Malware

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2020
Microsoft is open-sourcing COVID-19 threat intelligence

Microsoft has recently announced that it has made some of its COVID-19 threat intelligence open-source.  While the number of Coronavirus-themed attacks continues to increase increased Microsoft announced it is open-sourcing its COVID-19 threat intelligence to help organizations to repeal these threats. “Microsoft processes trillions of signals each day across identities, endpoint, cloud, applications, and email, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2020
QNodeService Trojan spreads via fake COVID-19 tax relief

Experts spotted a new malware dubbed QNodeService that was involved in Coronavirus-themed phishing campaign, crooks promise victims COVID-19 tax relief. Researchers uncovered a new malware dubbed QNodeService that was employed in a Coronavirus-themed phishing campaign. The operators behind the campaign use COVID-19 lure promising victims tax relief. The phishing messages use Trojan sample associated with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2020
Russian APT Turla’s COMpfun malware uses HTTP status codes to receive commands

Russia-linked cyberespionage group Turla targets diplomatic entities in Europe with a new piece of malware tracked as COMpfun. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new cyberespionage campaign carried out by Russia-linked APT Turla that employs a new version of the COMpfun malware. The new malware allows attackers to control infected hosts using a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2020
New Ramsay malware allows exfiltrating files from air-gapped computers

Experts discovered a new strain of malware dubbed Ramsay that can infect air-gapped computers and steal sensitive data, including Word, PDF, and ZIP files. Researchers from security firm ESET discovered a new advanced malware framework named Ramsay that appears to have been designed to infect air-gapped computers and exfiltrate sensitive data. The malicious code collects […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2020
Crooks continues to use COVID-19 lures, Microsoft warns

Microsoft discovered a new phishing campaign using COVID-19 lures to target businesses with the infamous LokiBot information-stealer. Microsoft has discovered a new COVID-19 themed phishing campaign targeting businesses with the LokiBot Trojan. Lokibot was already employed in Coronavirus-themed campaigns, early of April, security experts at FortiGuard Labs discovered phishing attacks using alleged messages from the World Health Organization […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2020
Healthcare giant Magellan Health discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Magellan Health, a for-profit managed health care and insurance firm, was the victim of a ransomware attack. Magellan Health Inc. is an American for-profit managed health care company, its customers include health plans and other managed care organizations, employers, labor unions, various military and governmental agencies and third-party administrators. The company ranks 417 on the Fortune […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2020
Expert found 1,236 websites infected with Magecart e-skimmer

A security researcher is warning of a new wave of MageCart attackers, he has found over 1,000 domains infected with e-skimmers. MageCart gangs continue to be very active, security researcher Max Kersten discovered 1,236 domains hosting e-skimmer software. Hacker groups under the Magecart umbrella continue to target e-stores to steal payment card data with software skimmers. Security firms have […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2020
USCYBERCOM shares five new North Korea-linked malware samples

The United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has uploaded five new North Korean malware samples to VirusTotal. The United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has shared five new malware samples attributed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT, it has uploaded the malicious code to VirusTotal. “On May 12, 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2020
Trojan Lampion is back after 3 months

Trojan Lampion is back after 3 months. The malware was observed last days with a new obfuscation layer, new C2, and distributed inside an MSI file. Trojan Lampion is a malware observed at the end of the year 2019 impacting Portuguese users using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax and EDP. The latest campaigns in Portugal were observed […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2020
Zeus Sphinx continues to be used in Coronavirus-themed attacks

The Zeus Sphinx banking Trojan continues to evolve while receiving new updates it is employed in ongoing coronavirus-themed scams.  IBM security researcher continues to monitor the evolution of the infamous Zeus Sphinx banking Trojan (aka Zloader or Terdot) that receives frequent updates and that was involved in active coronavirus scams.  The Zeus Sphinx banking Trojan is based […]