of end-to-end encrypted instant messaging service Telegram. We all know that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2018
Mysterious hackers ingenuously reveal two zero-days to the security community, experts collaborated to promptly fix them. Anton Cherepanov, security expert form ESET researcher, discovered two zero-days while analyzing a malicious PDF, according to the researcher the mysterious hacker(s) were still working on the exploits. The malicious PDF was discovered late in March 2018 (Two suspicious PDF samples zero-day […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2018
Dutch Government plans to phase out the use of Kaspersky solutions while the security firm confirmed that its code infrastructure is going to move to Switzerland. The antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab made the headlines again, the company confirmed that its code infrastructure is going to move to Switzerland. The news arrives just after the comment from the Netherlands […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2018
Security firm F5 detailed recently discovered campaigns leveraging the Panda Banker malware to target financial institution, the largest one aimed the banks in the US. Researchers at security firm F5 recently detected several campaigns leveraging the Panda Banker malware to target financial institution, the largest one aimed the banks in the US. In March, security researchers at Arbor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2018
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 Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·     European Central Bank announced a framework for cyber attack simulation on financial firms […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2018
An Ubuntu user has spotted a Bytecoin cryptocurrency miner hidden in the source code of an Ubuntu Snap Pack in the Official Ubuntu Snap Store. An Ubuntu user that goes online with the GitHub moniker “Tarwirdur” has discovered a malware in the source code of an Ubuntu snap package hosted on the official Ubuntu Snap Store, a […]
