Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2019
Zurich American Insurance Company is refusing to refund its client because consider the attack as “an act of war” that is not covered by its policy. The US food giant Mondelez is suing Zurich for $100 Million after the insurance company rejected its claim to restore normal operations following the massive NotPetya ransomware attack. On […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2019
The City Hall of Del Rio, a city in and the county seat of Val Verde County, Texas, was hit by a ransomware attack, operations were suspended. Last week, the City Hall of Del Rio, a city in and the county seat of Val Verde County, Texas, was hit by a ransomware attack. On Thursday, tens of computers at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2019
FireEye and CrowdStrike discovered that threat actors behind the Ryuk ransomware are working with another cybercrime gang to gain access to target networks. In August 2018, security experts from Check Point uncovered a ransomware-based campaign aimed at organizations around the world conducted by North Korea-linked threat actor. This is the first time that a security firm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2019
Proofpoint analyzed two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505Â crime gang. The ServHelper is a backdoor, experts analyzed two variants of it, while […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2019
Victims of the PyLocky Ransomware can use a tool released by security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group to decrypt their files for free. I have good and bad news for the victims of the PyLocky Ransomware. The good news is that security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group released a decryption tool […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2019
Ave Maria Malware – Phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector The Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab researchers analyzed phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector. The malicious emails try to impersonate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2019
ReiKey is a free tool that allows to scan and detect keylogger that install persistent keyboard “event taps” to intercept your keystrokes. Good news for macOS users, a new open source tool dubbed ReiKey allows them to detect Mac Keyloggers. The ReiKey app monitor systems for applications that analyzed keyboard ‘event taps‘ to monitor and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2019
Victims of the Aurora Ransomware could use a decryptor tool developed by the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie to decrypt their data for free. Good news for the victims of the Aurora Ransomware, there are many variants of this Windows malware but most of the victims have been infected by the version that appends the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2019
A new variant of the NRSMiner is infecting users in the southern region of Asia, most of the victims are in Vietnam (54%), Iran (16%) and Malaysia (12%). The new version leverages the EternalBlue exploit to spread, experts observed that the threat also updates existing NRSMiner installs. ETERNALBLUEÂ is an NSA exploit that made the headlines […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
The Cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net was hit by a ransomware-based attack on Christmas Eve that took down its systems. Data Resolution LLC provides software hosting, business continuity systems, cloud computing, and data center services to more serves than 30,000 businesses worldwide, The news was first reported by the popular investigator Brian Krebs on KrebsOnSecurity, the company believe […]
