Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2018
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2018
The sportswear company Adidas announced that it has launched an investigation after learning of a potential security breach that could impact millions of its US customers. Adidas published a security alert to warn that hackers may have stolen customer data from its US website. The German sportswear company confirmed that attackers may have had unauthorized access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2018
The development team of the Gentoo Linux distribution notifies users that hackers compromised one of the GitHub accounts and planted a malicious code. Developers of the Gentoo Linux distribution announced that hackers compromised one of the GitHub accounts used by the organization and planted a malicious code. “Today 28 June at approximately 20:20 UTC unknown […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2018
The entertainment ticketing service Ticketmaster announced it has suffered a data breach that exposed personal and payment customer information. Hackers accessed name, address, email address, telephone number, payment details and Ticketmaster login details of company customers. According to the company, attackers installed a malicious code on customer support product hosted by Inbenta Technologies, an external […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2018
Experts from Cisco’s Talos team released a free decryption tool for the Thanatos ransomware to recover the files without paying the ransom. The Thanatos ransomware first appeared in the threat landscape in February when it was discovered by researchers at the MalwareHunterTeam. The experts from Talos believe the malware is being actively developed, it was being distributed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2018
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and Group-IB have detained cybercriminals who broke into the accounts of 700,000 customers of popular Internet stores The Administration “K” of the MIA of Russia, with the assistance of Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks and the development of information security products, […]
