Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2022
Pro-Russian hacker group KillNet is threatening again Italy, it announced a massive and unprecedented attack on May 30. Pro-Russian hacker group KillNet is threatening again Italy, it announced a massive and unprecedented attack on May 30. Pro-Russian âhacktivistâ group Killnet is one of the most active non-state actors operating since the beginning of the Russian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Experts believe that Russian Gamaredon APT could fuel a new round of DDoS attacks The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2022
A man from New York was sentenced to four years in prison for trading stolen credit card data and assisting the Infraud Organization. John Telusma (aka ‘Peterelliot’), a New York man from New York (37), was sentenced this week to four years in prison for purchasing stolen or compromised credit cards and assisting the Infraud […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2022
360 Qihoo reported DDoS attacks launched by APT-C-53 (aka Gamaredon) conducted through the open-source DDoS Trojan program LOIC. Researchers at 360 Qihoo observed a wave of DDoS attacks launched by Russia-linked APT-C-53 (aka Gamaredon) and reported that the threat actors also released as open-source the code of a DDoS Trojan called LOIC. The instances of the malware spotted by the experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2022
The recently launched Industrial Spy data extortion marketplace has now started its ransomware operation. In April, Malware HunterTeam and Bleeping Computer reported the launch of a new dark web marketplace called Industrial Spy that sells stolen data and offers free stolen data to its members. MalwareHunterTeam researchers spotted malware samples [1, 2] that drop the following wallpaper that promotes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2022
Russia-linked threat actors are behind a new website that published leaked emails from leading proponents of Britain’s exit from the EU, the Reuters reported. According to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence, the “Very English Coop d’Etat” website was set up to publish private emails from Brexit supporters, including […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2022
GitHub provided additional details into the theft of its integration OAuth tokens that occurred in April, with nearly 100,000 NPM users’ credentials. GitHub provided additional details about the incident that suffered in April, the attackers were able to steal nearly 100K NPM users’ credentials. In April, GitHub uncovered threat actors using stolen OAuth user tokens to gain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2022
Microsoft found several high-severity vulnerabilities in a mobile framework used in pre-installed Android System apps. The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team discovered four vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-42598, CVE-2021-42599, CVE-2021-42600, and CVE-2021-42601) in a mobile framework, owned by mce Systems, that is used by several mobile carriers in pre-installed Android System apps. The researchers discovered the flaws in September 2021 and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2022
Security researchers devised a technique, dubbed GhostTouch, to remotely control touchscreens using electromagnetic signals. A team of researchers from Zhejiang University and Technical University of Darmstadt devised a technique, dubbed GhostTouch, to remotely control capacitive touchscreens using electromagnetic signals. According to the experts, GhostTouch is the first active contactless attack against capacitive touchscreens. GhostTouch uses electromagnetic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2022
The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. The FBI issued an alert to inform the higher education sector about the availability of login credentials on dark web forums that can be used by threat actors to launch attacks […]
