Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2019
A Russian hacking group Fxmsp is offering for sale the access to the networks of at least three antivirus companies in the US and source code of their software. Fxmsp is a high-profile Russian- and English-speaking hacking group focused on breaching high-profile private corporate and government information. The group is offering the accesses to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2019
Police seized the DeepDotWeb website and arrested its operators for their business in facilitating the access to darkweb marketplaces and vendors. DeepDotWeb was a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces. The site was seized and the arrests were made as part of an international operation involving the FBI, Europol, and Federal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2019
Hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin from Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange The hack of another cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin (over 7,000 bitcoins) from Binance. Binance is one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, its founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao confirmed that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2019
Early April, experts at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab spotted a new interesting malware sample, likely active since 2017, that was linked to ATMitch attacks. In the first days of April, our threat monitoring operations spotted a new interesting malware sample possibly active in the wild since 2017. Its initial triage suggests it may be part of an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2019
Security experts at Proofpoint warn of the resurfacing of the Retefe banking Trojan that implements new techniques to avoid detection. The Retefe banking Trojan resurfaces in that threat landscape and implements new techniques to avoid detection. The new variant resurfaced in April, it uses the stunnel encrypted tunneling mechanism and abuses a legitimate shareware app. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2019
International ‘Malvertiser’ Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov extradited from the Netherlands to face hacking charges in New Jersey The Ukrainian national Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov (31) was extradited to the U.S. from the Netherlands and is facing charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and computer fraud. The man is suspected to have carried out malvertising […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2019
Magecart group stole payment card details from the e-commerce system used by colleges and universities in Canada and the US. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen Magecart groups at least since 2015. The gangs use to implant skimming script into compromised online stores in order to steal payment card data, but they are quite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2019
Extortion practice hit programmers’ Git repositories, experts observed a new piece of ransomware that wipes them and replaces the code with a ransom note. Hackers are using a new piece of ransomware to target GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories, wiping code and commiting, and leaving a ransom note. The hackers wipe out all commit history […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2019
Magecart made the headlines again, Magecart Group 12 is conducting a large-scale operation that targets OpenCart online stores. According to security experts at RiskIQ, the Magecart Group 12 is behind a large-scale operation against OpenCart online stores. The attackers used stealth tactics to remain under the radar and siphon payment data from compromised e-commerce sites. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2019
Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched critical Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability to deliver the Sodinokibi ransomware to organizations. Threat actors are delivering a new piece of malware, tracked as Sodinokibi, by exploiting a recently patched Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability. Oracle WebLogic Server is a Java EE application server currently developed by Oracle Corporation, it […]
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