Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2021
The Emotet botnet is still active, ten months after an international operation coordinated by Europol shut down its infrastructure. Early this year, law enforcement and judicial authorities worldwide conducted a joint operation, named Operation Ladybird, which disrupted the EMOTET botnet. At the time the investigators have taken control of its infrastructure in an international coordinated action. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2021
Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at almost 2 terabytes per second (Tbps). Cloudflare, Inc. is an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services. The company announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked just below 2 terabytes per second (Tbps), which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2021
Ten years together! I’m very excited. I launched Security Affairs for passion in 2011 and millions of readers walked with me. Thanks Ten years ago I launched Security Affairs, the blog over the past decade obtained important successes in the cyber security community, but the greatest one is your immense affection. Over the past decade, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2021
Experts warn of a surge in infections of the QBot (aka Quakbot) banking trojan which seems to be associated with the rise of Squirrelwaffle. Researchers warn of a new wave of QBot (aka Qakbot) banking trojan infections that appears to be associated with the rise of Squirrelwaffle. “Toward the end of September 2021, we noted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2021
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shared guidance for small businesses on how to increase resilience to ransomware attacks. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published guidance for small businesses on how to protect their networks from ransomware attacks. The FTC suggests two steps small businesses can take to bolster their resilience against ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2021
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Hundreds of thousands of fake warnings of cyberattacks sent from a hacked FBI email […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2021
Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. GravityRAT was first spotted by Cisco Talos researchers in 2017 who speculate it remained under the radar for at least a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2021
Qihoo 360’s Netlab detailed a new evolving DDoS botnet called Abcbot with wormable capabilities that targets Linux systems. Researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team have spotted a new botnet, tracked as Abcbot, that targets Linux systems to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The security firm analyzed a total of six versions of the botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2021
Costco Wholesale Corporation discloses a data breach, threat actors had access to customers’ payment card information. Retail giant Costco Wholesale Corporation notified its customers of a data breach that might have exposed their payment card information. Data was allegedly exposed while customers were shopping at one of its stores. Costco discovered the security breach after […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2021
Threat actors are increasingly using the HTML smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, Microsoft researchers warn. Microsoft experts warn that threat actors are increasingly using the HTML smuggling technique in phishing campaigns to stealthily deliver threats. HTML smuggling is a highly evasive technique for malware delivery that leverages legitimate HTML5 and JavaScript features. The malicious payloads are delivered via encoded […]
