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Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2020

Office 365 phishing campaign leverages Oracle and Amazon cloud services

Experts warn of a new sophisticated phishing scheme for stealing Office 365 credentials from small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. The new sophisticated phishing scheme was implemented by threat actors for stealing Office 365 credentials, it leverages both cloud services from Oracle and Amazon for their infrastructure. The campaign has been active for more […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2020

Hundreds of C-level executives credentials available for $100 to $1500 per account

A credible threat actor is offering access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives for $100 to $1500 per account. Access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives is available on the Exploit.in for $100 to $1500 per account. Exploit.in is a popular closed-access underground forum for Russian-speaking hackers, and it […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2020

The global impact of the Fortinet 50.000 VPN leak posted online

The global impact of the Fortinet 50.000 VPN leak posted online, with many countries impacted, including Portugal. A compilation of one-line exploit tracked as CVE-2018-13379 and that could be used to steal VPN credentials from nearly 50.000 Fortinet VPN devices has posted online. This vulnerability resides in an improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2020

Canon publicly confirms August ransomware attack and data breach

Canon finally confirmed that it has suffered a ransomware attack in early August that resulted in the theft of data from its servers. Canon has finally confirmed that it was the victim of a ransomware attack in early August and that the threat actors also stole data from its servers. In August, BleepingComputer first revealed […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2020

Danish news agency Ritzau hit by ransomware, but did not pay the ransom

Ritzau, the biggest Danish news agency, was hit by a ransomware attack that brought it offline but refused to pay the ransom. Ritzau, the biggest Danish news agency, was hit by a ransomware attack that brought it offline. The cyber attack hit a quarter of Ritzau ’s 100 servers that have been damaged. The agency […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2020

Operation Falcon: Group-IB helps INTERPOL identify Nigerian BEC ring members

Group-IB supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company, supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise (BEC) cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT by Group-IB. A cross-border anti-cybercrime effort that involved INTERPOL’s Cybercrime Directorate, Nigerian Police Force, and Group-IB’s APAC Cyber Investigations Team has resulted in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2020

Group-IB Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has presented its annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report. In the report, the company examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year. The most severe financial damage has occurred as a result of ransomware activity. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2020

A new Stantinko Bot masqueraded as httpd targeting Linux servers

Researchers spotted a new variant of an adware and coin-miner botnet operated by Stantinko threat actors that now targets Linux servers. Researchers from Intezer have spotted a new variant of an adware and coin-miner botnet that is operated by Stantinko threat actors since 2012. The Stantinko botnet was first spotted by ESET in 2017, at the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2020

TrickBot operators continue to update their malware to increase resilience to takedown

Following the recent takedown, the TrickBot operators have implemented various improvements to make it more resilient. In October, Microsoft’s Defender team, FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, NTT, and Broadcom’s cyber-security division Symantec joined the forces and announced a coordinated effort to take down the command and control infrastructure of the infamous TrickBot botnet. Even if Microsoft and its partners have brought down the TrickBot […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2020

Crooks social-engineered GoDaddy staff to take over crypto-biz domains

Crooks were able to trick GoDaddy staff into handing over control of crypto-biz domain names in a classic DNS hijacking attack. Crooks were able to hijack traffic and email to various cryptocurrency-related websites as a result of a DNS hijacking attack on domains managed by GoDaddy. The threat actors were able to modify DNS settings […]

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Office 365 phishing campaign leverages Oracle and Amazon cloud services

Hundreds of C-level executives credentials available for $100 to $1500 per account

The global impact of the Fortinet 50.000 VPN leak posted online

Canon publicly confirms August ransomware attack and data breach

Danish news agency Ritzau hit by ransomware, but did not pay the ransom

Operation Falcon: Group-IB helps INTERPOL identify Nigerian BEC ring members

Group-IB Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report

A new Stantinko Bot masqueraded as httpd targeting Linux servers

TrickBot operators continue to update their malware to increase resilience to takedown

Crooks social-engineered GoDaddy staff to take over crypto-biz domains

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