Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2020
Doki, an undetectable Linux backdoor targets Docker Servers

Experts spotted an undetectable Linux malware that exploits undocumented techniques to evade detection and targets publicly accessible Docker servers Cybersecurity researchers at Intezer spotted a new completely undetectable Linux malware, dubbed Doki, that exploits undocumented evasion techniques while targeting publicly accessible Docker servers. The ongoing Ngrok mining botnet campaign is targeting servers are hosted on popular cloud platforms, including Alibaba […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
Pirate Ship Sailing to Developing World: Group-IB Uncovers Real Captains of Online Piracy Crew

Group-IB’s report uncovers major players and driving forces of a criminal digital piracy syndicate which has been flourishing in the post-Soviet space Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, today presented its report “Jolly Roger’s patrons. Group-IB exposes financial crime network of online pirates in developing countries.“ The document uncovers major players […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
QSnatch malware infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS Devices

US and UK cybersecurity agencies issued a joint advisory about the spread of QSnatch Data-Stealing Malware that already infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS devices. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a joint advisory about a massive ongoing campaign spreading the QSnatch data-stealing malware. The malicious code […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2020
Garmin says many of the systems are returning to operation

Smartwatch and wearable device maker Garmin announced that its computer networks were coming back after the ransomware attack that took place last week. Last week, on July 23, smartwatch and wearable device maker Garmin had to shut down some of its connected services and call centers following a ransomware attack. A few days after the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2020
Source code of Cerberus Android Trojan offered for sale for $100,000

The authors of the Android Cerberus banking trojan are auctioning the project for a price starting at $50,000, with $100K the deal could be immediately closed. The authors of the notorious Cerberus Android banking trojan are auctioning their project for a price starting at $50,000, but buyers could close the deal for $100,000. The overall […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2020
FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

The FBI issued an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been exploited to launch large-scale DDoS attacks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that abused new network protocols. “Cyber actors’ abuse of built-in network protocols […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2020
Spanish state-owned railway infrastructure manager ADIF infected with ransomware

ADIF, a Spanish state-owned railway infrastructure manager under the responsibility of the Ministry of Development, was hit by REVil ransomware operators. Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), a Spanish state-owned railway infrastructure manager was hit by REVil ransomware operators. ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias) is charged with the management of most of Spain’s railway infrastructure, that is the track, signaling and stations. It was formed in 2005 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2020
Prometei, a new modular crypto-mining botnet exploits Windows SMB

Prometei is a crypto-mining botnet that recently appeared in the threat landscape, it exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements. Security experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Prometei, that exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements.move laterally across systems while covertly mining for cryptocurrency.  The Prometei […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2020
US agencies offer $2M in reward for Ukrainian hackers that breached the SEC

The US State Department and Secret Service offered $2 million in reward money for help capturing two Ukrainian SEC hackers. The US State Department and Secret Service offered $2 million in reward money for help capturing two Ukrainian hackers that have been charged with hacking and selling insider corporate data stolen from the Securities and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2020
Phishing campaign aimed at stealing Office 365 logins abuses Google Cloud Services

Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging public cloud services such as Google Cloud Services in phishing campaigns against Office 365 users. Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing cloud services, such as Google Cloud Services, to arrange phishing campaign aimed at stealing Office 365 logins Fraudsters use to host phishing pages on multiple cloud services and trick victims into landing […]