Malware

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2021
Wiregrass Electric Cooperative hit by a ransomware attack

Wiregrass Electric Cooperative, a rural Alabama electric cooperative was hit by a ransomware attack. Wiregrass Electric Cooperative, a rural Alabama electric cooperative that serves about 25,000 members, was hit by a ransomware attack. The cyberattack temporarily blocked the customers’ access to their account information, the cooperative is working to restore the impacted system. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2021
WildPressure APT expands operations targeting the macOS platform

WildPressure APT is targeting industrial organizations in the Middle East since 2019 and was spotted using now a new malware that targets both Windows and macOS. Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted a new malware used by the WildPressure APT group to targets both Windows and macOS systems. The WildPressure was spotted for the first time […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2021
Researchers uncovered the network infrastructure of REVil – The notorious ransomware group that hit Kaseya

Resecurity® HUNTER, cyber threat intelligence and R&D unit, identified a strong connection to a cloud hosting and IoT company servicing the domain belonging to cybercriminals. According to the recent research published by ReSecurity on Twitter, starting January 2021 REVil leveraged a new domain ‘decoder[.]re’ in addition to a ransomware page available in the TOR network. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2021
Revil ransomware gang hit Spanish telecom giant MasMovil

Revil ransomware gang hit Spanish telecom giant MasMovil and claims to have stolen sensitive data from the group. MasMovil is one of the largest Spanish telecom operators, last week the group was hit by the REvil ransomware gang that claims to have stolen sensitive data from the company. “We have downloaded databases and other important […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2021
REvil ransomware gang demanded $70M for universal decryptor for Kaseya victims

REvil ransomware is demanding $70 million for decrypting all systems locked during the Kaseya supply-chain ransomware attack. REvil ransomware is asking $70 million worth of Bitcoin for decrypting all systems impacted in the Kaseya supply-chain ransomware attack. On Friday the REvil ransomware gang hit the Kaseya cloud-based MSP platform impacting MSPs and their customers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2021
US water company WSSC Water hit by a ransomware attack

US water company WSSC Water is investigating a ransomware attack that affected non-essential business systems in May. WSSC Water is investigating a ransomware attack that took place on May 24 and that targeted a portion of their network that operates non-essential business systems. According to reports from WJZ13 Baltimore, the company removed the malware just hours later and locked out […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2021
REvil gang exploited a zero-day in the Kaseya supply chain attack

Kaseya was addressing the zero-day vulnerability that REvil ransomware gang exploited to breach on-premise Kaseya VSA servers. A new supply chain attack made the headlines, on Friday the REvil ransomware gang hit the Kaseya cloud-based MSP platform impacting MSPs and their customers. The REvil ransomware operators initially compromised the Kaseya VSA’s infrastructure, then pushed out […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2021
Hackers spread backdoor after compromising the Mongolian CA MonPass

Threat actors compromised the servers of Mongolian certificate authority (CA) MonPass and used its website to spread malware. Hackers compromised the servers of the Mongolian certificate authority (CA) MonPass and used its website to spread malware, reported Avast researchers. According to the experts, the security breach took place at least six months ago, MonPass was […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2021
Kaseya VSA supply-chain ransomware attack hit hundreds of companies

A supply attack by REvil ransomware operators against Kaseya VSA impacted multiple managed service providers (MSPs) and their clients. A new supply chain attack made the headlines, this afternoon, the REvil ransomware gang hit the cloud-based MSP platform impacting MSPs and their customers. Kaseya has 40,000 customers, not all use the VSA tool which is […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2021
Diavol ransomware appears in the threat landscape. Is it the work of the Wizard Spider gang?

Wizard Spider, the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet, is believed to be the author of a new ransomware family dubbed Diavol, Fortinet researchers report. Researchers from Fortinet reported that a new ransomware family, tracked as Diavol, might have been developed by Wizard Spider, the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet. The Trickbot botnet was used […]