Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. I’m following the evolution of Mirai botnet since MalwareMustDie shared with me the findings of its investigation in August 2016. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. The first data that emerged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2018
Palo Alto Network researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as XBash, that combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new piece of malware, dubbed XBash piece that is targeting both Linux and Microsoft Windows servers. Xbash was developed using Python, then the authors converted into […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2018
Greek authorities have approved the extradition of Russian Alexander Vinnik to Russia, Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece overruled previous ones. The Greek authorities have approved the extradition of Russian Alexander Vinnik to Russia, the decision has surprised the media because the man was expected to be extradited in the US or France as previously announces. The decision […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2018
The gambling application EOSBet was affected by a vulnerability in its smart contract system that has been exploited by attackers to steal $200,000 worth of EOS. The security breach was first reported by the member âthbourloveâ of the EOSBet Reddit community that shared the code used to exploit the flaw. After seeing the exploit code, the EOSBetâs official Reddit account […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2018
The Bristol Airport was hit by a cyber attack that caused problems with operations, flight display screens were taken offline for two days. The Bristol Airport was hit by a ransomware-based attack that caused problems to the flight display screens for two entire days. The news reported by the BBC and was confirmed by an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2018
MageCart cyber gang compromised the cloud service firm Feedify and stole payment card data from customers of hundreds of e-commerce sites. MageCart crime gang appears very active in this period, payment card data from customers of hundreds of e-commerce websites may have been stolen due to the compromise of the cloud service firm Feedify. Cloud service firm Feedify has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·     Domestic Kitten â An Iranian surveillance operation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2018
The creator of the infamous Kelihos Botnet, Peter Yuryevich Levashov (38) pleaded guilty this week to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. Yuryevich Levashov (38), the botmaster of the dreaded Kelihos Botnet pleaded guilty this week to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. In April 2017, the United States Department of Justice announced that Peter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2018
The Russian Cobalt crime gang was particularly active in the last month, a new report confirms a massive use of the CobInt malware in recent attacks. Security researchers from Proofpoint reported the massive use of the CobInt malware by the Cobalt group in recent attacks. The Cobalt name is based on the association of the […]
