Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2023
The admins of the darkweb Genesis Market announced the sale of their platform to a threat actor that will restart operations next month. In April, the FBI seized the Genesis Market, a black marketplace for stolen credentials that was launched in 2017. Genesis Market was an invite-only marketplace, but it was not complex to find invite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2023
The owner of the BreachForums Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, pleads guilty to hacking charges. The owner of the BreachForums Conor Brian Fitzpatrick agrees to plead guilty to a three-count criminal information charging the defendant with conspiracy to commit access device fraud, solicitation for the purpose of offering access devices, and possession of child pornography. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2023
The WormGPT case: How Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the capabilities of cybercriminals and allows them to launch sophisticated attacks. Researchers from SlashNext warn of the dangers related to a new generative AI cybercrime tool dubbed WormGPT. Since chatbots like ChatGPT made the headlines, cybersecurity experts warned of potential abuses of Generative artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2023
A new malware dubbed AVrecon targets small office/home office (SOHO) routers, it infected over 70,000 devices from 20 countries. Lumen Black Lotus Labs uncovered a long-running hacking campaign targeting SOHO routers with a strain of malware dubbed AVrecon. The malware was spotted the first time in May 2021, but has been operating under the radar for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2023
CyberNews researchers discovered that at least one of the Cl0p ransomware gang masterminds is still residing in Ukraine. Original post at: https://cybernews.com/security/cl0p-hacker-hides-in-ukraine/ As the Cl0p ransomware gang continues to sow anxiety worldwide, affecting prominent companies like the BBC and Deutsche Bank, at least one of the gang masterminds, Cybernews discovered, is still residing in Ukraine. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2023
Resecurity identified the emergence of adversarial mobile Android-based Antidetect Tooling for Mobile OS-Based Fraud. Resecurity has identified the emergence of adversarial mobile Android-based tools (called “mobile anti-detects”), like Enclave and McFly, as a new frontier in fraud tradecraft evolution. These tools are used by criminals involved in online-banking theft to impersonate compromised account holders and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2023
A zero-day vulnerability in the Revolut payment systems allowed threat actors to steal more than $20 million in early 2022. In early 2022, threat actors exploited a zero-day flaw in Revolut payment systems to steal more than $20 million, reported the Financial Times quoting multiple unnamed sources. The issue resulted from differences between American and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2023
A man from Tracy, California, has been charged with a computer attack on the Discovery Bay water treatment facility. Rambler Gallo (53), a man from Tracy (California) has been charged with intentionally causing damage to a computer after he allegedly breached the network of the Discovery Bay Water Treatment Facility. The man targeted the water […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2023
CISA and the FBI warned today of a new Truebot variant employed in attacks against organizations in the United States and Canada. A new variant of the Truebot malware was used in attacks against organizations in the United States and Canada. Threat actors compromised target networks by exploiting a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2023
RedEnergy is a sophisticated stealer-as-a-ransomware that was employed in attacks targeting energy utilities, oil, gas, telecom, and machinery sectors. Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered a new Stealer-as-a-Ransomware named RedEnergy used in attacks against energy utilities, oil, gas, telecom, and machinery sectors. The malware allows operators to steal information from various browsers, it also supports ransomware capabilities. […]
