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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2018
An investigation conducted by researchers at RiskIQ revealed that the responsible of the British Airways data breach is a crime gang tracked as MageCart. The responsible of the recently disclosed British Airways data breach is a crime gang tracked as MageCart. The group has been active since at least 2015 and compromised many e-commerce websites to steal payment card and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2018
Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. The exploit code for the CVE-2018-14847 vulnerabilities is becoming a commodity in the hacking underground, just after its disclosure crooks started using it to compromise MikroTik routers. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2018
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) provides detailed information of the Equifax hack. The Equifax hack occurred in May 2017 when attackers exploited the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability in the Jakarta Multipart parser upload function. The flaw allowed the attacker to make a maliciously crafted request to an Apache web server and gain access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2018
Security experts with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks have discovered new variants of the Mirai and Gafgyt IoT malware targeting enterprises. Both botnets appear very interesting for two main reasons: The new Mirai variant targets the same Apache Struts vulnerability exploited in the 2017 Equifax data breach. The vulnerability affects the Jakarta Multipart parser upload […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2018
At the end of August, security experts discovered a new exploit kit called Fallout that is being used to distribute the GandCrab ransomware. At the end of August, the threat analyst nao_sec discovered a new exploit kit called Fallout that is being used to distribute the GandCrab ransomware and other malicious codes, including droppers and potentially unwanted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 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! ·     John McAfees Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet was hacked by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2018
Andrei Tyurin, the man that is accused to be the responsible for major cyber attacks against financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, was extradited to the United States from Georgia. The Russian citizen Andrei Tyurin (35) was extradited to the United States from Georgia on Friday, the man charged over the massive theft of customer data from JPMorgan Chase […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2018
UK NCA arrested a member of the Apophis Squad hacker group that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against many organizations, including ProtonMail. The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the arrest of the 19-year-old George Duke-Cohan from Hertfordshire that was involved in the ProtonMail DDoS attack. The teenager, aka â7R1D3N7,â âDoubleParallaxâ and âoptcz1,âwas arrested on August 31 and is still in […]
