Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2020
Ukrainian authorities arrested the members of a cybercrime gang who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges involved in money laundering. Police in Ukraine announced the arrest of the members of a cybercrime gang composed of three individuals who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges used in money laundering activities. According to the Ukrainian officials, the cryptocurrency exchanges allowed crooks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2020
Security researchers have discovered a new crypto-minining botnet, dubbed TeamTNT, that is able to steal AWS credentials from infected servers. Security firm Cado Security reported that the TeamTNT botnet is the first one that is able to scan and steal AWS credentials. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2020
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat confirmed that thousands of user accounts for online Canadian government services were recently hacked. According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked. The hackers targeted the GCKey service with credential stuffing attacks, the service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2020
Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware operators announced on Friday to have hacked Brown-Forman, one of the largest U.S. firm in the spirits and wine business. Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware operators announced last week to have breached the network of the Brown-Forman, one of the largest U.S. firm in the spirits and wine business. Threat actors claim to have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2020
The Emotet malware has begun to spam COVID19-themed emails to U.S. businesses after not being active for most of the USA pandemic. The infamous Emotet malware is back, operators have begun to spam COVID-19 themed emails to the U.S. businesses. Early this year, the Emotet malware was employed in spam COVID19-themed campaigns that targeted those countries that were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2020
Security researchers have discovered a PoC exploit code available online that can be used to trigger unpatched security flaws in Apache Struts 2. Security researchers have discovered a PoC code and exploit available on GitHub that that can be used to trigger the security vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2. The Proof-of-concept exploit code was released […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2020
A new Mac malware, tracked as XCSSET, spreads through Xcode projects and exploits two zero-day vulnerabilities, experts warn. XCSSET is a new Mac malware that spreads through Xcode projects and exploits two zero-day vulnerabilities to steal sensitive information from target systems and launch ransomware attacks. The first zero-day issue is used to steal cookies via […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2020
Since January 2020, the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT has successfully compromised dozens of organizations in Israel and other countries. The Israeli defence ministry announced on Wednesday that it had foiled a cyber attack carried out by a foreign threat actor targeting the country’s defence manufacturers. According to the officials, the attack was launched by “an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2020
Maze ransomware operators have leaked online the unencrypted files allegedly stolen from Canon during a recent ransomware attack. According to an internal memo obtained by ZDNet last week, the recent outage suffered by Canon was caused by a ransomware attack, at the same time Maze ransomware operators were taking the credit for the incident. The memo […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2020
China-linked threat actor tracked as CactusPete was employing an updated backdoor in recent attacks targeting military and financial organizations in Eastern Europe. A China-linked APT group, tracked by Kaspersky as CactusPete (aka Karma Panda or Tonto Team), was observed using an updated backdoor in recent attacks targeting military and financial organizations in Eastern Europe. The […]
