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Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2021
ScamClub malvertising gang abused WebKit zero-day to redirect to online gift card scams

Malvertising gang ScamClub has exploited an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in WebKit-based browsers in a campaign aimed at realizing online gift card scams. The Malvertising gang ScamClub has abused an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in WebKit-based browsers to bypass security measures and redirect users from legitimate sites to websites hosting online gift card scams. The malvertising campaign […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2021
Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware In the last few years, many banking trojans developed by Latin American criminals have increased in volume and sophistication. Although exists a strong adoption of technologies with the goal of protecting the final user such as plugins, tokens, e-tokens, two-factor-authentication mechanisms, CHIP, PIN […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2021
Hackers abusing the Ngrok platform phishing attacks

Researchers from threat intelligence Cyble have discovered threat actors abusing the Ngrok platform in a fresh phishing campaign. Researchers at the threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered a new wave of phishing attacks targeting multiple organizations that are abusing the ngrok platform, a secure and introspectable tunnel to the localhost. ngrok is a cross-platform application used to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2021
A new Bluetooth overlay skimmer block chip-based transactions

Experts discovered a new Bluetooth overlay skimmer that interferes with the ability of the terminal to read chip-based cards, forcing the use of the stripe. The popular investigator Brian Krebs reported the discovery of a new Bluetooth overlay skimmer that interfered with the terminal’s ability to read chip-based cards, forcing the use of the magnetic […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2021
VMware fixes command injection issue in vSphere Replication

VMware released security patches for a potentially serious vulnerability affecting the vSphere Replication product. VMware has recently released security patches to address a serious command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21976, in its vSphere Replication product. VMware vSphere Replication is an extension to VMware vCenter Server that provides hypervisor-based virtual machine replication and recovery. vSphere Replication […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2021
The malicious code in SolarWinds attack was the work of 1,000+ developers

Microsoft says it found 1,000-plus developers’ fingerprints on the SolarWinds attack Microsoft’s analysis of the SolarWinds supply chain attack revealed that the code used by the threat actors was the work of a thousand developers. Microsoft president Brad Smith provided further details about the investigation of the SolarWinds supply chain attack, the company’s analysis of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2021
French and Ukrainian police arrested Egregor ransomware affiliates/partners in Ukraine

An international operation conducted in Ukraine and France lead to the arrest of criminals believed to be affiliated with the Egregor RaaS. Some affiliated with the Egregor RaaS, not the main ransomware gang, have been arrested as a result of a joint operation conducted by law enforcement in Ukraine and France. Authorities did not reveal […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2021
The kingpin behind Joker’s Stash retires with a billionaire exit

The administrators of the most popular carding marketplace on the dark web Joker’s Stash announced his retirement. Cybercriminal behind the most prominent carding marketplace on the dark web Joker’s Stash retires, he will shut down its servers and destroy the backups. According to Forbes, the man has amassed a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin with […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2021
PayPal addresses reflected XSS bug in user wallet currency converter

PayPal has addressed a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that affected the currency converter feature of user wallets.  PayPal has fixed a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that was discovered in the currency converter feature of user wallets on February 19, 2020, close one year ago. The ‘reflected XSS and CSP bypass’ vulnerability was reported […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 301

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. COMB breach: 3.2B email and password pairs leaked online Hacking Nespresso machines to have unlimited funds to purchase […]