Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2020
Two Baidu Android apps have been removed from the Google Play Store in October after they’ve been caught collecting sensitive user details. Two apps belonging to Chinese tech giant Baidu, Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box, have been removed from the Google Play Store at the end of October after they’ve been caught collecting sensitive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2020
Researchers spotted a new variant of an adware and coin-miner botnet operated by Stantinko threat actors that now targets Linux servers. Researchers from Intezer have spotted a new variant of an adware and coin-miner botnet that is operated by Stantinko threat actors since 2012. The Stantinko botnet was first spotted by ESET in 2017, at the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2020
Following the recent takedown, the TrickBot operators have implemented various improvements to make it more resilient. In October, Microsoft’s Defender team, FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, NTT, and Broadcom’s cyber-security division Symantec joined the forces and announced a coordinated effort to take down the command and control infrastructure of the infamous TrickBot botnet. Even if Microsoft and its partners have brought down the TrickBot […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2020
The U.S. FBI is warning private industry partners of a surge in Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert (MU-000140-MW) to warn private industry partners of an increase of the Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2020
Sonatype’s deep dive research allowed to identify a new family of Discord malware called CursedGrabber. Sonatype has discovered more malware in the npm registry which, following our analysis and multiple cyber threat intelligence reports, has led to the discovery of a novel and large scale malware campaign leveraging the open-source ecosystem. The malware called “xpc.js” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2020
Officials confirm that the city of Saint John was hit by a massive cyberattack that has crippled the entire IT municipal infrastructure. The city of Saint John, Canada, was hit by a massive cyberattack that has crippled the entire IT municipal infrastructure, the incident was publicly disclosed on November 15. The cyberattack caused the shut […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2020
The QakBot banking trojan has dropped the ProLock ransomware, they are now opting for the Egregor ransomware in their operations. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has discovered that QakBot (aka Qbot) operators have abandoned ProLock for Egregor ransomware. Egregor has been actively distributed since September 2020 and has so far hit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2020
The CyberNews.com Investigation team carried out an infiltration operation against an IRC botnet and reported it to CERT Vietnam to help take it down. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/security/we-infiltrated-an-irc-botnet-heres-what-we-found/ In order to gather valuable information about the IRC botnet’s activity, we joined its Command and Control channel where we met the botmaster who was responsible for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2020
Security experts from RiskIQ discovered a new variant of the Grelos skimmer that presents overlap with Magecart group operations. Researchers from RiskIQ analyzed the increased overlap of a new variant of the skimmer dubbed Grelos and the operations of the groups under the Magecart umbrella. The analysis demonstrates the difficulty in associating new strains of skimmer to groups […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2020
Managed web hosting provider Managed.com was hit with REvil ransomware that forced it to take down their servers and web hosting systems. Managed web hosting provider Managed.com was hit by a REvil ransomware attack over the weekend that took their servers and web hosting systems offline. At the time of writing this post, Managed.com hosting […]
