Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 334

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 international press subscribe here. Threat actors exploit a flaw in Coinbase 2FA to steal user funds Flubot Android banking Trojan spreads […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2021
The Biden administration will work with 30 countries to curb global cybercrime

The Biden administration announced it will work with 30 countries, including NATO allies and G7 partners, to curb global cybercrime. U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the US will work with 30 countries to curb cybercrime and dismantle ransomware gangs that are targeting organizations worldwide. “This month, the United States will bring together 30 countries […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2021
Flubot Android banking Trojan spreads via fake security updates

The Flubot Android malware is now leveraging fake security updates warning to trick users into installing the malicious code. Threat actors behind the Flubot Android malware are now leveraging fake security updates to trick victims into installing the malicious code. The attackers use fake security warnings of Flubot infections and urging them to install the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2021
Baby died at Alabama Springhill Medical Center due to cyber attack

A baby allegedly received inadequate childbirth health care, and later died, at an Alabama Springhill Medical Center due to a ransomware attack. An Alabama woman named Teiranni Kidd has filed suit after the death of her baby, she claims that the Springhill Medical Center was not able to respond to a cyberattack that crippled its […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2021
Hydra Android trojan campaign targets customers of European banks

Experts warn of a new Hydra banking trojan campaign targeting European e-banking platform users, including the customers of Commerzbank.   Experts warn of a malware campaign targeting European e-banking platform users with the Hydra banking trojan. According to malware researchers from the MalwareHunterTeam and Cyble, the new campaign mainly impacted the customers of Commerzbank, Germany’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2021
Neiman Marcus discloses data breach, payment card data exposed

Luxury retail company Neiman Marcus Group has announced this week that it has suffered a data breach that impacted customer information. The attack against Neiman Marcus Group took place in May 2020, as a result of the attack, threat actors had access to customers’ information, including payment card data. Exposed personal information includes names and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2021
Threat actors use recently discovered CVE-2021-26084 Atlassian Confluence

Threat actors are actively exploiting the recently disclosed CVE-2021-26084 RCE vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments. Trend Micro researchers have spotted crypto-mining campaigns that are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical remote code execution vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux. At the end of August, Atlassian released security patches to address the critical CVE-2021-26084 flaw that affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2021
GriftHorse malware infected more than 10 million Android phones from 70 countries

Security researchers uncovered a massive malware operation, dubbed GriftHorse, that has already infected more than 10 million Android devices worldwide. Security researchers from Zimperium have uncovered a piece of malware, dubbed GriftHorse, that has infected more than 10 million Android smartphones across more than 70 countries. According to the experts, the malware campaign has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2021
Group-IB CEO was put under arrest on treason charges

Russian media reported that the police made searches in the Moscow office of security firm Group-IB apparently linked to an investigation into a criminal case. The police made searches in the Moscow office of the threat intelligence firm Group-IB, according to the media local authorities are investigating a criminal case. According to RTVI, the police […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2021
ERMAC, a new banking Trojan that borrows the code from Cerberus malware

ERMAC is a new Android banking Trojan that can steal financial data from 378 banking and wallet apps. Researchers from Threatfabric found in July a new Android banking trojan dubbed ERMAC that is almost fully based on the popular banking trojan Cerberus. The source code of Cerberus was released in September 2020 on underground hacking […]