Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2022
A disgruntled developer is the alleged source of the leak of the Lockbit 3.0 builder

A disgruntled developer seems to be responsible for the leak of the builder for the latest encryptor of the LockBit ransomware gang. The leak of the builder for the latest encryptor of the LockBit ransomware gang made the headlines, it seems that the person who published it is a disgruntled developer. The latest version of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2022
Imperva blocked a record DDoS attack with 25.3 billion requests

Cybersecurity company Imperva announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack with a total of over 25.3 billion requests. Cybersecurity firm Imperva mitigated a DDoS attack with over 25.3 billion requests on June 27, 2022. According to the experts, the attack marks a new record for Imperva’s application DDoS mitigation solution. The attack targeted an unnamed […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2022
Uber believes that the LAPSUS$ gang is behind the recent attack

Uber disclosed additional details about the security breach, the company blames a threat actor allegedly affiliated with the LAPSUS$ hacking group. Uber revealed additional details about the recent security breach, the company believes that the threat actor behind the intrusion is affiliated with the LAPSUS$ hacking group. Over the last months, the Lapsus$ gang compromised […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2022
Analyzing IP Addresses to Prevent Fraud for Enterprises

How can businesses protect themselves from fraudulent activities by examining IP addresses? The police would track burglars if they left calling cards at the attacked properties. Internet fraudsters usually leave a trail of breadcrumbs whenever they visit websites through specific IP addresses. They reveal their physical location and the device they used to connect to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2022
American Airlines disclosed a data breach

American Airlines disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to an undisclosed number of employee email accounts. American Airlines recently suffered a data breach, threat actors compromised a limited number of employee email accounts. The intruders had access to sensitive personal information contained in the accounts, but the company’s data breach notification states that it is not aware […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2022
IT giants warn of ongoing Chromeloader malware campaigns

VMware and Microsoft are warning of a widespread Chromeloader malware campaign that distributes several malware families. ChromeLoader is a malicious Chrome browser extension, it is classified as a pervasive browser hijacker that modifies browser settings to redirect user traffic. The malware is able to redirect the user’s traffic and hijacking user search queries to popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2022
Revolut security breach: data of +50,000 users exposed

Revolut has suffered a cyberattack, threat actors have had access to personal information of tens of thousands of customers. The financial technology company Revolut suffered a ‘highly targeted’ cyberattack over the weekend, threat actors had access to the personal information of 0.16% of its customers (approximately 50,000 users). The company states that it has already contacted the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2022
TeamTNT is back and targets servers to run Bitcoin encryption solvers

AquaSec researchers observed the cybercrime gang TeamTNT hijacking servers to run Bitcoin solver since early September. In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 384

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs 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. LastPass revealed that intruders had internal access for four days during the August hack CISA adds […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2022
North Korea-linked APT spreads tainted versions of PuTTY via WhatsApp

North Korea-linked threat actor UNC4034 is spreading tainted versions of the PuTTY SSH and Telnet client. In July 2022, Mandiant identified a novel spear phish methodology that was employed by North Korea-linked threat actor UNC4034. The attackers are spreading tainted versions of the PuTTY SSH and Telnet client. The attack chain starts with a fake […]