Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2021
Recently emerged LockFile ransomware family LockFile leverages a novel technique called intermittent encryption to speed up encryption. LockFile ransomware gang started its operations last month, recently it was spotted targeting Microsoft Exchange servers using the recently disclosed ProxyShell vulnerabilities. The popular security expert Kevin Beaumont was one of the first researchers to report that the LockFile operators are using the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2021
Crooks have stolen more than $29 million in cryptocurrency assets from Cream Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. Threat actors have stolen more than $29 million in cryptocurrency assets from Cream Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. C.R.E.A.M. Finance is a decentralized lending protocol for individuals, institutions and protocols to access financial services. It promises […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2021
The Boston Public Library was victim of a cyberattack that crippled its computer network, the library revealed in a statement Friday. The Boston Public Library announced on Friday that it was hit by a cyberattack that compromised its computer network. The affected systems were taken offline to prevent the threat from spreading. At the time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2021
The name of the sportswear manufacturer Puma appeared on the dark web marketplace of stolen data Marketo, threat actors claim to have stolen 1 GB of data from the company. The emerging underground marketplace of stolen data âMarketoâ available in TOR network announced the publication of data presumably stolen from sportswear manufacturer Puma. The ad […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2021
Crooks behind the Phorpiex botnet have shut down their operations and put the source code for sale on the dark web. The criminal organization behind the Phorpiex botnet have shut down their operations and put the source code of the bot for sale on a cybercrime forum in on a dark web. The news was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2021
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a flash alert related to the operations of the Hive ransomware gang. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a flash alert on the Hive ransomware attacks that includes technical details and indicators of compromise associated with the operations of the gang. Recently the group hit the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2021
Ragnarok ransomware operators are ceasing their operations and released the master key that can allow their victims to decrypt files for free. The Ragnarok ransomware group has been active since at least January 2020 and hit dozens of organizations worldwide. The news was reported by Bleeping Computer that also noticed that ransomware operators have replaced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2021
Documents and personal details of residents of the small Swiss town Rolle, on the shores of Lake Geneva, were stolen in a ransomware attack. The Swiss town Rolle disclosed the data breach after a ransomware attack, personal details of all its 6,200 inhabitants were stolen by threat actors. The threat actors compromised some administrative servers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2021
Financially motivated threat actor FIN8 employed a previously undocumented backdoor, tracked as ‘Sardonic,’ in recent attacks. The financially motivated threat actor FIN8 has been observed employing a previously undetected backdoor, dubbed Sardonic, on infected systems. The new backdoor was spotted by researchers from cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, it was discovered while investigating an unsuccessful attack carried […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2021
Threat actors claim to have a database containing private information on roughly 70 million AT&T customers, but the company denies any security breach. ShinyHunters group claims to have a database containing private information on roughly 70 million AT&T customers, but the company denies that they have been stolen from its systems. ShinyHunters is a popular […]
