Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2020
The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations Introduction During our daily monitoring activities, we intercepted a singular Linux malware trying to penetrate the network of some of our customers. The Linux malware is the well-known “Shellbot”, it is a crimetool belonging […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2020
The operators behind the Shade Ransomware (Troldesh) shut down their operations and released over 750,000 decryption keys. Good news for the victims of the infamous Shade Ransomware, the operators behind the threat have shut down their operations and released over 750,000 decryption keys. The cybercrime gang also apologized for the damages they have caused their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2020
Experts managed to sinkhole several C2 servers of the VictoryGate botnet that already infected over 35,000 devices and propagates via infected USB devices. The VictoryGate botnet is active since at least May 2019, the botnet is more active in Latin America the most. More than 90% of the infected devices are located in Peru. Experts from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2020
This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from April 19 to April 25, 2020. Please give me your vote for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERShttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8AkYMfAAwJ4JZzYRm8GfsJCDON8q83C9_wu5u10sNAt_CcA/viewform Threat actors exploit the interest in the Coronavirus outbreak while infections increase worldwide, experts are observing new campaigns on a daily bases. Below […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2020
Several US universities and colleges were targeted in phishing attacks aimed at delivering malware previously used by China-linked APT groups. Faculty and students at several U.S. universities and colleges were targeted in phishing attacks, threat actors attempted to infect the victims’ systems with a remote access Trojan (RAT) previously used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2020
The legal dispute between Facebook and NSO group continues even after the Israeli surveillance firm filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this month. Facebook advocates have challenged a plea from spyware maker NSO Group to dismiss the legal dispute over the hacking accusations, arguing it has immunity from prosecution. Now both companies are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2020
Researchers at Zscaler observed an increase of 30,000% in Coronavirus-themed attacks in March when compared to the beginning of 2020. Researchers from Zscaler observed an increase of 30,000% in Coronavirus-themed attacks in March when compared to the beginning of 2020. In January experts started observing first attacks using COVID-19-related lures and themes, just two months later […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2020
The Hoaxcalls IoT botnet expanded the list of targeted devices and has added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. DDoS protection services provider Radware warns the Hoaxcalls Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has expanded the list of targeted devices, the experts also noticed that the operators implemented new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2020
The popular SeaChange video platform is the latest victim of the Sodinokibi Ransomware gang, which is threatening to leak the stolen data. SeaChange International, the multinational supplier of video delivery software solutions, was the victim of the Sodinokibi Ransomware gang. The crew has published images of the data they claim to have stolen before encrypting the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2020
A security expert uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in 2017. Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, a former Kaspersky and Google researcher, uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in […]
