Malware

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2020
New Coronavirus-themed campaign spread Lokibot worldwide

Researchers spotted a new Coronavirus-themed attack, the messages pretend to be sent from the World Health Organization to deliver Lokibot infostealer. Security experts at FortiGuard Labs discovered a new Coronavirus-themed campaign using alleged messages from the World Health Organization (WHO) to deliver the LokiBot trojan. The campaign was uncovered on March 27 when the researchers […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2020
Magecart group 7 use new e-skimmer to steal payment data

RiskIQ researchers spotted a new ongoing Magecart campaign that already compromised at least 19 different e-commerce websites. Researchers from security firm RiskIQ have uncovered a new ongoing Magecart campaign that already compromised at least 19 different e-commerce websites to steal customers’ payment card data. The experts discovered a new software skimmer, dubbed “MakeFrame,” that injects […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2020
New COVID19 wiper overwrites MBR making computers unusable

A recently discovered strain of malware exploits the current COVID19 pandemic to render computers unusable by overwriting the MBR. SonicWall’s security researchers have discovered a new piece of malware that exploits the current COVID19 outbreak to render computers unusable by overwriting the master boot record (MBR). Unfortunately, this is one of the numerous attacks conducted by […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2020
Crooks use tainted Zoom apps to target users at home due to Coronavirus outbreak

Crooks target Android users working from home due to the Coronavirus outbreak with a Trojanized version of the popular video messaging app Zoom. Security experts from Bitdefender have spotted tainted versions of the Android Zoom video-conferencing application that is targeting users working from home due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Researchers detected re-packaged Zoom mobile applications […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2020
Vollgar botnet has managed to infect around 3k MSSQL DB servers daily

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar botnet, that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. The botnet is used to launch brute-force attacks against MSSQL databases to take over servers and install Monero […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2020
New Raccoon Stealer uses Google Cloud Services to evade detection

Researchers found a piece of Raccoon Stealer that abuse of Google Cloud Services and leverages multiple delivery techniques. Racoon malware (aka Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer) is an info-stealer that recently appeared in the threat landscape that is advertised in hacking forums. The malware is cheap compared to similar threats, it is able to steal sensitive data from about […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2020
LimeRAT malware delivered using 8-year-old VelvetSweatshop trick

Researchers spotted a campaign using Excel files to spread LimeRAT malware using the 8-year-old and well-known VelvetSweatshop bug. Researchers at the Mimecast Threat Center spotted a new campaign using Excel files to spread LimeRAT malware using the 8-year-old VelvetSweatshop bug. LimeRAT is a powerful Remote Administration Tool publicly available as an open-source project on Github, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2020
Holy Water targets religious figures and charities in Asia

Holy Water – An APT group compromised a server hosting Web pages belonging mainly to religious figures and charities to carry out watering hole attacks. On December 4, 2019, Kaspersky experts discovered a watering hole attack, tracked Holy Water, aimed at an Asian religious and ethnic group. The campaign has been active since at least […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2020
FBI warns of nation-state actors using the Kwampirs malware

For the third time in a few weeks, the FBI has issued an alert about supply chain attacks carried out by nation-state actors using the Kwampirs malware. The FBI has issued an alert about supply chain attacks using the Kwampirs malware as part of a hacking campaign carried out on a global scale by state-sponsored […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2020
Crooks leverage Zoom’s popularity in Coronavirus outbreak to serve malware

Online communication platforms such as Zoom are essential instruments at the time of Coronavirus outbreak, and crooks are attempting to exploit their popularity. The Coronavirus outbreak is changing our habits and crooks are attempting to take advantage of the popularity of online communication platforms such as Zoom that are used by businesses, school classrooms and […]