Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2020
Security experts from Cyble discovered in the dark web a database containing details of over 20 Million Taiwanese citizens. A few weeks ago, threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered in the dark web a database containing details of over 20 Million Taiwanese citizens. According to the experts, the leak includes government data of an entire country, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2020
Israel âs national cyber chief acknowledged the country had thwarted a major cyber attack in April against its water systems. Israelâs national cyber chief Yigal Unna officially confirmed that the country in April had thwarted a major cyber attack against its water systems. The media, citing officials that spoke under condition of anonymity, attributed the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2020
Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has published today its first TAG quarterly report that analyzes rising trends in nation-state and financially motivated attacks. Google also discloses seven coordinated political influence campaigns that took place on its platforms during Q1 2020. The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is a group inside the Google’s security team that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2020
Valak malware has rapidly changed over the past six months, it was initially designed as a loader, but now it implemented infostealer capabilities. The Valak malware completely changed over the past six months, it was first developed to act as a loader, but now it implements also infostealer capabilities. The malicious code fist appeared in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2020
Microsoft is warning organizations to deploy protections against a new strain of PonyFinal ransomware that has been in the wild over the past two months. Microsoft’s security team issued a series of tweets warning organizations to deploy protections against a new piece of ransomware dubbed PonyFinal that has been in the wild over the past […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2020
The updated Grandoreiro Malware equipped with latenbot-C2 features in Q2 2020 now extended to Portuguese banks Grandoreiro is a Latin American banking trojan targeting Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Peru, and has now extended to Portugal. Cybercriminals attempt to compromise computers to generate revenue by exfiltrating information from victimsâ devices, typically banking-related information. During April and May 2020, a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2020
The number of ransomware attacks increased by 40 percent last year, according to Group-IB attackers think bigger and grow more advanced. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, found out that the year of 2019 was marked by ransomware evolution and was dominated by increasingly aggressive ransomware campaigns, with its operators resorting to more cunning […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2020
A joint operations conducted by experts from Chinese firms Qihoo 360 Netlab and Baidu dismantle the ShuangQiang ‘s botnet infecting over hundreds of thousands of systems. A joint operation conducted by Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab and tech giant Baidu disrupted a botnet operated by a group tracked as ShuangQiang (aka Double Gun) that infected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2020
A new piece of ransomware dubbed FuckUnicorn it targeting Italy by tricking victims into downloading a fake COVID-19 contact tracing app. A new ransomware dubbed FuckUnicorn has been targeting computers in Italy by tricking victims into downloading a fake contact tracing app, named Immuni, that promises to provide real-time updates for the COVID-19 outbreak. The COVID-19-themed campaign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2020
Threat actors are offering for sale more than two dozen SQL databases belonging to e-commerce websites for different countries. Hackers are offering for sale more than two dozen SQL databases stolen from online shops from multiple countries. Threat actors have compromised insecure servers exposed online and after copying the content of their websites they left […]
