Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2019
The City Hall of Del Rio, a city in and the county seat of Val Verde County, Texas, was hit by a ransomware attack, operations were suspended. Last week, the City Hall of Del Rio, a city in and the county seat of Val Verde County, Texas, was hit by a ransomware attack. On Thursday, tens of computers at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2019
FireEye and CrowdStrike discovered that threat actors behind the Ryuk ransomware are working with another cybercrime gang to gain access to target networks. In August 2018, security experts from Check Point uncovered a ransomware-based campaign aimed at organizations around the world conducted by North Korea-linked threat actor. This is the first time that a security firm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2019
Proofpoint analyzed two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. The ServHelper is a backdoor, experts analyzed two variants of it, while […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2019
The British hacker Daniel Kaye has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the cyberattack on Liberian telecom firms. The British hacker Daniel Kaye (29) has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the 2016 attack that took down telecommunications services in Liberia. Kaye pleaded guilty in December to two charges under the Computer Misuse […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2019
A new variant of the NRSMiner is infecting users in the southern region of Asia, most of the victims are in Vietnam (54%), Iran (16%) and Malaysia (12%). The new version leverages the EternalBlue exploit to spread, experts observed that the threat also updates existing NRSMiner installs. ETERNALBLUE is an NSA exploit that made the headlines […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
ESET analyzed the distribution technique used by cyber criminals in new Emotet campaign that has recently affected various countries in Latin America. In November, experts from ESET uncovered a massive spam campaign that was distributing the Emotet malware. The campaign targeted several users in some Latin American countries and ESET shared details on the propagation used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2018
Researchers at Menlo Labs uncovered a malicious email campaign targeting employees of banks and financial services companies abusing Google Cloud Storage. The campaign targeted organizations in the US and the UK, the attackers have been abusing Google Cloud Storage to deliver payload. The spam campaign uses messages including links that point to archivefiles such as .zip or .gz. Attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2018
U.S. Authorities Take Down 15 DDoS-for-Hire Websites The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that the FBI seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services. The FBI has seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services (aka booters or stressers) that were used by their customers to launch powerful DDoS attacks. The U.S. District Court for the Central […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2018
The British teenager George Duke-Cohan (19) has been sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and carrying out DDoS attacks.A Cohan was arrested in August by the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA), the teenager, aka “7R1D3N7,” “DoubleParallax” and “optcz1,” was arrested on August 31 and pleaded guilty to three counts of making hoax […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2018
Europol announced the arrest of 168 people under the European Money Mule Action ‘EMMA 4′, a massive operation that resulted in the identification of 1,504 money mules. Europol announced that 168 people have been arrested under the ‘EMMA 4’, an international operation conducted by law enforcement. EMMA 4 lasted from September to November 2018. Law enforcement in […]
