Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2018
Data breaches are costly for businesses that expterience them, this data fuel the black markets and sometime are offered to complanies as legitimate data. Data breaches are extraordinarily costly for businesses that experience them, both concerning reputational damage and money spent to repair the issues associated with those fiascos. And, on the consumer side of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2018
Industrial sector hit by a surgical spear-phishing campaign aimed at installing legitimate remote administration software on victims’ machines. Attackers carried out a spear-phishing campaign against entities in the industrial sector, the messages disguised as commercial offers where used by attackers to deliver a legitimate remote administration software on victims’ systems (TeamViewer or Remote Manipulator System/Remote […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2018
Ten years ago someone breached into a server of the Yale University, but because the intrusion happened nearly ten years ago there is much more information about how it occurred. After ten years, Yale University revealed a security breach that exposed an archive containing personal information of 119,000 people. Hackers breached into the database of the famous […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2018
The security experts from Sophos have published a report on the multimillion-dollar black market business for crooks, they analyzed the SamSam ransomware case as a case study. The researchers that have tracked Bitcoin addresses managed by the crime gang discovered that crooks behind the SamSam ransomware had extorted nearly $6 million from the victims since December […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2018
New revelations on the attack against COSCO confirm it was worse than initially thought, the ransomware spread beyond the US network. Chinese shipping giant COSCO recently suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted some systems of the company in the United States. The shipping company quickly isolates the systems to avoid propagation to other regions and started […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2018
Dixons Carphone announced on Monday that the security breach discovered in June affected around 10 million customers, much more than the initial estimate. Dixons Carphone, one of the largest European consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers, suffered a major data breach in 2017, but new data related to the incident have been shared. The situation was worse […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2018
A new sophisticated version of the AZORult Spyware was spotted in the wild, it was involved in a large email campaign on July 18 Malware researchers at Proofpoint spotted a new version of the AZORult Spyware in the wild, it was involved in a large email campaign on July 18, just 24 hours it appeared […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2018
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new cryptocurrency miner dubbed PowerGhost that can spread leveraging a fileless infection technique. The PowerGhost miner targets large corporate networks, infecting both workstations and servers, it employing multiple fileless techniques to evade detection. “The malware, which we dubbed PowerGhost, is capable of stealthily establishing itself in a system and spreading […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2018
ICO platforms are becoming a privileged target for hackers, the last victim in order of time is KickICO, a Blockchain crowdfunding website for ICO. On Friday, KickICO disclosed a security breach, according to the platform attackers accessed to its wallets and stole over 70 million KICK tokens (roughly $7.7 million at the time). The incident occurred on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2018
Security experts from FireEye have spotted a new spam campaign leveraging the FELIXROOT backdoor, a malware used for cyber espionage operation. The FELIXROOT backdoor was first spotted by FireEye in September 2017, when attackers used it in attacks targeting Ukrainians. The new spam campaign used weaponized documents claiming to provide information on a seminar on environmental protection efforts. […]
