Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2019
Lithuanian man Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to five years in jail for stealing $120 Million from Google and Facebook employees. Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to five years of prison for stealing $120 Million from Google and Facebook employees with business email compromise (BEC) attacks carried out between 2013 and 2015. The Lithuanian citizen Evaldas Rimasauskas (48) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2019
U.S. Justice Department announced that three members of the cybercrime group behind the GozNym banking Trojan have been sentenced to prison. U.S. Justice Department announced that three members of the cybercrime group behind the GozNym banking Trojan have been sentenced to prison. The crooks infected more than 4,000 victim computers globally with GozNym banking Trojan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2019
The news of two new payment card breaches made the headlines, the victims are the Islands restaurant chain and Champagne French Bakery Cafe. The new restaurant chains with locations across the U.S. disclosed payment card breaches, in both cases, attackers used PoS malware to capture card data stored in the magnetic stripe. Exposed data includes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2019
Experts spotted a massive global Emotet malware campaign that uses as lure documents the Swedish climate-change activist Greta Thunberg. Crooks always attempt to monetize the media interest on specific topics, and the recent Greta Thunberg-themed Emotet campaign confirms it. Experts from the Proofpoint Threat Insight team have spotted a malspam campaign delivering the Emotet malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2019
A former contractor of British airline Jet2 has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a cyberattack that shut down the airlineâs systems for over 12 hours. Scott Burns, a former contractor of British low-cost airline Jet2 has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a cyberattack that shut down the company systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs From iPhone to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM â exploit âPrintconfig dll with a real-world example Iran announced to have foiled a second cyber-attack in a week Largest hospital system in New Jersey was hit by ransomware attack A thief stole […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2019
A 22-year-old man was sentenced for his involvement in an extortion attempt against Apple, he threatened to mass-hack iCloud accounts. Kerem Albayrak, a 22-year-old man from North London who claimed to have access to over 300 million iCloud accounts and threatened to factory reset all accounts unless Apple pays a ransom, was sentenced today in London. In […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2019
Greece authorities will extradite to France Russian Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, to face a charge of money laundering. Greek justice minister Costas Tsiaras announced the extradition to France of the Russian of Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, on suspicion of money laundering. In September 2019, the decision of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2019
Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach that may have exposed debit and credit card data from thousands of customers. Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach, its security team discovered a PoS malware on its payment processing systems. Wawa operates more than 860 convenience retail stores, this breach is potentially […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2019
Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names in an unsecured database. Security expert Bob Diachenko, along with Comparitech, has discovered more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names in an unsecured database. The huge trove of data is likely the result of an […]
