Dangerous Malware Threatening Italians, Blockchain Could Protect Victims

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With cybersecurity still very weak, Danabot, Gootkit, SLoad and Panda (Zeus), are some of the malwares which have been disturbing and threatening people and their computers in Italy, according to Yoroi cybersecurity experts. Sensitive personal data has been lost and it is very hard to be restored. However, if blockchain technology is used, it could help users in to defend and protect their devices from being attacked and threatened by these malevolent malwares.

There are many ways bad actors and malwares can use to infect a device such as a smartphone, a computer, etc., to get into the user’s sensitive data, minus victim seeing. Such ways include spoofing emails, obsolete defenses, system bugs, and others.

Gabriele Porro has detected the 4 most malicious malwares that find their targets in Italy in 2019.

SLoad: The malware hit the UK and Canada and later spread to Italy at the end of last year. The malware enables the periodic capture of screenshots as well as the system info from the compromised and attacked devices, sending them to the bad actors that coordinate and initiate the attack.

Gootkit: This malware spreads via attack campaigns with legal subjects, even via certified e-mail. The malware is capable to steal data and interrupt the person’s web traffic, and even go ahead to grab encryption keys directly from smart cards and security tokens put in the target computer. The malware was successfully spread in the certified electronic mailboxes belonging to Italian public administrations, targeting to steal sensitive information and to take control of compromised computers. It has also been attacking the banking sector to access the victim’s banking activities.

Danabot: The malware has the ability to manipulate user navigation and to interrupt login and web sessions on a series of online services, for instance, from home banking portals, to email providers, to real estate portals as well as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and other cryptocurrency exchanges. The malware also has the ability to resurrect i.e. the malware can run again each time the infected machine (system) is rebooted.

Panda (Zeus): The malware has the potential to make man-in-the-browser attacks on Italian home banking portals, then snip and change info or provisions. It has been widely spread via Microsoft Office documents which have extensions such as .doc or .xls. The malware was spread through sending phony invoices with the aim of stealing passwords, cryptocurrencies, cookies and tokens that are related to user sessions of Italian financial institutions such as Intesa Sanpaolo, Banca Passadore, Cedacri, Poste and others.

Read the details in the article of Coinidol dot com, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/dangerous-malware-threatening/