Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2018
Researchers from Avast the antivirus firm are investigating the discovery of pre-installed malware found in 141 low-cost Android devices in over 90 countries. Security experts from Antivirus firm Avast have discovered a new case of pre-installed malware on low-cost Android devices, crooks injected the malicious code in the firmware of 141 models. The operation is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2018
Moscow, May 24, 2018 – law enforcement, with support from Group-IB, has arrested a 32-year-old hacker, accused of stealing funds from Russian banks’ customers using Android mobile malware. At the height of their activity, victims reportedly lost between 1,500 to 8,000 dollars daily and levered cryptocurrency for laundering. Group-IB’s analysis reviewed the tools and techniques […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2018
In the past weeks, many Mac users have been infected with a new strain of Monero miner, the infections confirm the rise of this kind of malware. According to researchers at Malwarebytes, many Mac users in the past weeks have been infected with a new strain of Monero miner. The owners of the infected Mac systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2018
Roaming Mantis malware initially targeting Android devices, now has broadened both its geographic range and its targets. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab discovered that the operators behind the Roaming Mantis campaign continue to improve their malware broadening their targets, their geographic range and their functional scope. Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · A new flaw in Electron poses a risk to apps based on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2018
Security experts from Fortinet have spotted a new variant of the Mirai botnet dubbed ‘Wicked Mirai’, it includes new exploits and spread a new bot. The name Wicked Mirai comes from the strings in the code, the experts discovered that this new variant includes at least three new exploits compared to the original one. “The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2018
FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence discovered on the underground market a dataset allegedly containing 200 million unique sets of personally identifiable information stolen from several popular Japanese websites. Security experts from FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence have discovered on underground forums a dataset allegedly containing 200 million unique sets of personally identifiable information (PII) stolen from several popular Japanese website databases. It’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2018
A New Mexico man admitted being responsible for DDoS attacks against the websites of former employers, business competitors, and public services. John Kelsey Gammell, 55, from New Mexico has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on dozens of organizations and for firearms-related charges. The man used popular ‘services of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2018
The head of the Mexican central bank, Alejandro Diaz de Leon announced this week that hackers were involved in shadowy transfers of between $18 million and $20 million. Mexican central bank is the last victim of the SWIFT hackers, officials at the bank confirmed this week that hackers hit the payments system and stole millions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2018
Rail Europe North America (RENA) notifies customers of a security breach, crooks compromised its website with a malware used to siphon payment card data. The website allows users to buy European train tickets, according to the company the data breach lasted at least three months (between November 29, 2017 and February 16, 2018), the incident exposed also customers’ […]
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