Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2023
The BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang claims to have stolen 80GB of data from the Reddit in February cyberattack. In February, the social news aggregation platform Reddit suffered a security breach, attackers gained unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some business systems. The company announced it was hit by a sophisticated and highly-targeted attack that took […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2023
The U.S. government announced up to a $10 million bounty for information linking the Clop ransomware gang to a foreign government. The US goverment is offering up to a $10 million bounty for information linking CL0P Ransomware Gang or any other threat actors targeting U.S. critical infrastructure to a foreign government. The bounty is covered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2023
Polish police, as part of the international law enforcement operation PowerOFF, dismantled a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. An international operation codenamed PowerOff led to the shutdown of a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. The operation was conducted by the Polish Central Bureau for Combating […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2023
DoJ charged a Russian national with conspiring to carry out LockBit ransomware attacks against U.S. and foreign businesses. The Justice Department announced charges against the Russian national Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov (20) for his role in numerous LockBit ransomware attacks against systems in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Africa. The US authorities arrested the man […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2023
British multinational oil and gas company Shell has confirmed that it has suffered a ransomware attack conducted by the Clop group. Oil and Gas giant Shell has confirmed that it is one of the victims of the recent large-scale ransomware campaign conducted by the Clop gang exploiting a MOVEit zero-day vulnerability Threat actors are actively exploiting the zero-day vulnerability, tracked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2023
Progress Software addressed a third vulnerability impacting its MOVEit Transfer application that could lead to privilege escalation and information disclosure. Progress Software disclosed a new SQL injection vulnerability impacting its MOVEit Transfer application, it is the third issue fixed by the company after: “Progress has discovered a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer that could lead to escalated privileges […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2023
An updated version of the Android remote access trojan GravityRAT can steal WhatsApp backup files and can delete files ESET researchers discovered an updated version of Android GravityRAT spyware that steals WhatsApp backup files and can delete files. The malware is distributed as the messaging apps BingeChat and Chatico. MalwareHunterTeam researchers first shared the hash for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2023
The LockBit ransomware group successfully extorted roughly $91 million from approximately 1,700 U.S. organizations since 2020. According to a joint advisory published by cybersecurity agencies, the LockBit ransomware group has successfully extorted roughly $91 million in about 1,700 attacks against U.S. organizations since 2020. The advisory was published by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2023
St. Margaretâs Health in Illinois is partly closing operations at its hospitals due to a 2021 ransomware attack that impacted its payment system. In February 2021a ransomware attack hit the St. Margaretâs Health in Illinois and forced the organization to shutdown of IT infrastructure at the Spring Valley hospital to contain the threat. The cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2023
A database containing the personal information of more than 8.9 million Zacks Investment Research users was leaked on a cybercrime forum. A database containing personal information of 8,929,503 Zacks Investment Research users emerged on a popular hacking forum on June 10, 2023. Zacks is the leading investment research firm focusing on stock research, analysis, and recommendations. The availability of the archive […]
