Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2020
AlphaBay dark web marketplace moderator was sentenced to 11 years of prison time

Bryan Connor Herrell (25) from Colorado, was sentenced to 11 years of prison time for being one of the moderators on the dark web marketplace AlphaBay. Bryan Connor Herrell (25) from Colorado, was sentenced to 11 years of prison time for being one of the moderators on the popular dark web marketplace AlphaBay. “A Colorado man was […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2020
Google removed malicious Terracotta apps from the Play Store

Researchers from White Ops discovers several Android apps in the official Play store which installed on users’ mobile devices the Terracotta ad fraud malware. Researchers from security firm White Ops discovered several Android apps in the official Play Store that installed a hidden browser to load pages containing ad and commit ad fraud. The company […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2020
Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware evolves to target Linux devices

A new variant of the infamous Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware has been updated to targets Linux devices. Security researchers from Sophos have spotted a new variant of the Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware that has been updated to compromise Linux machines via SSH brute force attacks. The new variant also exploits SMBGhost bug in Windows systems, and is also able to target servers running Redis […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2020
Group with numerous faces: chronicle of UltraRank’s deceptive JS-sniffer campaigns

Group-IB security researchers provide evidence linking three campaigns with the use of various JS-sniffer families. Singapore – Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, today released its analytical report “UltraRank: the unexpected twist of a JS-sniffer triple threat.” In its report, Group-IB Threat Intelligence experts provide evidence linking three campaigns with the use of various JavaScript-sniffer families […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2020
REvil ransomware operators breached healthcare org Valley Health Systems

REvil ransomware operators claimed to have breached another healthcare organization, the victim is Valley Health Systems. During ordinary monitoring activity of data leaks, the Cyble Research Team identified a leak disclosure post published by the REvil ransomware operators claiming to have breached a healthcare organization, the Valley Health Systems.  Healthcare organizations are a privileged target of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2020
Canadian delivery company Canpar Express suffered a ransomware attack

A ransomware attack hit TFI International’s four Canadian courier divisions last week, Canpar Express, ICS Courier, Loomis Express and TForce Integrated Solutions. A couple of days after the transportation and logistics TFI International company raised millions of dollars in a share offering, the news of a ransomware attack against its four Canadian courier divisions (Canpar Express, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2020
Cybercriminal greeners from Iran attack companies worldwide for financial gain

Group-IB has detected financially motivated attacks carried out in June by newbie threat actors from Iran. The attackers used Dharma ransomware and a mix of publicly available tools to target companies in Russia, Japan, China, and India. All the affected organizations had hosts with Internet-facing RDP and weak credentials. The hackers typically demanded a ransom between 1-5 […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2020
Grandoreiro campaign impersonates Spanish Agencia Tributaria

Operators of Grandoreiro Latin American banking trojan have launched a new campaign using emails posing as the Agencia Tributaria in order to infect new victims. Operators behind the Grandoreiro banking trojan, which is popular in Latin America, have been using emails posing as the Agencia Tributaria to trick victims into installing the malware. The campaign began […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2020
University of Utah pays a $457,000 ransom to ransomware gang

The University of Utah admitted to have paid a $457,059 ransom in order to avoid having ransomware operators leak student information online. The University of Utah admitted having paid a $457,059 ransom after the ransomware attack that took place on July 19, 2020, that infected systems on the network of the university’s College of Social […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2020
Texas man sentenced to 57 months for the hacking of a major tech firm in New York

A 31-year-old man from Dallas, Texas, was sentenced last week to 57 months in prison for crimes related to the hacking of a major tech firm in New York. Tyler C. King (31), from Dallas, Texas, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for crimes related to the hacking of an unnamed major tech company […]