Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2020
Google TAG report Q1 details about nation-state hacking and disinformation

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has published today its first TAG quarterly report that analyzes rising trends in nation-state and financially motivated attacks. Google also discloses seven coordinated political influence campaigns that took place on its platforms during Q1 2020. The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is a group inside the Google’s security team that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2020
Ke3chang hacking group adds new Ketrum malware to its arsenal

The Ke3chang hacking group added a new malware dubbed Ketrum to its arsenal, it borrows portions of code and features from older backdoors. The Ke3chang hacking group (aka APT15, Vixen Panda, Playful Dragon, and Royal APT) has developed new malware dubbed Ketrum by borrowing parts of the source code and features from their older Ketrican and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2020
The evolution of ransomware in 2019: attackers think bigger, go deeper and grow more advanced

The number of ransomware attacks increased by 40 percent last year, according to Group-IB attackers think bigger and grow more advanced. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, found out that the year of 2019 was marked by ransomware evolution and was dominated by increasingly aggressive ransomware campaigns, with its operators resorting to more cunning […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2020
Researchers dismantled ShuangQiang gang’s botnet that infected thousands of PCs

A joint operations conducted by experts from Chinese firms Qihoo 360 Netlab and Baidu dismantle the ShuangQiang ‘s botnet infecting over hundreds of thousands of systems. A joint operation conducted by Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab and tech giant Baidu disrupted a botnet operated by a group tracked as ShuangQiang (aka Double Gun) that infected […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2020
StrandHogg 2.0 Android flaw affects over 1 Billion devices

Researchers disclosed a new critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-0096, aka StrandHogg 2.0) affecting the Android operating system that could allow attackers to carry out a sophisticated version of Strandhogg attack. A group of Norwegian researchers disclosed a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-0096, affecting Android OS that could allow attackers to carry out a sophisticated version of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2020
Crooks hacked e-shops and threaten to sell SQL databases if ransom not paid

Threat actors are offering for sale more than two dozen SQL databases belonging to e-commerce websites for different countries. Hackers are offering for sale more than two dozen SQL databases stolen from online shops from multiple countries. Threat actors have compromised insecure servers exposed online and after copying the content of their websites they left […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2020
Ragnar Ransomware encrypts files from virtual machines to evade detection

Ransomware encrypts from virtual machines to evade antivirus Ragnar Locker deploys Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files, the trick allows to evaded detection from security software. Crooks always devise new techniques to evade detection, the Ragnar Locker is deploying Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files while bypassing security measures. The Ragnar […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2020
3 hacking forums have been hacked and database have been leaked online

Three hacking forums Nulled[.]ch, Sinfulsite[.]com, and suxx[.]to have been hacked and their databases have been leaked online Researchers from intelligence firm Cyble made the headlines again, this time they have discovered online the databases of three hacking forums. The three forums are Sinful Site, SUXX.TO and Nulled, they were all hacked. These cybercrime forums are places of aggregation for […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2020
25 million Mathway user records available for sale on the dark web

A threat actor is offering for sale on a dark web marketplace a database containing 25 million user records belonging to the Mathway. A data breach broker, known as Shiny Hunters, is offering for sale on a dark web marketplace a database that contains 25 million user records for Mathway. Early May, Shiny Hunters attempted to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2020
Unc0ver is the first jailbreak that works on all recent iOS versions since 2014

A team of hackers and cyber-security researchers have released a new jailbreak package dubbed Unc0ver for iOS devices. A team of cyber-security researchers and hackers have released a new jailbreak package dubbed Unc0ver (from the name of the team that devised it) that works on all recent iOS versions.devices, even those running the current iOS […]