Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2022
Uber believes that the LAPSUS$ gang is behind the recent attack

Uber disclosed additional details about the security breach, the company blames a threat actor allegedly affiliated with the LAPSUS$ hacking group. Uber revealed additional details about the recent security breach, the company believes that the threat actor behind the intrusion is affiliated with the LAPSUS$ hacking group. Over the last months, the Lapsus$ gang compromised […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2022
Analyzing IP Addresses to Prevent Fraud for Enterprises

How can businesses protect themselves from fraudulent activities by examining IP addresses? The police would track burglars if they left calling cards at the attacked properties. Internet fraudsters usually leave a trail of breadcrumbs whenever they visit websites through specific IP addresses. They reveal their physical location and the device they used to connect to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2022
American Airlines disclosed a data breach

American Airlines disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to an undisclosed number of employee email accounts. American Airlines recently suffered a data breach, threat actors compromised a limited number of employee email accounts. The intruders had access to sensitive personal information contained in the accounts, but the company’s data breach notification states that it is not aware […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2022
IT giants warn of ongoing Chromeloader malware campaigns

VMware and Microsoft are warning of a widespread Chromeloader malware campaign that distributes several malware families. ChromeLoader is a malicious Chrome browser extension, it is classified as a pervasive browser hijacker that modifies browser settings to redirect user traffic. The malware is able to redirect the user’s traffic and hijacking user search queries to popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2022
Revolut security breach: data of +50,000 users exposed

Revolut has suffered a cyberattack, threat actors have had access to personal information of tens of thousands of customers. The financial technology company Revolut suffered a ‘highly targeted’ cyberattack over the weekend, threat actors had access to the personal information of 0.16% of its customers (approximately 50,000 users). The company states that it has already contacted the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2022
Alleged Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA6) gameplay videos and source code leaked online

Threat actors leaked source code and gameplay videos of Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA6) after they have allegedly breached Rockstar Game. Threat actors allegedly compromised Rockstar Game’s Slack server and Confluence wiki and leaked Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay videos and source code. On September 18, 2022, threat actors that go on GTAForums as ‘teapotuberhacker’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2022
TeamTNT is back and targets servers to run Bitcoin encryption solvers

AquaSec researchers observed the cybercrime gang TeamTNT hijacking servers to run Bitcoin solver since early September. In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2022
Uber hacked, internal systems and confidential documents were allegedly compromised

Uber on Thursday disclosed a security breach, threat actors gained access to its network, and stole internal documents. Uber on Thursday suffered a cyberattack, the attackers were able to penetrate its internal network and access internal documents, including vulnerability reports. According to the New York Times, the threat actors hacked an employee’s Slack account and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2022
FBI: Millions in Losses resulted from attacks against Healthcare payment processors

The FBI has issued an alert about threat actors targeting healthcare payment processors in an attempt to hijack the payments. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert about cyber attacks against healthcare payment processors to redirect victim payments. Threat actors used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2022
Crooks are using lures related to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in phishing attacks

Threat actors are exploiting the death of Queen Elizabeth II as bait in phishing attacks to steal Microsoft account credentials from victims. Researchers from Proofpoint are warning of threat actors that are using the death of Queen Elizabeth II as bait in phishing attacks. The attackers aim at tricking recipients into visiting sites designed to […]