Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2019
An Irish national has been sentenced to 78 months in jail for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk Road dark web marketplace. Gary Davis (31), of Wicklow, Ireland, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2019
Researchers at Imperva revealed that an undisclosed streaming service was hit by a massive DDoS attack that stopped it for 13 days. An undisclosed streaming service was hit by a 13âday DDoS massive attack powered by a Mirai botnet composed of 402,000 IoT devices. Imperva confirmed that its systems were able to repel the attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2019
Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. Researchers at Intezer have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet, that also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708). […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2019
A new wave of cyber attacks carried out by a China-linked APT group hit German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel and others. On Wednesday, German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel along with a host of others confirmed they had been targeted by a wave of cyber attacks. German media reported that the cyber attacks were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2019
Researchers at Lookout discovered a new mobile spyware dubbed Monokle that was developed by a Russian defense contractor. Experts at Lookout discovered a new Android mobile spyware in the wild, dubbed Monokle, that was developed by a Russian defense contractor named Special Technology Centre Ltd. (STC). “Lookout has discovered a highly targeted mobile malware threat that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
The Indiana County is the last victim in a wave of ransomware attacks that hit US cities, officials are investigating the extent of the attack. The computer systems of the Indiana County were hit by a ransomware attack, officials are currently investigating the extent of the attack. Officials of an Indiana county say they are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
Security experts at Emsisoft released the third decryptor in a few days, this time announced a free one for the LooCipher ransomware. A few days ago, the experts at Emsisoft released two free decryptors for the ZeroFucks ransomware and Ims00rry ransomware, now the malware team announced the released of a decryptor for the LooCipher ransomware. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
Experts at Defiant have uncovered a campaign that exploited recently disclosed plugin vulnerabilities to inject malware into websites. Experts at Defiant, the company that developed the Wordfence security plugin for WordPress, uncovered a malvertising campaign that leverages recently disclosed plugin flaws to inject malicious code into websites. Threat actors behind the malvertising campaign are leveraging […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
ESET researchers reported that China-linked cyberespionage group APT15 has been using a previously undocumented backdoor for more than two years. Security researchers at ESET reported that China-linked threat actor APT15 (aka Ke3chang, Mirage, Vixen Panda, Royal APT and Playful Dragon) has been using a previously undocumented backdoor for more than two years. APT15Â has been active […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2019
A flaw in the open-source ProFTPD file transfer protocol (FTP) server can be exploited to copy files to vulnerable servers and potentially execute arbitrary code. The security researcher Tobias MĂ€del discovered a vulnerability in the open-source ProFTPD file transfer protocol (FTP) server that can be exploited to copy files to vulnerable servers and potentially execute arbitrary […]
