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Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2020
COVID-19 themed attacks December 6 – December 19, 2020

This post includes the details of the COVID-19 themed attacks launched from December 6 – December 19, 2020. December 6 – Drug dealers are selling Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines on the darkweb While the United Kingdom announced the distribution of the COVID19 vaccine to the population drug dealers is selling ‘Pfizer COVID Vaccines.’ December 10 – […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2020
FBI and Interpol shut down some servers of Joker’s Stash carding marketplace

Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online, was shut down by a coordinated operation conducted by the FBI and the Interpol. Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online, was shut down as a result of a coordinated operation conducted by the FBI and the Interpol. The Joker’s Stash carding platform has been active since October […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2020
Hackers target COVID-19 vaccine supply chain and sell the vaccine in Darkweb

Threat actors continue to trade critical medical data in the Dark Web while organizations are involved in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cybercrime organizations continue to be very active while pharmaceutical organizations are involved in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine and medicines to cure the infections. Experts from Cyble discovered in several forums on the dark web, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2020
Microsoft confirms breach in SolarWinds hack, but denies its clients were affected

Microsoft confirms that it was also breached in the SolarWinds supply chain hack, but excluded that the attack impacted its customers. Microsoft has confirmed that it was one of the companies breached in the recent SolarWinds supply chain attack, but the IT giant denied that the nation-state actors compromised its software supply-chain to infect its […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2020
5 million WordPress sites potentially impacted by a Contact Form 7 flaw

The development team behind the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin discloses an unrestricted file upload vulnerability. Jinson Varghese Behanan from Astra Security discovered an unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the popular Contact Form 7 WordPress vulnerability. The WordPress plugin allows users to add multiple contact forms on their site.  “By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers could simply upload files of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2020
DoppelPaymer ransomware gang now cold-calling victims, FBI warns

FBI says DoppelPaymer ransomware gang is harassing victims who refuse to pay, threatening to send individuals to their homes. FBI is warning of a new escalation in the extortion activities of the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang, the operators have been calling victims, threatening to send individuals to their homes if they don’t pay the ransom. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2020
Digging the recently leaked Chinese Communist Party database

KELA researchers analyzed a database recently leaked online that contains data for 1.9 million Chinese Communist Party members in Shanghai. After the announcement of the leak of the database which contains the personal information of 1.9 million Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members in Shanghai, KELA researchers have obtained it. This database includes the members’ name, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2020
FireEye, GoDaddy, and Microsoft created a kill switch for SolarWinds backdoor

Microsoft, FireEye, and GoDaddy have partnered to create a kill switch for the Sunburst backdoor that was employed in the recent SolarWinds hack. Microsoft, FireEye, and GoDaddy have created a kill switch for the Sunburst backdoor that was used in SolarWinds supply chain attack. Last week, Russia-linked hackers breached SolarWinds, the attackers had used a trojanized […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2020
Sextortion campaign uses Goontact spyware to target Android and iOS users

Security experts spotted a new malware strain, named Goontact, that allows its operators to spy on both Android and iOS users. Security researchers from Lookout have discovered new spyware, dubbed Goontcat, that could target both Android and iOS users. Goontact implement common spyware features, including the ability to gather data from the infected devices and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2020
Microsoft partnered with security firms to sinkhole the C2 used in SolarWinds hack

Microsoft and its partners have seized the primary domain used in the SolarWinds attack to identify the victims through sinkholing. Microsoft partnered with other cybersecurity firms to seize the primary domain used in the SolarWinds attack (avsvmcloud[.]com) in an attempt to identify all victims and prevent other systems from being served malicious software. The domain […]

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