Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2025
Phishers abuse CrowdStrike brand targeting job seekers with cryptominer

CrowdStrike warns of a phishing campaign that uses its recruitment branding to trick recipients into downloading a fake application, which finally installs the XMRig cryptominer. CrowdStrike discovered a phishing campaign using its recruitment branding to trick recipients into downloading a fake application, which acts as a downloader for the XMRig cryptominer. The cybersecurity firm discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2025
U.S. Medical billing provider Medusind suffered a sata breach

Medusind, a medical billing provider, disclosed a data breach that occurred in December 2023 and affected over 360,000 individuals. Medusind is a company that provides medical billing, coding, and revenue cycle management (RCM) services to healthcare organizations, including medical practices, dental practices, and other providers. The company disclosed a data breach discovered on December 29, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2025
Gayfemboy Botnet targets Four-Faith router vulnerability

Gayfemboy, a Mirai botnet variant, has been exploiting a flaw in Four-Faith industrial routers to launch DDoS attacks since November 2024. The Gayfemboy botnet was first identified in February 2024, it borrows the code from the basic Mirai variant and now integrates N-day and 0-day exploits. By November 2024, Gayfemboy exploited 0-day vulnerabilities in Four-Faith […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2025
PLAYFULGHOST backdoor supports multiple information stealing features

PLAYFULGHOST is a new malware family with capabilities including keylogging, screen and audio capture, remote shell access, and file transfer/execution. Google researchers analyzed a new malware family called PLAYFULGHOST that supports multiple features, including keylogging, screen and audio capture, remote shell, and file transfer/execution. The PLAYFULGHOST backdoor shares functionality with Gh0st RAT whose source code was publicly released in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2025
A US soldier was arrested for leaking presidential call logs

US authorities have arrested soldier Cameron John Wagenius for his alleged involvement in leaking presidential phone records. US authorities arrested Cameron John Wagenius (20), a US Army soldier, suspected of involvement in leaking presidential call logs. The soldier was arrested in Fort Hood, Texas, he is suspected to be the hacker who using the moniker […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2024
Rhode Island ’s data from health benefits system leaked on the dark web

Rhode Island ’s health benefits system was hacked, and threat actors leaked residents’ data on the dark web. Cybercriminals leaked data stolen from Rhode Island ‘s health benefits system on the dark web. Gov. Daniel McKee stated the state had prepared for this and is informing impacted individuals. RIBridges supports state programs like Medicaid, SNAP, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2024
ZAGG disclosed a data breach that exposed its customers’ credit card data

ZAGG Inc. notifies customers of credit card data breach, after threat actors hacked a third-party app from its e-commerce provider. ZAGG Inc. disclosed a data breach that exposed its customers’ credit card data after threat actors hacked a third-party application from its e-commerce provider BigCommerce. The company has not disclosed the number of impacted customers were […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2024
A ransomware attack disrupted services at Pittsburgh Regional Transit

A ransomware attack on Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) was the root cause of the agency’s service disruptions. On December 23, 2024, Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) announced it was actively responding to a ransomware attack that was first detected on Thursday, December 19. Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) is the public transportation agency that serves the Pittsburgh […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2024
Romanian national was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks

Romanian national was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks, pleading guilty to fraud charges in June. Romanian national Daniel Christian Hulea, 30, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks. Hulea pleaded guilty to computer fraud conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy on […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2024
Raccoon Infostealer operator sentenced to 60 months in prison

Raccoon Infostealer operator Mark Sokolovsky was sentenced to 60 months in US prison and ordered to pay over $910,000 in restitution. The US Department of Justice sentenced the Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky (28) for his role in the distribution of the Raccoon Infostealer malware. “Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky was sentenced today to 60 months in […]