Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2020
Emotet is back on Christmas Eve, cybercrime operators are sending out spam messages to deliver the infamous Trickbot Trojan. Emotet is back on Christmas Eve, after two months of silence, cybercrime operators are sending out spam messages to deliver the infamous Trickbot Trojan. The recent Emotet campaign uses updated payloads and is targeting over 100,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2020
REvil ransomware gang, aka Sodinokibi, hacked The Hospital Group and threatens to release before-and-after pictures of celebrity clients. The Hospital Group has 11 clinics and has a celebrity clientele, but it made the headlines because the REvil ransomware gang, aka Sodinokibi, claims to have hacked its systems and threatens to release before-and-after pictures of celebrity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2020
CrowdStrike released a free Azure security tool after it was notified by Microsoft of a failed attack leveraging compromised Azure credentials. While investigating the impact of the recent SolarWind hack, on December 15th Microsoft reported to CrowdStrike that threat actors attempted to read CrowdStrike’s emails by using a compromised Microsoft Azure reseller’s account. “Specifically, they […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2020
The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has recently launched cyberattacks against at least two organizations involved in COVID-19 research. The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has recently launched cyberattacks against two entities involved in COVID-19 research. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2020
Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin was compromised on Christmas Eve, hackers breached its network and gained control of some of its servers. The Russian cryptocurrency exchange was hacked on Christmas Eve, it published a message on its website warning customers to stop using its services. “Dear clients, we ask you to stop using our service in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2020
Citrix confirmed that a DDoS attack is targeting Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) networking equipment. The threat actors are using the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol as an amplification vector in attacks against Citrix appliances with EDT enabled. The DTLS protocol is a communications protocol for securing delay-sensitive apps and services that use datagram […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2020
Millions of devices are potential exposed to attacks targeting the vulnerabilities exploited by the tools stolen from the arsenal of FireEye. Security experts from Qualys are warning that more than 7.5 million devices are potentially exposed to cyber attacks targeting the vulnerabilities exploited by the tools stolen from the arsenal of FireEye. As a result […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2020
Google’s Project Zero experts publicly disclosed details of an improperly patched zero-day code execution vulnerability in Windows. White hat hackers at Google’s Project Zero team has publicly disclosed details of an improperly patched zero-day vulnerability in Windows. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-0986, resides in the Print Spooler API and could be exploited by a threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2020
Israeli cyber security firm Cellebrite claims that it can decrypt messages from the popular Signal’s messaging app. Israeli security firm Cellebrite has claimed that it can decrypt messages from the Signal highly secure messaging app. The BBC reported the link to a blog on the company website that details the procedure to decrypt the Signal messages. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2020
CyberNews Investigation team analyzed the 13 most popular messaging apps to see if the apps are really safe. Source: https://cybernews.com/security/research-nearly-all-of-your-messaging-apps-are-secure/ In recent research, the CyberNews Investigation team discovered that a chat service, most likely based in China, had leaked more than 130,000 extremely NSFW images, video and audio recordings of their users. While this messaging […]
