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Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2019
Raccoon info stealer already infected 100,000+ worldwide

A new information stealer, dubbed Raccoon, made the headlines infecting hundreds of millions of victims worldwide. Security experts at Cybereason have spotted a new information stealer, dubbed Raccoon, that is infecting hundreds of millions of victims worldwide. The malware was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2019
Ransomware hit TrialWorks, law firms and lawyers were not able to access court documents

TrialWorks, one of the most established providers of legal case management software for law firms and attorneys, was hit by ransomware. TrialWorks, a company that provides the most established and widely used legal case management software solutions, was a victim of a ransomware attack earlier this month. At result of the attack, law firms and lawyers, were […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2019
Experts found 17 apps in the Apple App Store infected with clicker Trojan

Wandera researchers discovered seventeen iOS applications infected with clicker Trojan into the official Apple App Store. Experts at Wandera discovered seventeen iOS applications infected with clicker Trojan into the official Apple App Store. The mobile apps were instructed by the C&C to simulate user interactions, allowing crooks to fraudulently collect ad revenue. “The clicker trojan […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 237

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Fake UpdraftPlus WordPress Plugins used to backdoor sites TA505 cybercrime […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2019
NCSC Report: U.K. neutralized over 600 cyber attacks this year

NCSC Report: U.K. has neutralized more than 600 cyber attacks this year, most of them launched by threat actors from overseas The National Cyber Security Centre announced that the U.K. has neutralized more than 600 cyber attacks this year, most of them launched by threat actors from overseas. Hackers from overseas, many of which are […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2019
CVE-2019-11043 exposes Web servers using nginx and PHP-FPM to hack

asty PHP7 remote code execution bug exploited in the wild Experts warn of a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP7, tracked as CVE-2019-11043, has been exploited in attacks in the wild. A remote code execution vulnerability in PHP7, tracked as CVE-2019-11043, has been exploited in attacks in the wild. On October 22, the security expert […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2019
Unsecured ElasticSearch DB exposed data for 7.5M Adobe Creative Cloud Users

Adobe suffered an important data leak, data for 7.5 Million Adobe Creative Cloud users have been exposed online through an unsecured server. The tech giant Adobe suffered an important data leak, data belonging to 7.5 Million Adobe Creative Cloud users have been exposed online through an unsecured server. The security breach took place this month […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2019
P&G online beauty store First Aid Beauty hit by Magecart attack

A new MageCart attack made the headlines, this time hackers planted a software skimmer in the Procter & Gamble’s site First Aid Beauty website. According to Willem de Groot, a researcher at Sanguine Security, threat actors planted a MageCart software skimmer on Procter & Gamble’s site First Aid Beauty on May 5, and the malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2019
DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services caused intermittently outage

This week Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that made it unavailable for some customers. This week, threat actors launched a massive DDoS attack against Amazon Web Services (AWS) causing the inability of some customers to access their AWS S3 buckets. Users were intermittently unable to access online services relying […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2019
Tortuga Crisis: Moonwalk, one of the biggest pirate CDNs eliminated dragging other big CDN-providers down

Group-IB has discovered that the shutdown of Moonwalk CDN (Content Delivery Network) has likely led to the closure of HDGO and Kodik CDNs. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has discovered that the shutdown of Moonwalk CDN (Content Delivery Network), one of the biggest pirate-powered providers of video content to Russian-speaking viewers, has likely led to the closure of HDGO and Kodik CDNs– major […]