Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2018
A security researcher discovered email addresses and hashed passwords of roughly 92.3 million Myheritage users stored on a private server outside the company. The huge trove of data was contained in a file named “,” according to the experts the information is authentic and comes from Myheritage. “Today, June 4, 2018 at approximately 1pm EST, MyHeritage’s Chief […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2018
The author of the Sigrun Ransomware is providing the decryption key to Russian victims for free, others have to pay a ransom of $2,500 worth of Bitcoin or Dash for the victims. We have reported several cases where Russian malware authors avoid infecting computers in their country, but the case we are going to discuss is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2018
Security experts at security firm Intezer have recently discovered backdoor, associated with the operation of the Iron cybercrime group, that is based on the leaked source code of Remote Control System (RCS). The Remote Control System (RCS) is the surveillance software developed by the HackingTeam, it was considered a powerful malware that is able to infect also mobile […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2018
According to the security experts at Imperva firm, three open Redis servers out of four are infected with malware. The discovery is the result of analysis conducted by running Redis-based honeypot servers for some months. Since their initial report on the RedisWannaMine attack that propagates through open Redis and Windows servers, the experts from Imperva have discovered a new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2018
Cyber criminals recently added the code for the CVE-2018-8174 Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability to the infamous RIG exploit kit. Crooks recently added the code for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability to the infamous RIG exploit kit. The Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-8174, was first discovered a few weeks ago, it affects VBScript implemented in Internet Explorer and Microsoft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2018
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
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
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 $1.3 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
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 […]
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