Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2019
Spanish authorities extradited 94 Taiwanese to China to face telephone and online fraud charges, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry expressed a strong regret. Spain extradited 94 Taiwanese to China to face telephone and online fraud charges, the indicted were transferred via plane by officials. “The suspects arrived Friday morning at Beijing airport on a chartered flight. Footage […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2019
Microsoft is warning of an active spam campaign targeting European languages that leverages an exploit to infect simply by opening the attachment. Microsoft issued a warning on Friday about an ongoing spam campaign that is targeting European users. Spam messages are carrying weaponized RTF documents that could infect users with malware without any user interaction, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ESET analyzes Turla APTs usage of weaponized PowerShell Leicester City Football Club disclosed a card breach ProtonMail denies that it spies on users for government agencies Expert shows how […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2019
A new botnet tracked as GoldBrute is scanning the web for Windows machines with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection enabled. A new botnet tracked as GoldBrute has appeared in the threat landscape, it is scanning the web for Windows machines with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection enabled. The botnet is currently targeting over 1.5 million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2019
A new piece of malware appeared in the threat landscape, dubbed BlackSquid it targets web servers with several exploits to deliver cryptocurrency miners. Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Monero cryptomining miner, dubbed BlackSquid, that is targeting web servers, network drives, and removable drives. The new piece of malware leverages many exploits […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2019
Leicester City Football Club disclosed a card breach that affected its website, hackers stole payment card data, including card numbers and CVVs. Leicester City Football Club revealed that hackers have breached its website (https://shop.lcfc.com/) and stole credit card data of people that bought products disclosed a card breach that affected its website, hackers stole payment […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2019
GandCrab first appeared in the threat landscape in early 2018 and continuously evolved over time. Now operators are shutting down their operations. Early 2018, experts at cyber security firm LMNTRIX have discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service dubbed GandCrab. advertised in Russian hacking community on the dark web. The GandCrab was advertised in Russian hacking community, researchers noticed that authors leverage the RIG and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2019
Guardicore Labs uncovered a widespread cryptojacking campaign tracked as Nansh0u and aimed at Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers. Security experts at Guardicore Labs uncovered a widespread cryptojacking campaign leveraging a malware dubbed Nansh0u. The malicious code aimed at Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers worldwide. According to the experts, the malicious campaign is being carried out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2019
An attack against an Italian organization lead the experts at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab to shed the light on ongoing operations attributed to TA505. Introduction In the last few days, during monitoring activities, Yoroi CERT noticed a suspicious attack against an Italian organization. The malicious email contains a highly suspicious sample which triggered the ZLAB team to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2019
Experts at IBM X-Force observed a new campaign involving the HawkEye keylogger in April and May 2019 aimed at business users. Malware attacks leveraging a new variant of the HawkEye keylogger have been observed by experts at Talos. The malware has been under active development since at least 2013 and it is offered for sale […]
