Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2023
UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to some of its employees’ personal information. UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced that threat actors had access to the personal information of some of its employees after an unnamed third-party supplier was hit with a ransomware attack. The GMP reported that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2023
The iPhone of a prominent Russian journalist, who is at odds with Moscow, was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The iPhone of the Russian journalist Galina Timchenko was compromised with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. A joint investigation conducted by Access Now and the Citizen Lab revealed that the journalist, who is at odds with the Russian government, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2023
3AM is a new strain of ransomware that was spotted in a single incident in which the threat actors failed to deploy the LockBit ransomware in the target infrastructure. Symantecâs Threat Hunter Team discovered a new ransomware family, which calls itself 3AM, that to date has only been deployed in a single incident in which the threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2023
A threat actor tracked as Redfly had infected the systems at a national grid located in an unnamed Asian country for six months starting in January. Symantecâs Threat Hunter Team discovered that a threat actor called Redfly used the ShadowPad backdoor to compromise a national grid in an Asian country for as long as six months earlier […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2023
The international non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children International was recently hit with a cyberattack. The charity organization Save the Children International revealed that it was hit by a cyber attack. The company disclosed the security incident after the ransomware gang BianLian listed the organization on its Tor leak site. The BianLian extortion group claims […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2023
Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten used a previously undocumented backdoor named Sponsor in attacks against entities in Brazil, Israel, and the U.A.E. ESET researchers observed a series of attacks, conducted by the Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten (aka Ballistic Bobcat APT, APT35, Phosphorus, Newscaster, TA453, and Ajax Security Team), which are targeting various entities in Brazil, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates. The Charming […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2023
The U.K. and U.S. governments sanctioned 11 more individuals who were alleged members of the Russia-based TrickBot cybercrime gang. The United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom, sanctioned eleven more individuals who are members of the Russia-based Trickbot cybercrime group. The sanctions were provided by the U.S. Department of the Treasuryâs Office of Foreign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2023
Zscaler ThreatLabz detailed a new malware loader, named HijackLoader, which has grown in popularity over the past few months HijackLoader is a loader that is gaining popularity among the cybercriminal community. The malware is not sophisticated, however, unlike other loaders, it has a modular structure that allows supporting code injection and execution. The HijackLoader is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2023
Evil Telegram: a Trojanized version of the Telegram app was spotted on the Google Play Store, Kaspersky researchers reported. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered several Telegram mods on the Google Play Store that contained spyware, the campaign was tracked as Evil Telegram. One of the apps was downloaded more than ten million times before it was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2023
Rhysida Ransomware group added three more US hospitals to the list of victims on its Tor leak site after the PROSPECT MEDICAL attack. Recently the Rhysida ransomware group made the headlines because it announced the hack of Prospect Medical Holdings and the theft of sensitive information from the organization. In early August, a cyberattack disrupted […]
