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Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2018

GoDaddy-owned hosting company Domainfactory hacked

The hosting company Domainfactory has taken down its forums after hackers posted messages claiming to have breached into its infrastructure. While I was writing about the Timehope security breach, another incident is making the headlines, the victim is the German hosting company Domainfactory. The hosting company, that was owned by GoDaddy since 2016, has taken […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2018

Timehop data breach, data from 21 million users exposed

Timehop, the service that aims to help people in finding new ways to connect with each other by analyzing past activities, has been hacked. Timehop is a service that aims to help people in finding new ways to connect with each other by analyzing past activities. “Timehop created the digital nostalgia category and continues to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2018

Hacker hijacked original LokiBot malware to sell samples in the wild

An expert found evidences that demonstrate the current distributed LokiBot malware samples were “hijacked” by a third actor. According to the researcher who goes online by the Twitter handle “d00rt,” samples of the LokiBot malware samples being distributed in the wild are modified versions of the original sample. I just released an article where are […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2018

HNS Botnet evolves and targets cross-platform database solutions

The HNS IoT botnet (Hide and Seek) originally discovered by BitDefender in January evolves and now targets cross-platform database solutions. Do you remember the Hide ‘N Seek (HNS) botnet? The IoT botnet Hide ‘N Seek botnet appeared in the threat landscape in January, when it was first spotted on January 10th by malware researchers from Bitdefender. It was first discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2018

New Rakhni variant could infect systems with either a ransomware or a miner

Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni malware that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner. Experts from Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni ransomware family that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner depending upon their configurations. “Way back in 2013 our malware analysts […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2018

Crooks leverage obfuscated Coinhive shortlink in a large crypto-mining operation

Crooks leverage an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies, they don’t inject the CoinHive JavaScript miner directly into compromised websites. Security researchers at MalwareLabs have uncovered a new crypto mining campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies, differently from other campaigns, crooks don’t inject the CoinHive JavaScript miner directly in compromised websites. CoinHive also […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2018

Adware already infected at least 78000 Fortnite Players

Rainway reported that tens of thousands of Fortnite players have been infected with an adware while downloading fake v-buck generators Fortnite continues to be one of the most popular game and crooks are attempting to target millions of fans in different ways. In June, experts observed cyber criminals attempting to exploit the interest in forthcoming Fortnite […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2018

The GandCrab ransomware V4 appears in the threat landscape

A new variant of the infamous GandCrab ransomware V4 was released during the weekend, experts shared details of the threat, A new version of the dreaded GandCrab ransomware (V4) was released during the weekend and according to the experts it included numerous changes. New #GandCrab version "V4" GANDCRAB V4 Ransomware – Remove and Restore .KRAB […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2018

Recently discovered OSX.Dummy mac malware is targeting the cryptocurrency community

The former NSA white hat hacker and malware researcher Patrick Wardle analyzed a new mac malware dubbed OSX.Dummy that targets the cryptocurrency community. The popular experts decided to analyze the malicious code after the security researcher Remco Verhoef (@remco_verhoef) posted an interesting entry to SANS ‘InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog’ titled “Crypto community target of MacOS […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2018

The popular online survey software Typeform suffered a security breach

Typeform, the popular online survey platform, has suffered a data breach that exposed partial data of some users, no payment card data was stolen. Typeform, the popular online survey platform, is the last victim of a data breach. Typeform software is widely adopted by businesses worldwide to easily arrange surveys, it allows easy creation of […]

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GoDaddy-owned hosting company Domainfactory hacked

Timehop data breach, data from 21 million users exposed

Hacker hijacked original LokiBot malware to sell samples in the wild

HNS Botnet evolves and targets cross-platform database solutions

New Rakhni variant could infect systems with either a ransomware or a miner

Crooks leverage obfuscated Coinhive shortlink in a large crypto-mining operation

Adware already infected at least 78000 Fortnite Players

The GandCrab ransomware V4 appears in the threat landscape

Recently discovered OSX.Dummy mac malware is targeting the cryptocurrency community

The popular online survey software Typeform suffered a security breach

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