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Among the cyber attacks recorded daily, there are some of more sophisticated nature. They are called Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). These threats, among which some are state-sponsored, appear to be part of a Cyber Warfare scenario. Yet, they are as real as they can get and target specific information, such as company know-how, personal information or bank transactions. A team of analysts with appropriate … Read more
APT28 (Fancy Bear) timing operations around NATO events: spearphishing lures, fake credential portals, payload delivery patterns and attribution signals.
Italian IoT devices conscripted into botnets and used as launch pads for cyber attacks: device profiles, exposure metrics and remediation considerations.
Ursnif (Gozi/ISFB) banking trojan: persistence mechanisms, web-injection capabilities, command-and-control patterns and remediation steps for infected hosts.
Ursnif campaigns aimed at Italian organisations: phishing lures in Italian, payload delivery patterns and C2 hosting trends observed across multiple waves.
Insights from FortPot honeynet sensors: scanning waves, exploitation attempts on exposed services, automated brute-force trends and ASN-level intelligence.
Indicators of Compromise from August-September 2018 banking-malware campaigns (Emotet, TrickBot) targeting Italian infrastructures.
Neutrino exploit-kit campaign: redirect chains, vulnerable plugins exploited, payload delivery and indicators observed during detection on Italian infrastructures.
The Cisco Talos Team shared their analysis of the latest Malspam wave distributed by the Necurs Botnet (link). Necurs is among the most active botnets globally, capable of generating massive volumes of spam. The malicious emails delivered by this campaign carry Ransomware and Banking Trojans — specifically Ursnif, Panda Banker, and Emotet. Opening the malicious … Read more
