Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2021
Security researchers uncovered a series of attacks conducted by the FreakOut botnet that leveraged recently discovered vulnerabilities. Security researchers from Check Point have uncovered a series of attacks associated with the FreakOut botnet that is targeting multiple unpatched flaws in applications running on top of Linux systems. The botnet appeared in the threat landscape in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2021
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a notification warning of ongoing vishing attacks attempting to steal corporate accounts. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a Private Industry Notification (PIN) that warns of ongoing vishing attacks aimed at stealing corporate accounts and credentials from US and international-based employees. Vishing (also known as voice phishing) is a social engineering […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2021
Joker’s Stash to shut down on February 15, 2021. Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online announced that it was shutting down its operations on February 15, 2021. Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online, announced that its operations will shut down on February 15, 2021. The administrator announced the decision via messages posted on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2021
Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax, against Colombian government institutions and private companies. Malware researchers from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax, against Colombian entities exclusively. The attacks aimed at government institutions and private companies, most of them in the energy and metallurgical sectors. The campaign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2021
Capcom revealed that the recent ransomware attack has potentially impacted 390,000 people, an increase of approximately 40,000 people from the previous report. In November, Japanese game developer Capcom admitted to have suffered a cyberattack that is impacting business operations. The company has developed multiple multi-million-selling game franchises, including Street Fighter, Mega Man, Darkstalkers, Resident Evil, Devil May […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2021
Russian-speaking scammers started targeting users of European marketplaces and classifieds is a criminal scheme dubbed Classiscam. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, has discovered that Russian-speaking scammers started targeting users of European marketplaces and classifieds. The scheme, dubbed Classiscam by Group-IB, is an automated scam as a service designed to steal money […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2021
Experts discovered an Android Remote Access Trojan, dubbed Rogue, that can allow to take over infected devices and steal user data. Rogue is a new mobile RAT discovered by researchers from Check Point while investigating the activity of the darknet threat actors known as Triangulum and HeXaGoN Dev. Both actors are Android malware authors that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2021
The world’s largest black marketplace on the dark web, DarkMarket, has been taken offline by law enforcement in an international operation. DarkMarket, the world’s largest black marketplace on the dark web, has been taken offline as a result of an international operation conducted by law enforcement from Germany, Australia, Denmark, Moldova, Ukraine, the United Kingdom […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2021
A U.S. court on Thursday sentenced the Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin to 12 years in prison for his role in an international hacking campaign. A U.S. court sentenced this week Andrei Tyurin (37) to 12 years in prison for carrying out an international hacking campaign that targeted several financial institutions, brokerage firms, financial news publishers, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2021
Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that the TeamTNT botnet is now able to steal Docker API logins along with AWS credentials. Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that the TeamTNT botnet was improved and is now able to steal also Docker credentials. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April […]
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