Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2023
CrowdStrike researchers discovered the first-ever cryptocurrency mining campaign aimed at Dero mining since February 2023. CrowdStrike has discovered the first-ever Dero cryptojacking campaign aimed at Kubernetes infrastructure. Dero is a general-purpose, private, and decentralized application platform that allows developers to deploy powerful and unstoppable applications. It claims to offer improved privacy, anonymity and higher monetary rewards compared […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2023
Data security firm Rubrik discloses a data breach, attackers exploited recent GoAnywhere zero-day to steal its data. Cybersecurity firm Rubrik disclosed a data breach, a ransomware group stolen compeny data by exploiting the recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in the Fortra GoAnywhere secure file transfer platform. The company was the victim of a large-scale campaign targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2023
The LockBit ransomware group claims to have stolen confidential data belonging to SpaceX from the systems of Maximum Industries. The LockBit ransomware gang claims to have stolen confidential data of SpaceX after they hacked the systems of production company Maximum Industries. Maximum Industries is a full-service, piece-part production, and contract manufacturing facility. The ransomware gang […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2023
Microsoft warns of large-scale phishing attacks orchestrated with an open-source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit available in the cybercrime ecosystem Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kits are becoming an essential technology in the cybercrime ecosystem that is used by multiple threat actors to launch phishing attacks. AiTM phishing allows threat actors to circumvent multifactor authentication (MFA) through reverse-proxy functionality. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2023
Cyber security researcher Luca Mella analyzed the Makop ransomware employed in a recent intrusion. Executive summary Introduction The Makop ransomware operators started their infamous criminal business in 2020 leveraging a new variant of the notorious Phobos ransomware. During the last years, the gang maintained a solid presence in the criminal underground even if they did […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2023
A recently discovered Golang-based botnet, dubbed GoBruteforcer, is targeting web servers running FTP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, and Postgres services Researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 recently discovered a Golang-based botnet, tracked as GoBruteforcer, which is targeting web servers running FTP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, and Postgres services. In order to compromise a target system, the samples require […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 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. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. PlugX malware delivered by exploiting flaws in Chinese programs Prometei botnet evolves and infected +10,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2023
Acronis downplays the severity of the recent security breach explaining that only a single customer’s account was compromised. The CISO of Acronis downplayed a recent intrusion, revealing that only one customer was impacted. This week a threat actor, who goes online with the moniker “kernelware”, claimed the theft of data from technology firm Acronis and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2023
A new version of the Prometei botnet has infected more than 10,000 systems worldwide since November 2022, experts warn. Cisco Talos researchers reported that the Prometei botnet has infected more than 10,000 systems worldwide since November 2022. The crypto-mining botnet has a modular structure and employs multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. The Prometei botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2023
An international law enforcement operation seized the infrastructure associated with the NetWire RAT and resulted in the arrest of its administrator. A coordinated international law enforcement operation resulted in the seizure of the infrastructure associated with the NetWire RAT, the police also arrested its administrator. Law enforcement seized the website www.worldwiredlabs[.]com and its alleged administrator, […]
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