Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2019
Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gilette, Wyoming is facing service disruptions after a ransomware attack hit its computer systems on Friday. On Friday, the Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gilette, Wyoming, suffered a ransomware attack that is still causing service disruptions. âCampbell County Health has been the victim of a ransomware attack. All CCH computer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2019
Symantec spotted a new threat actor, tracked as TortoiseShell, that is compromising IT providers to target their specific customers. Symantec researchers spotted a new threat group, tracked as TortoiseShell, that is compromising IT providers to target their specific customers. The group was first spotted in 2018, but experts speculate that it has been active for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! A bug in Instagram exposed user […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2019
Hello, it’s unixfreaxjp here. It has been a while since I wrote our own blog, and it is good to be back. Thank you for your patience for all of this time. The background It was after September 2016 when we decided to move our blog and since then I had a lot of fun […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2019
Experts at Wanderaâs threat research team discovered two adware apps on the Google Play Store that were downloaded 1.5M+ times. Researchers at Wandera discovered two adware selfie filter camera apps on the Google Play that were pushing ads and that can record audio. The bad news is that the two apps were downloaded 1.5M+ times. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2019
Cofense researchers spotted a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States to infect them with the Amadey malware. Security experts at Cofense uncovered a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States attempting to infect them with a new piece of malware named Amadey. The Amadey bot is a quite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2019
Agent Tesla is a fully customizable password info-stealer offered as malware-as-a-service, many cyber criminals are choosing it as their preferred recognition tool.  Introduction Nowadays the Malware-As-A-Service is one of the criminal favorite ways to breach security perimeter. Agent Tesla is one of these âcommodity malwareâ. It is a fully customizable password info-stealer and many cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2019
Trend Micro researchers reported that a Magecart group has hacked the websites of two hotel chains to inject scripts targeting Android and iOS users. Researchers discovered a series of incidents involving software credit card skimmer used by Magecart to hit the booking websites of hotel chains. In early September, the researchers discovered a JavaScript code onto two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2019
Emotet is back, its operators leverage a recently introduced spear-phishing technique to deliver their malware, they are hijacking legitimate email conversations. In 2019, security experts haven’t detected any activity associated with Emotet since early April, when researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign distributing a new Emotet Trojan variant that compromises devices and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2019
Researchers at Guardicore Labs reported that the Smominru botnet is rapidly spreading and now is already infecting over 90,000 machines each month around worldwide. In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed âSmominruâ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. According to the […]
