Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
VirusTotal announced the availability of a visualization tool, dubbed VirusTotal Graph, designed to help with malware analysis. The VirusTotal Graph should allow investigators working with multiple reports at the same time, to try to pivot between multiple data points (files, URLs, domains and IP addresses). The observation of the connections across different samples of malware could allow investigators to collect more […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2018
Malware researchers at Talos group have discovered a strain of Zeus banking Trojan that abuses the legitimate website of the Ukraine-based accounting software developer Crystal Finance Millennium (CFM). The experts discovered that the version of the ZeuS banking Trojan used in this attack is the 2.0.8.9 that was leaked in 2011. The attack occurred in August […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2018
Security experts at F5 discovered a new Linux Monero crypto-miner botnet dubbed PyCryptoMiner spreading over the SSH protocol. F5 researchers discovered a new Linux crypto-miner botnet dubbed PyCryptoMiner spreading over the SSH protocol. The Monero miner botnet is based on the Python scripting language, it leverages Pastebin as command and control server infrastructure when the original C&C isn’t available. If all C&C servers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2018
The Necurs botnet made the headlines at year-end sending out tens of millions of spam emails daily as part of massive ransomware campaigns. Necurs was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed it activity in April. The Necurs botnet was used in the past months to push many other malware, including Locky, Jaff, GlobeImposter, Dridex , […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2017
A hacker belonging to the Lurk cybercrime gang admits the creation of WannaCry ransomware and DNC hack on request of intelligence agencies. In an interview to Dozhd TV channel, one of the members of the Lurk crime group arrested in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, Konstantin Kozlovsky, told that he was one of the authors of the dreaded WannaCry ransomware and that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2017
The Italia cyber security expert Marco Ramilli, founder of Yoroi, published an interesting analysis of a quite new InfoStealer Malware delivered by eMail to many International Companies. Attack attribution is always a very hard work. False Flags, Code Reuse and Spaghetti Code makes impossible to assert “This attack belongs to X”. Indeed nowadays makes more sense talking about Attribution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2017
The cybersecurity expert Willem de Groot reported cyber attacks against Magento websites running the popular helpdesk extension ‘Mirasvit Helpdesk.’ de Groot observed attackers sending a message like this to Magento merchants: Hey, I strongly recommend you to make a redesign! Please contact me if you need a good designer! – [email protected] The message contains a specially crafted sender that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2017
Security experts spotted a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware that uses a different extension (.FILE) and a new set of contact emails. Security experts from BleepingComputer discovered a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware that uses a different extension (.FILE) to append to the file names of the encrypted files and uses new contact emails. For example, a file encrypted by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2017
Experts observed cybercriminals are conducting a new malspam campaign to distribute a new variant of the GlobeImposter ransomware According to Lawrence Abrams from BleepingComputer, crooks are conducting a new malspam campaign to distribute a new variant of the GlobeImposter ransomware that appends the “..doc” extension to encrypted files. The malicious messages pretend to have attached photos being sent to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2017
Fancy Bear APT group refactored its backdoor and improved encryption to make it stealthier and harder to stop. The operations conducted by Russian Fancy Bear APT group (aka Sednit, APT28, and Sofacy, Pawn Storm, and Strontium) are even more sophisticated and hard to detect due to. According to a new report published by experts from security firm ESET, the […]
