Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2023
Experts found 43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5 million installs that displayed advertisements while a phone’s screen was off. Recently, researchers from McAfee’s Mobile Research Team discovered 43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5 million installs that loaded advertisements while a phone’s screen was off. The experts pointed out that this behavior […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2023
A new campaign targets Redis servers, this time the malware employed in the attacks is a new variant of the SkidMap malware. Skidmap is a piece of crypto-miner detected by Trend Micro in September 2019 while it was targeting Linux machines. The malicious code used kernel-mode rootkits to evade detection, it differs from similar miners because […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2023
The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach. CDHE did not disclose the number of impacted individuals. CDHE discovered the ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2023
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2023
A cyberattack has disrupted the computer systems of multiple hospitals in several states, with a severe impact on their operations. Some emergency rooms in multiple hospitals in several states were forced to close and ambulances were diverted due to a cyberattack against their networks. The cyberattack hit hospitals operated by Prospect Medical Holdings, which are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2023
A married couple from New York pleaded guilty this week to laundering billions of dollars stolen from Bitfinex in 2016. The couple pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in connection with the hack of the cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex that took place in 2016. The hackers stole 120,000 Bitcoin and the theft had serious repercussions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2023
Researchers discovered a new set of malicious packages on the npm package manager that can exfiltrate sensitive developer data. On July 31, 2023, Phylum researchers observed the publication of ten different “test” packages on the npm package manager that were developed to exfiltrate sensitive developer source code and other confidential information. All of these packages […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2023
Experts spotted a spear-phishing Facebook campaign exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Salesforce email services. Researchers from Guardio Labs uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Salesforce email services and SMTP servers. The phishing campaigns are able to evade conventional detection methods by chaining the Salesforce vulnerability and legacy quirks in Facebook’s web […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2023
Researchers spotted a Python variant of the NodeStealer that was designed to take over Facebook business accounts and cryptocurrency wallets. Palo Alto Network Unit 42 discovered a previously unreported phishing campaign that distributed a Python variant of the NodeStealer. The malicious code was designed to take over Facebook business accounts and steal funds from cryptocurrency wallets. Since December […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2023
Threat actors are targeting Italian organizations with a phishing campaign aimed at delivering a new malware called WikiLoader. WikiLoader is a new piece of malware that is employed in a phishing campaign that is targeting Italian organizations. Threat actors behind the campaign are using WikiLoader to deliver a banking trojan, stealer, and malware such as Ursnif to the […]
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