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Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2018
Watch out, cyber criminals are using fake FBI emails to infect your computer

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning of a new malware campaign aimed at infecting victims with weaponized attachments. The Feds’ Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning of a new spam campaign aimed at infecting victims with a ransomware. According to an alert issued on Wednesday by the IC3, numerous citizens filled complaints after received […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2018
South Korea Warns of Flash Zero-Day flaw exploited by North Korea in surgical attacks

South Korea’s Internet & Security Agency (KISA) is warning of a Flash zero-day vulnerability that has reportedly been exploited in attacks by North Korea’s hackers. According to the alert published by the KISA, the vulnerability affects the latest Flash Player version 28.0.0.137 and earlier. The zero-day vulnerability could be exploited by an attack by tricking […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2018
WannaMine, the sophisticated crypto miner that spreads via NSA EternalBlue exploit

Researchers from security firm CrowdStrike spotted a new Monero crypto-mining worm dubbed WannaMine that spreads leveraging the NSA-linked EternalBlue exploit. This morning I wrote about the Smominru botnet that used NSA exploit to infect more than 526,000 systems, and I explained that other threat actors are using similar techniques to mine cryptocurrency. This is the case of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2018
Mining Smominru botnet used NSA exploit to infect more than 526,000 systems

Researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that is using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. The number of cyber attacks against the cryptocurrency sector continues, vxers are focusing their efforts on the development of cryptocurrency/miner malware. Recently security experts observed cryptocurrency miners leveraging the NSA EternalBlue SMB exploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2018
Malware exploiting Spectre and Meltdown flaws are currently based on available PoC

Malware Exploiting Spectre, Meltdown Flaws Emerges Researchers at the antivirus testing firm AV-TEST have discovered more than 130 samples of malware that were specifically developed to exploit the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities. The good news is that these samples appear to be the result of testing activities, but experts fear that we could soon […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2018
Mozilla fixes a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Firefox

Mozilla has released security updates for Firefox 58 that addresses a critical remote code vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Mozilla has released an update for the Firefox 58 browser  (aka Firefox Quantum) that addresses a critical flaw that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2018
Is ICEMAN behind the malware-based attack on Crystal Finance Millennium?

Exclusive – The Iceman gang taking responsibility for infecting Crystal Finance Millennium, the journalist Marc Miller interviewd one of the members of the crew. Iceman gang member confirms that they are behind the introduction and spreading of malware that infected the systems at Crystal Finance Millennium. In Septemeber security experts at TrendMicro reported that the Ukraine based Account […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2018
US Attorney General set up the Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team to fight online opioid trafficking

The US Attorney General announced the creation of the Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team to fight online opioid trafficking. Tor network is still a privileged ecosystem for cyber criminals and pedos, law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide reserve a significative effort in fighting any illegal practice that leverages anonymizing networks. The US Attorney General […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2018
Cybercriminals Stealing From Cybercriminals Ransomware Victims Left Stranded

What do you get when you add Bitcoin, with a TOR network proxy and cybercriminals? Even more cybercrime! Bitcoin is the preferred cryptocurrency for ransomware payments. Like most cryptocurrencies it is largely anonymous, allowing the ransoming cybercriminals to collect their money while staying safely in the shadows. Even though Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2018
Once again, Oracle MICROS PoS have been breached

Security experts from ERPScan discovered a new flaw in Oracle MICROS PoS terminals that could be exploited by an attacker to read sensitive data from devices. Security experts from ERPScan discovered a new directory traversal vulnerability in Oracle MICROS Point-of-Sale terminals, tracked as CVE-2018-2636, which could be exploited by an attacker to read sensitive data […]