Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2018
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
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2018
An unknown hacker made over $18 Million worth of BTG (Bitcoin Gold) powering “double spend” attacks on the Bitcoin Gold cryptocurrency network. The attacks started on May 18, the attacker used a large number of servers that allowed him to take the control of the majority of the Bitcoin Gold’s network hashrate, an attack technique dubbed “51% […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2018
In the past weeks, many Mac users have been infected with a new strain of Monero miner, the infections confirm the rise of this kind of malware. According to researchers at Malwarebytes, many Mac users in the past weeks have been infected with a new strain of Monero miner. The owners of the infected Mac systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2018
Security experts from Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered the operators behind the TheMoon botnet are now leveraging a zero-day exploit to target GPON routers. Researchers from security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab reported that cybercriminals are continuing to target the Dasan GPON routers, they recently spotted threat actors using another new zero-day flaw affecting the same routers and recruit them in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2018
Roaming Mantis malware initially targeting Android devices, now has broadened both its geographic range and its targets. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab discovered that the operators behind the Roaming Mantis campaign continue to improve their malware broadening their targets, their geographic range and their functional scope. Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2018
Crooks are exploiting known vulnerabilities in the popular Drupal CMS such as Drupalgeddon2 and Drupalgeddon3 to deliver cryptocurrency miners, remote administration tools (RATs) and tech support scams. Security experts at Malwarebytes reported that compromised Drupal websites are used to deliver cryptocurrency miners, remote administration tools (RATs) and tech support scams. Crooks are exploiting known vulnerabilities in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2018
Crook faces up to 35 years in prison for operating the popular Scan4You counter anti-virus (CAV) website that helped malware authors to test the evasion capabilities of their codes. Scan4You is a familiar service for malware developers that used it as a counter anti-virus (CAV). Scan4You allowed vxers to check their malware against as many […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2018
Security experts from Fortinet have spotted a new variant of the Mirai botnet dubbed ‘Wicked Mirai’, it includes new exploits and spread a new bot. The name Wicked Mirai comes from the strings in the code, the experts discovered that this new variant includes at least three new exploits compared to the original one. “The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2018
DrayTek routers are affected by a zero-day vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to change DNS settings on some models. Routers manufactured by the Taiwan-based vendor DrayTek are affected by a zero-day vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to change DNS settings on some of its routers. DrayTek confirmed to be aware that hackers are attempting […]
