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Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2018

Kelihos botmaster pleads guilty in U.S. District Court in Connecticut

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

Cobalt crime gang is using again CobInt malware in attacks on former soviet states

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

MageCart crime gang is behind the British Airways data breach

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

Other 3,700 MikroTik Routers compromised in cryptoJacking campaigns

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

GAO Report shed the lights on the failures behind the Equifax hack

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

Mirai and Gafgyt target Apache Struts and SonicWall to hit enterprises

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

Fallout exploit kit appeared in the threat landscape in malvertising campaigns

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

Security Affairs newsletter Round 179 – News of the week

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

Russian citizen behind JPMorgan Chase and Dow Jones attacks has been extradited to US

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

Police arrested Apophis Squad member responsible for ProtonMail DDoS attack

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 “7R1D3N7,” “DoubleParallax” and “optcz1,”was arrested on August 31 and is still in […]

Cyber Crime

Kelihos botmaster pleads guilty in U.S. District Court in Connecticut

Cobalt crime gang is using again CobInt malware in attacks on former soviet states

MageCart crime gang is behind the British Airways data breach

Other 3,700 MikroTik Routers compromised in cryptoJacking campaigns

GAO Report shed the lights on the failures behind the Equifax hack

Mirai and Gafgyt target Apache Struts and SonicWall to hit enterprises

Fallout exploit kit appeared in the threat landscape in malvertising campaigns

Security Affairs newsletter Round 179 – News of the week

Russian citizen behind JPMorgan Chase and Dow Jones attacks has been extradited to US

Police arrested Apophis Squad member responsible for ProtonMail DDoS attack

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