Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2018
On February 28, 2018, the popular GitHub’s code hosting website was hit by the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 1.35 Tbps On February 28, 2018, the popular GitHub’s code hosting website was hit by the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The DDoS attack peaked at record 1.35 Tbps […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2018
Tim Hortons restaurants across Canada have been hit by a computer malware that forced some locations to shut down over the past week. When dealing with cyber threats for the retail sector, Target in most prominent case of potential damages from a cyber attack. Today I want to report you the case of a malware-based […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2018
The GandCrab ransomware decryptor has been released by the Romanian Police (IGPR) under the supervision of the General Prosecutor’s Office (DIICOT) and in collaboration with the internet security company Bitdefender and Europol. Bitdefender has teamed up with Europol, the Romanian Police, and the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) to release a free […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2018
Security experts started observing a dangerous trend in DDoS amplification technique, Memcached DDoS Attacks. Security experts from some security firms have reported that threat actors have started abusing the memcached protocol to power distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) Attacks, so-called memcached DDoS attacks. Memcached is a free and open source, high-performance, distributed memory caching system designed to speed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2018
Malware researchers at CSE Cybsec – ZLab have analyzed a new variant of Mobef ransomware, a malware that in the past mainly targeted Italian users. Malware researchers at CSE Cybsec – ZLab have analyzed a new variant of Mobef ransomware, that was involved in past attacks against Italian users. I personally obtained the sample by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2018
Security researchers at Morphisec have uncovered a massive hacking campaign that is exploiting the recently patched CVE-2018-4878 Adobe Flash Player vulnerability. Threat actors are exploiting the use-after-free flaw to deliver malware. The CVE-2018-4878 vulnerability was fixed by Adobe on February 6, after security experts discovered it was used by North Korea-linked APT37 group in targeted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2018
The Data Keeper Ransomware that infected systems in the wild was generated by a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) service that appeared in the underground recently. A few days ago a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) service appeared in the underground, now samples of the malware, dubbed Data Keeper Ransomware, generated with the platforms are have already been spotted in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2018
Code-signing certificates are precious commodities in the criminal underground, they are used by vxers to sign malware code to evade detection. Other precious commodities in the criminal underground are code-signing certificates, they allow vxers to sign the code for malware to evade detection. Operators of the major black markets in the darknets buy and sell code-signing certificates, but according to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2018
Czech President Milos Zeman wants the Russian hacker Yevgeni Nikulin to be extradited to Russia instead of the US, he is charged with hacking against social networks and frauds. Yevgeni Nikulin (29) was requested by the US for alleged cyber attacks on social networks and by the Russian authorities that charged him with frauds. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · COINHOARDER criminal gang made an estimated $50 million with a Bitcoin phishing campaign · Germanys defense minister: Cyber security is going to be the main focus of this decade. · JenkinsMiner made […]
