Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2024
Cybercriminals use progressive web applications (PWA) to impersonate banking apps and steal credentials from mobile users. ESET researchers detailed a phishing campaign against mobile users that uses Progressive Web Applications (PWAs). The threat actors used fake apps almost indistinguishable from real banking apps on both iOS and Android. The technique was first disclosed in Poland in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2024
Cato Security found a new info stealer, called Cthulhu Stealer, that targets Apple macOS and steals a wide range of information. Cado Security researchers have discovered a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) targeting macOS users dubbed Cthulhu Stealer. Cthulhu Stealer targets macOS users via an Apple disk image (DMG) that disguises itself as legitimate software. The researchers spotted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2024
Semiconductor manufacturer Microchip Technology announced that its operations were disrupted by a cyberattack. U.S. chipmaker Microchip Technology suffered a cyberattack that disrupted operations at several of its manufacturing plants. The company detected potentially suspicious activity involving its IT infrastructure on August 17, 2024. The attack severely impacted the production capacity of the company that shut […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2024
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis revealed that ransomware payments rose by approximately 2%, from $449.1 million to $459.8 million. Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis revealed that while overall on-chain illicit activity has decreased by nearly 20% year-to-date, stolen funds and ransomware significantly increased. Stolen funds inflows almost doubled, rising from $857 million to $1.58 billion, and ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2024
Experts spotted a previously undetected backdoor, dubbed Msupedge, that was employed in an attack against a university in Taiwan. Broadcom Symantec researchers discovered a previously undetected backdoor, called Msupedge, that was employed in an attack targeting an unnamed university in Taiwan. The most notable feature of the backdoor is that it relies on DNS tunnelling […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2024
Toyota has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor leaked 240GB of data stolen from its infrastructure on a cybercrime forum. Toyota disclosed a data breach after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from its systems on a cybercrime forum, BleepingComputer reported. The threat actor ZeroSevenGroup claims to have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2024
Team Cymru, Silent Push and Stark Industries Solutions researchers uncovered a new infrastructure linked to the cybercrime group FIN7. Researchers from Team Cymru identified two clusters potentially linked to the cybercrime group FIN7. The team collaborated with the cybersecurity experts of Silent Push and Stark Industries Solutions who shared their findings. FIN7 is a Russian criminal group (aka Carbanak) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2024
New cybercrime group Mad Liberator is targeting AnyDesk users and runs a fake Microsoft Windows update screen to conceal data exfiltrating. The Sophos X-Ops Incident Response team warned that a new ransomware group called Mad Liberator is exploiting the remote-access application Anydesk for their attacks. The group was also spotted running a fake Microsoft Windows update […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2024
A large-scale extortion campaign compromised multiple organizations by exploiting publicly accessible environment variable files (.env). Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers uncovered a large-scale extortion campaign that successfully compromised and extorted multiple victim organizations by leveraging exposed environment variable files (.env files). The exposed files contained sensitive variables such as credentials belonging to various applications. This extortion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2024
Background check service National Public Data confirms a data breach that exploded millions of social security numbers and other sensitive information. Background check service National Public Data confirms that a threat actor has breached its systems and had access to millions of social security numbers and other sensitive personal information. According to a statement published […]
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