Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2018
Rail Europe North America (RENA) notifies customers of a security breach, crooks compromised its website with a malware used to siphon payment card data. The website allows users to buy European train tickets, according to the company the data breach lasted at least three months (between November 29, 2017 and February 16, 2018), the incident exposed also customers’ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2018
Security firm F5 detailed recently discovered campaigns leveraging the Panda Banker malware to target financial institution, the largest one aimed the banks in the US. Researchers at security firm F5 recently detected several campaigns leveraging the Panda Banker malware to target financial institution, the largest one aimed the banks in the US. In March, security researchers at Arbor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2018
Brinker International warns customers who recently paid with their payment card at a Chiliâs restaurant may have had their financial data stolen by crooks. On May 11, Brinker International company, which operates more than 1,600 Chiliâs and Maggianoâs restaurants across 31 countries worldwide, announced to have suffered a data breach. “This notice is to make you […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2018
The Nigelthorn malware has already infected over 100,000 systems in 100 countries by abusing a Google Chrome extension called Nigelify. A new strain of malware, dubbed Nigelthorn malware because it abuses a Google Chrome extension called Nigelify, has already infected over 100,000 systems in 100 countries, most of them in the Philippines, Venezuela, and Ecuador (Over 75%). The new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2018
WannaCry ransomware outbreak anniversary – According to researchers from ESET, the popularity of EternalBlue increase significantly over the past months. Exactly one year ago, on May 12, the WannaCry ransomware infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. The success of the malware was the use of the EternalBlue exploit that was stolen by Shadow Brokers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2018
Security experts at Flashpoint confirmed the availability online for the source code of the TreasureHunter PoS malware since March. The researchers found evidence that the threat has been around since at least late 2014. TreasureHunt was first discovered by researchers at the SANS Institute who noticed the malware generating mutex names to evade detection. TreasureHunt enumerates the processes running on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2018
The FBIâs Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2017 Internet Crime Report, a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2017 Internet Crime Report, one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends in the last 12 months. The first figure that captures […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2018
Recently security experts discovered two critical vulnerabilities in the Drupal CMS (CVE-2018-7600 and CVE-2018-7602), and cybercriminals promptly attempted to exploit them in the wild. The hackers started using the exploits for the above vulnerabilities to compromise drupal installs, mostly cryptocurrency mining. It has been estimated that potentially over one million Drupal websites are vulnerable to cyber attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2018
The latest variant of the SynAck ransomware now includes a number of novel and complex anti-detection techniques, including one that was only made published by security researchers in December 2017. When it originally appeared on the scene, SynAck ransomware didn’t seem unique or outstanding. It was marginally effective, but it wasn’t going to force enterprises […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2018
Cybercriminals are targeting Airbnb users with phishing emails that urge the compliance with the new privacy regulation General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)  privacy laws threaten with severe penalties to demand personal information from Airbnb users. The interest on the subject is very high among professionals and companies operating in various […]
