Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2017
Hackers broke into the system of the technology provider DocuSign and accessed customers email addresses. The experts warn of possible spear phishing attacks. The Electronic signature technology provider DocuSign suffered a data breach, hackers have stolen email addresses from one of its servers. On Monday the company informed its customers of the data breach and warned them of fake […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2017
Shadow Brokers made the headlines once again, the notorious group plans to offer data dump on a monthly subscription model. The notorious Shadow Brokers hacking group made the headlines during the weekend when systems worldwide were compromised by the WannaCry ransomware because the thread leveraged the EternalBlue exploit and DoublePulsar backdoor developed by the NSA. Both tools […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2017
Security experts at ProofPoint security discovered that many machines can’t be infected by WannaCry because they have been already infected by Adylkuzz. The recent WannaCry ransomware attack wasn’t the first to use the NSA-linked EternalBlue and DoublePulsar hacking tools. Proofpoint researchers have discovered that the cryptocurrency miner Adylkuzz, was the first threat that used the EternalBlue exploit to trigger […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2017
Crooks claim have stolen the Walt Disney’s forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film and are threatening to release it in 20 minutes chunks. Cybercriminals claim have stolen the Walt Disney’s forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film and are threatening to release it online if the company will not pay the ransom. CEO Bob Iger, told a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2017
Last Friday, a weaponized version of an NSA exploit was used to infect over two hundred thousand computers in over 150 countries with the WannaCry ransomware. In addition to government ministries and transportation infrastructure, the British National Health Service (NHS) was crippled, disrupting treatment and care for thousands of patients, and putting countless lives at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2017
APT32 is a new APT group discovered by security experts at FireEye that is targeting Vietnamese interests around the globe. The APT32 group, also known as OceanLotus Group, has been active since at least 2013, according to the experts it is a state-sponsored hacking group. The hackers targeting organizations across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2017
In the IT security community several experts start linking the WannaCry ransomware to the Lazarus Group due to similarities in the attack codes. The security researcher at Google Neel Mehta published a mysterious tweet using the #WannaCryptAttribution hashtag. What did he mean? 9c7c7149387a1c79679a87dd1ba755bc @ 0x402560, 0x40F598ac21c8ad899727137c4b94458d7aa8d8 @ 0x10004ba0, 0x10012AA4#WannaCryptAttribution — Neel Mehta (@neelmehta) May 15, 2017 According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2017
WikiLeaks Reveals two distinct malware platforms codenamed AfterMidnight and Assassin used by the CIA operators to target Windows systems. While critical infrastructure worldwide and private organizations were ridiculed by the WannaCry attack, WikiLeaks released a new batch of CIA documents from the Vault 7 leaks. The new dump included the documentation related to two CIA frameworks used to create […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2017
Massive WannaCry Ransomware hits almost 150 countries around the world. How to avoid it? What’s happened? How to beat ransomware? Something rare but extremely dangerous is currently rotating around the web. Named after the feeling it inflicts on users when they find their PCs infected with it, WannaCry is a ransomware which encrypts all files […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2017
Security researchers from Cylance discovered a new fileless malware dubbed BAIJIU that was used to targets North Korea. Security experts believe the threat has a Chinese origin, attackers delivered it through a phishing campaign. “BAIJIU, which evades widespread detection, abuses global concern about the dire humanitarian situation in North Korea. It enters the target environment through an […]
