Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2020
A US Government agency was hit with a phishing attack attempting to deliver a new malware dropper dubbed CARROTBALL. Security experts at Palo Alto Networks have uncovered a new malware dropper called CARROTBALL that was used in targeted attacks against a U.S. government agency and non-US foreign nationals. Experts attribute the attack to the Konni […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2020
Hackers used a remote access Trojan (RAT) associated with Iran-linked APT groups in recent attacks on a key organization in the European energy sector. Security experts from Recorded Future reported that a backdoor previously used in attacks carried out by an Iran-linked threat actor was used to target a key organization in the European energy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2020
In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. This is not the first time Fbot analysis has been published, and also Fbot binaries have been actively infecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2020
Researchers from Cisco Talos discovered a new Trojan named JhoneRAT that was used in targeted attacks against entities in the Middle East. A new Trojan named JhoneRAT appeared in the threat landscape, it is selectively attacking targets in the Middle East by checking keyboard layouts. The malware targets a very specific set of Arabic-speaking countries, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2020
Attacks on Citrix servers are intensifying, one of the threat actors behind them is patching them and installing its own backdoor to lock out other attackers. Security experts are monitoring a spike in the number of attacks against Citrix servers after that researchers announced the availability online of proof-of-concept exploits for the CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix NetScaler […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2020
I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020 Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow. According to the Cybersecurity Ventures’ cybercrime statistics 2017 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2020
The cybercrime group behind Satan ransomware and other malware seems to be involved in the development of a new threat named 5ss5c. The threat actors behind the Satan, DBGer and Lucky ransomware and likely Iron ransomware, is back with a new piece of malware named ‘5ss5c’. The Bart Blaze believes that the threat actors have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2020
The Maze ransomware gang has released 14GB of files that they claim were stolen from one of its victims, the Southwire cable manufacturer. The victims of the Maze Ransomware are facing another risk, after having their data encrypted now crooks are threatening to publish their data online. The Maze ransomware also implements data harvesting capabilities, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2020
Google revealed it successfully removed more than 1,700 apps from the Play Store over the past three years that had been infected with the Joker malware. Google provided technical details of its activity against the Joker malware (aka Bread) operation during the last few years. The Joker malware is a malicious code camouflaged as a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2020
Officials at the Albany County Airport Authority revealed that New York airport servers were infected with ransomware on Christmas. Officials at the Albany County Airport Authority announced this week that a ransomware attack hit the New York airport and its computer management provider LogicalNet over Christmas. The news of the attack was disclosed after LogicalNet reported its own management […]
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