Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2020
This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from April 12 to April 18, 2020. Threat actors exploit the interest in the Coronavirus outbreak while infections increase worldwide, experts are observing new campaigns on a daily bases. Below a list of attacks detected this week. April 14 – Crooks target Healthcare facilities involved […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs A new e-skimmer found on WordPress site using the WooCommerce plugin Coronavirus-themed attacks April 05 – April 11, 2020 Thousands Zoom credentials available on a Dark Web forum 500,000+ Zoom accounts available for sale on the Dark Web […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2020
Hacker claims to have breached the Aptoide app store users early this month and now leaked 20 million records out of 39 million Aptoide user records. A hacker has leaked this week details of 20 million users of the Aptoide app store, the claims to have breached the store early this months and to be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2020
Threat actors employed the previously-undetected PoetRAT Trojan in a Coronavirus-themed campaign aimed at government and energy sectors. Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a new Coronavirus-themed campaign employing a previously-undiscovered RAT tracked as PoetRAT. The attacks targeted the Azerbaijan government and utility companies, the malicious code was designed to infect supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2020
TrickBot is the malware that most of all is involved in COVID-19-themed attacks, Microsoft’s Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) data reveals. The analysis of Microsoft Office 365 ATP data revealed that TrickBot is, at the moment, the malware operation with the highest number of unique COVID-19-themed malicious emails and attachments. Microsoft experts revealed that this campaign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2020
Google says that the Gmail malware scanners have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures in just one week. Google announced that its anti-malware solutions implemented to defend its Gmail users have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures within the last seven days. The IT giant also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2020
Syrian-linked APT group SEA recently used COVID-19-themed lures as part of a long-running surveillance campaign, security researchers warn. Syrian hackers are behind a long-running campaign that has been active since January 2018 and that targets Arabic-speaking Android users. The campaign aimed at users in Syria and surrounding regions was spotted by experts from mobile security firm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2020
The shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) was victim of a malware-based attack that caused an outage recently. The shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) discloses a malware-based attack that took place on April 10. The incident affected the company’s data center and took down its website, msc.com, and its myMSC customer and vendor portal. “The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2020
Linksys has reset passwords for all its customers’ after learning on ongoing DNS hijacking attacks aimed at delivering malware. Crooks continue to launch Coronavirus-themed attacks, in the last weeks, experts observed hackers hijacking D-Link and Linksys routers to redirect users to COVID19-themed sites spreading malware. Hackers compromise D-Link and Linksys routers and change DNS settings to redirect users to bogus sites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2020
The United States agencies released a joint advisory warning of ‘significant cyber threat’ posed by North Korea-linked hackers to the global financial sector. The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a joint advisory that is warning organizations worldwide about the ‘significant cyber threat’ posed by the North Korean nation-state […]
