After six months from Cyber Threats Trends launch it’s time to check its main findings. When I decided to develop my own Cyber Threats Observatory I was not sure about its effectiveness and I was even more skeptical about the real usage from international cybersecurity communities. Fortunately many students, researchers and professionals used such a […]
Read more "Cyber Threats Trends 6 Months Of Findings"Hi Folks, today I want to share a quantitative analysis on a weird return-match by Upatre. According to Unit42 Upatre is an ancient downloader firstly spotted in 2013 used to inoculate banking trojans and active up to 2016. First discovered in 2013, Upatre is primarily a downloader tool responsible for delivering additional trojans onto the […]
Read more "Is upatre downloader coming back ?"Trends are interesting since they could tell you where things are going. I do believe in studying history and behaviors in order to figure out where things are going on, so that every Year my colleagues from Yoroi and I spend several weeks to study and to write what we observed during the past months […]
Read more "Cybersecurity Trends"If you are a credit card holder, this post could be of your interest. Defending our financial assets is always one of the top priorities in the cybersecurity community but, on the other side of the coin, it is one of the most romantic attacks performed by cyber-criminals in order to steal money. Today I’d […]
Read more "Uncovering New Magecart Implant Attacking eCommerce"Introduction Information sharing is one of the most important activity that cybersecurity researchers do on daily basis. Thanks to “infosharing” activities it is possible to block or, in specific cases, to prevent cyber attacks. Most of the infosharing activities involved in cybersecurity are mostly focused on Indicator of Compromise such as: URL, IPs, Domains and […]
Read more "Cyber Threat Trends Dashboard"Introduction Today I’d like to share a quick analysis of an interesting attack targeting precision engineering companies based in Italy. Precision engineering is a very important business market in Europe, it includes developing mechanical equipment for: automotive, railways, heavy industries and military grade technology . The attacker pretended to be a customer and sent to […]
Read more "SWEED Targeting Precision Engineering Companies in Italy"Introduction The group behind Emotet malware is getting smarter and smarter in the way the deliver such a Malware. While the infection schema looks alike from years; the way the group tries to infect victims improves from day to day.Today I’d like to share a quick analysis resulted by a very interesting email which claimed […]
Read more "Is Emotet gang targeting companies with external SOC?"During the early 2000s in private chats or even in public IRC channels, self-styled “hackers” used to DOX people in order to prove their competence in “dark arts” (cit. Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE). I always was fascinated by those guys that with few information such as an email address or a nickname were able […]
Read more "DOXing in 2019"Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic. First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against the just extracted links. Plus a queue manager system to manage scrapers conflicts and a database to store scraped data […]
Read more "Scraping the TOR for rare contents"There are many ways to fight cyber-crime, but what we used to do in Yoroi is Malware analysis and Incident response by using special and proprietary technologies. Often analyses are enough to temporary block cyber-criminals by sharing to everybody IOC allowing National and International players (ISP, AV vendors, CERTs and so on) to block connections […]
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