Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2020
In August, the Emotet botnet operators switched to a new template, named ‘Red Dawn,’ for the malicious attachments employed in new campaigns. The notorious Emotet went into the dark since February 2020, but after months of inactivity, the infamous trojan has surged back in July with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The Emotet banking trojan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2020
The FBI is warning of online romance scams and related financial losses, overall losses associated with those complaints exceeded $475 million. The Federal Bureau of Investigation warns of online romance scams (also known as confidence fraud), an ongoing criminal activity that continues to cause large financial losses along with emotional effects with unpredictable consequences. Crooks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2020
Elon Musk confirmed that Russian hackers attempted to recruit an employee to install malware into the network of electric car maker Tesla. Recently US authorities arrested the Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov (27) after attempting to recruit an employee at a targeted company to plant a piece of malware. The man was arrested on August […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2020
A new variant of the infamous Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware has been updated to targets Linux devices. Security researchers from Sophos have spotted a new variant of the Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware that has been updated to compromise Linux machines via SSH brute force attacks. The new variant also exploits SMBGhost bug in Windows systems, and is also able to target servers running Redis […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2020
Microsoft warned of a recently uncovered piece of malware, tracked as Anubis that was designed to steal information from infected systems. This week, Microsoft warned of a recently uncovered piece of malware, tracked as Anubis, that was distributed in the wild to steal information from infected systems. Anubis is the name of an Android malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2020
REvil ransomware operators claimed to have breached another healthcare organization, the victim is Valley Health Systems. During ordinary monitoring activity of data leaks, the Cyble Research Team identified a leak disclosure post published by the REvil ransomware operators claiming to have breached a healthcare organization, the Valley Health Systems. Healthcare organizations are a privileged target of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2020
FBI authorities arrested a Russian national in the U.S. after attempting to recruit an employee at a targeted company to plant a malware. US authorities arrested the Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov (27) after attempting to recruit an employee at a targeted company to plant a piece of malware. The man was arrested on August […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2020
Experts discovered a new hacker hacker-for-hire group that is targeting organizations worldwide with malware hidden inside malicious 3Ds Max plugins. Security researchers from Bitdefender discovered a new hacker group that is currently targeting companies across the world with malware hidden inside malicious 3Ds Max plugins. Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2020
A ransomware attack hit TFI International’s four Canadian courier divisions last week, Canpar Express, ICS Courier, Loomis Express and TForce Integrated Solutions. A couple of days after the transportation and logistics TFI International company raised millions of dollars in a share offering, the news of a ransomware attack against its four Canadian courier divisions (Canpar Express, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2020
Group-IB has detected financially motivated attacks carried out in June by newbie threat actors from Iran. The attackers used Dharma ransomware and a mix of publicly available tools to target companies in Russia, Japan, China, and India. All the affected organizations had hosts with Internet-facing RDP and weak credentials. The hackers typically demanded a ransom between 1-5 […]
