Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2022
Experts spotted a new botnet named Orchard using Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s account information to generate malicious domains. 360 Netlab researchers recently discovered a new botnet named Orchard that uses Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin account (1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa) transaction information to generate DGA domain name. “Another change relates to the use of the DGA algorithm employed in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2022
Microsoft is actively blocking Tutanota email addresses from registering a Microsoft Teams account. Tutanota is an end-to-end encrypted email app and a freemium secure email service, as of March 2017, Tutanota’s owners claimed to have over 2 million users. The news is that Microsoft is actively blocking Tutanota email addresses from registering a Microsoft Teams […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2022
The cryptocurrency bridge Nomad is the last victim of a cyber heist, threat actors stole almost $200 million of its funds. Another crypto heist made the headlines, threat actors stole nearly $200 million worth of cryptocurrency from the bridge Nomad. Nomad Bridge is a cross-chain bridge between Ethereum, Moonbeam, Avalanche, Evmos and Milkomeda. The project […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2022
The crimeware group known as 8220 Gang expanded over the last month their Cloud Botnet to roughly 30,000 hosts globally. Researchers from SentinelOne reported that low-skill crimeware 8220 Gang has expanded their Cloud Botnet over the last month to roughly 30,000 hosts globally. The gang focuses on infecting cloud hosts to deploy cryptocurrency miners by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2022
The U.S. FBI has warned of crooks developing malicious cryptocurrency-themed apps to steal crypto assets from the users. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of crooks creating malicious cryptocurrency-themed apps to steal crypto assets from investors. Crooks contact US investors claiming to offer legitimate cryptocurrency investment services, and attempt to trick them […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2022
The Tor Project team has announced the release of Tor Browser 11.5, which introduces functionalities to automatically bypass censorship. The Tor Project team has announced the release of Tor Browser 11.5, the new version of the popular privacy-oriented browser implements new features to fight censorship. With previous versions of the browser, circumventing censorship of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2022
Threat actors hacked the popular NFT platform, Premint NFT and stole 314 NFTs. The popular NFT platform, Premint NFT, was hacked, the threat actors compromised its official website and stole 314 NFTs. According to the experts from blockchain security firm CertiK, this is one of the biggest NFT hacks on record. The analysis of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2022
Threat actors used a fake job offer on LinkedIn to target an employee at Axie Infinity that resulted in the theft of $540 Million. In March, threat actors stole almost $625 million in Ethereum and USDC (a U.S. dollar pegged stablecoin) tokens from Axie Infinityâs Ronin network bridge. The attack took place on March 23rd, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2022
This is a transcription of my complete interview with the program NEWSFEED at TRT, during which we discussed NGL software and the risks of bullying. Why are anonymous social apps like NGL cause for concern? What exactly makes them dangerous for minors? We have long debated the potential impact of social media on the mental […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2022
Microsoft spotted a cloud threat actor tracked as 8220 that is now targeting Linux servers in a long-running cryptomining campaign. Microsoft Security Intelligence experts are warning of a long-running campaign conducted by a cloud threat actor group, tracked as 8220, that is now targeting Linux servers to install crypto miners. “We observed notable updates to […]
