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Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2018

Crooks expand the original Mirai botnet code base with new capabilities and improvements

Cybercriminals continue to improve the infamous Mirai botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities, experts warn new dangerous variant will appear in the wild. According to Netscout’s Arbor Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT), cybercriminals continue to improve the dreaded Mirai IoT botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities. The time to market of new Mirai botnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2018

At least 90,000 Canadian bank customers may have been affected by two data breach

On Monday, Two Canada’s five largest banks, the Bank of Montreal (BMO) and Simplii Financial, informed their customers they are investigating a data breach. The security breach suffered by the Bank of Montreal (BMO) may have impacted less than 50,000 of the overall 8 million customers, the incident suffered by Simplii Financial may have exposed information of 40,000 clients. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2018

New Banking Trojan MnuBot uses SQL Server for Command and Control

Researchers at IBM X-Force Research team discovered a new Delphi-based banking Trojan dubbed MnuBot that leverages Microsoft SQL Server for communication with the command and control (C&C). The MnuBot Trojan implements a two-stage attack flow, it is composed of two main components that are tasked for the two stages. In the first stage, the malware searches for a file […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2018

Hacker stole $1.35 million from cryptocurrency startup Taylor

Hacker stole $1.3 million from cryptocurrency startup Taylor, the development team will stop the launch of its trading app that was initially planned for this month. The author of the Taylor cryptocurrency trading app announced a security breach, an unknown hacker has stolen around $1.35 million worth of Ether from the wallets of the company. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2018

The Cobalt Hacking crew is still active even after the arrest of its leader

Group-IB has released a new report on Cobalt group’s attacks against banks and financial sector organizations worldwide after the arrest of its leader. Threat intelligence firm Group-IB published an interesting report titiled “Cobalt: Evolution and Joint Operations” on the joint operations of Cobalt and Anunak (Carbanak) groups after the arrest of the leader in March 2018. Researchers reported that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2018

BackSwap Trojan implements new techniques to steal funds from your bank account

Security experts at ESET have spotted a new strain of banking trojan named BackSwap Trojan that implements new techniques to steal money from bank customers. The new techniques allow the malware to bypass anti-malware solutions and security features implemented by browsers to prevent Man-In-The-Browser attacks. Banking malware use to inject malicious code into the web page, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2018

MalHide Malware uses the compromised system as an eMail relay

The cybersecurity experts Marco Ramilli analyzed a new sample of malware dubbed MalHide that implements a quite new attack path to use the compromised system as eMail relay in order to hide the attacker networks. Today I’d like to share an interesting (at least to me) analysis on a given sample. I have called this sample MalHide but […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2018

Experts noticed an ongoing activity involving the RIG Exploit Kit to deliver the Grobios Trojan

Malware researchers from FireEye recently noticed an interesting ongoing activity involving the infamous RIG Exploit Kit (EK) to deliver the Grobios Trojan. Security experts highlighted several times the decline of the exploit kit activity after the disappearance of the Angler and Nuclear exploit kits in 2016. Anyway, researchers at FireEye periodically observe significant developments in this […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2018

A bug in T-Mobile site allowed anyone see any customer’s account details

A flaw in T-Mobile’s website allowed anyone to access the personal account details of any customer by providing their mobile number. The bug discovered by the researcher Ryan Stevenson resides in the T-Mobile subdomain promotool.t-mobile.com used by the staff as a customer care portal to access the company’s internal tools. The promotool.t-mobile.com subdomain contained a hidden API that would […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2018

Russian speaking hacker arrested for stealing $8,000 per day leveraging mobile malware

Moscow, May 24, 2018 – law enforcement, with support from Group-IB, has arrested a 32-year-old hacker, accused of stealing funds from Russian banks’ customers using Android mobile malware. At the height of their activity, victims reportedly lost between 1,500 to 8,000 dollars daily and levered cryptocurrency for laundering. Group-IB’s analysis reviewed the tools and techniques […]

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Crooks expand the original Mirai botnet code base with new capabilities and improvements

At least 90,000 Canadian bank customers may have been affected by two data breach

New Banking Trojan MnuBot uses SQL Server for Command and Control

Hacker stole $1.35 million from cryptocurrency startup Taylor

The Cobalt Hacking crew is still active even after the arrest of its leader

BackSwap Trojan implements new techniques to steal funds from your bank account

MalHide Malware uses the compromised system as an eMail relay

Experts noticed an ongoing activity involving the RIG Exploit Kit to deliver the Grobios Trojan

A bug in T-Mobile site allowed anyone see any customer’s account details

Russian speaking hacker arrested for stealing $8,000 per day leveraging mobile malware

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