Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2024
A botnet employed in DDoS or cryptomining attacks is exploiting a zero-day in end-of-life GeoVision devices to grow up. Researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation observed a botnet exploiting a zero-day in GeoVision EOL (end-of-Life) devices to compromise devices in the wild. The GeoVision zero-day, tracked as CVE-2024-11120 (CVSS 9.8), is a pre-auth command injection vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2024
The Glove Stealer malware exploits a new technique to bypass Chrome’s App-Bound encryption and steal browser cookies. Glove Stealer is a .NET-based information stealer that targets browser extensions and locally installed software to steal sensitive data. The malware could harvest a huge trove of data from infected systems, including cookies, autofill, cryptocurrency wallets, 2FA authenticators, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2024
Bitfinex hacker, Ilya Lichtenstein, who stole 1 billion worth of Bitcoins from Bitfinex in 2016, has been sentenced to five years in prison. “Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced today to five years in prison for his involvement in a money laundering conspiracy arising from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, a global […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2024
Bitdefender released a decryptor for the ShrinkLocker ransomware, which modifies BitLocker configurations to encrypt a system’s drives. ShrinkLocker ransomware was first discovered in May 2024 by researchers from Kaspersky. Unlike modern ransomware it doesn’t rely on sophisticated encryption algorithms and modifies BitLocker configurations to encrypt a system’s drives. It first checks if BitLocker is enabled […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2024
New Ymir ransomware was deployed in attacks shortly after systems were breached by RustyStealer malware, Kaspersky warns. Kaspersky researchers discovered a new ransomware family, called Ymir ransomware, which attackers deployed after breaching systems via PowerShell commands. Ymir includes detection-evasion features, executing tasks in memory using functions like malloc, memmove, and memcmp. Attackers initially accessed systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2024
Amazon disclosed a data breach exposing employee data, with information allegedly stolen in the May 2023 MOVEit attacks. Amazon disclosed a data breach that exposed employee information after data was allegedly stolen during the May 2023 MOVEit attacks. The company said that the data was stolen from a third-party vendor. Amazon did not disclose the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2024
Fortinet researchers discovered a new phishing campaign spreading a variant of the commercial malware Remcos RAT. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs recently uncovered a phishing campaign spreading a new variant of the Remcos RAT. Remcos is a commercial remote administration tool (RAT) that is sold online to allow buyers remote control over computers. Threat actors use Remcos […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2024
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. CRON#TRAP: Emulated Linux Environments as the Latest Tactic in Malware Staging Typosquat Campaign Targeting npm Developers ToxicPanda: […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2024
A critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-40711, in Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) was also recently exploited to deploy Frag ransomware. In mid-October, Sophos researchers warned that ransomware operators are exploiting the critical vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 in Veeam Backup & Replication to create rogue accounts and deploy malware. In early September 2024, Veeam released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2024
Texas oilfield supplier Newpark Resources suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted its information systems and business applications. Texas oilfield supplier Newpark Resources revealed that a ransomware attack on October 29 disrupted access to some of its information systems and business applications. The company immediately activated its cybersecurity response plan and launched an investigation into the […]
