Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2024
Crooks stole approximately 48.2 billion yen ($304 million) worth of Bitcoin from the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin. The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin announced that crooks stole 4,502.9 Bitcoin (BTC), approximately $304 million (48.2 billion yen), from the its wallets. “At approximately 1:26 p.m. on Friday, May 31, 2024, we detected an unauthorized leak […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2024
The threat actor ShinyHunters claims breach of Santander and is offering for sale bank data, including information for 30 million customers. A notorious threat actor ShinyHunters is offering a huge trove of data allegedly stolen from the Santander Bank for sale. ShinyHunters claims to have stolen information for 30 million customers, employees, and bank account […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2024
Researchers spotted a macOS version of the LightSpy surveillance framework that has been active in the wild since at least January 2024. Researchers from ThreatFabric discovered a macOS version of the LightSpy spyware that has been active in the wild since at least January 2024. ThreatFabric observed threat actors using two publicly available exploits (CVE-2018-4233, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2024
An international law enforcement operation, called Operation Endgame targeted multiple botnets and their operators. Between 27 and 29 May 2024, an international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol, codenamed Operation Endgame, targeted malware droppers like IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee, and Trickbot. The joint actions were carried out by authorities in the Netherlands, Germany, France, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2024
An international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. DoJ disrupted the 911 S5 botnet and led to the arrest of its administrator. The U.S. Justice Department led an international law enforcement operation that dismantled the 911 S5 proxy botnet. The law enforcement also arrested its administrator, the 35-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang, in Singapore. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2024
Identity and access management firm Okta warns of credential stuffing attacks targeting the Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) feature. Okta warns of credential stuffing attacks targeting its Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) feature since April. A credential stuffing attack is a type of cyber attack where hackers use large sets of username and password combinations, typically obtained from previous […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2024
The cybercrime forum BreachForums has been resurrected two weeks after a law enforcement operation that seized its infrastructure. The cybercrime forum BreachForums is online again, recently a US law enforcement operation seized its infrastructure and took down the platform. The platform is now reachable at breachforums[.]st, which was one of the domains used in the past […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2024
Dutch bank ABN Amro discloses data breach following a ransomware attack hit the third-party services provider AddComm. Dutch bank ABN Amro disclosed a data breach after third-party services provider AddComm suffered a ransomware attack. AddComm distributes documents and tokens physically and digitally to clients and employees. The ransomware attack occurred last week and unauthorized parties […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2024
Auction house Christie disclosed a data breach following a RansomHub cyber attack that occurred this month. Auction house Christie’s disclosed a data breach after the ransomware group RansomHub threatened to leak stolen data. The security breach occurred earlier this month. The website of the auction house was unreachable after the attack. According to BBC, Christie had problems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2024
Threat actors are exploiting a WordPress plugin to insert malicious PHP code in e-commerce sites and steal credit card data. Sucuri researchers observed threat actors using a PHP snippet WordPress plugin to install malicious code in WooCommerce e-stores and harvest credit card details. In the campaign spotted by the experts, attackers use a very obscure […]
Cyber Crime / September 08, 2024
