Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2019
A Ryuk Ransomware attack has taken down the corporate IT network of a Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facility. Ryuk Ransomware continues to infect systems worldwide, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announced that the malware took down the corporate IT network of a Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facility. “The purpose of this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2019
In September Zynga, the American social game developer running social video game services suffered a data breach that 173 Million accounts. Zynga Inc is an American social game developer running social video game services founded in April 2007, it primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. Among the online games developed by the company, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2019
A new Mozi P2P botnet is actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. Security experts from 360 Netlab spotted a new Mozi P2P botnet that is actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. According to the researchers, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2019
Maze ransomware operators have released 2GB of files that were allegedly stolen from the City of Pensacola during the recent attack. On December 7, 2019, the city of Pensacola has been hit by a ransomware attack, the city was forced to disconnect most of its systems following the attack that impacted emails, telephone lines, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2019
Critical CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway could be exploited to access company networks, 80,000 companies at risk worldwide. A critical vulnerability in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway), tracked as CVE-2019-19781, could be exploited by attackers to access company networks. It has been estimated that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2019
Lithuanian man Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to five years in jail for stealing $120 Million from Google and Facebook employees. Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to five years of prison for stealing $120 Million from Google and Facebook employees with business email compromise (BEC) attacks carried out between 2013 and 2015. The Lithuanian citizen Evaldas Rimasauskas (48) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2019
U.S. Justice Department announced that three members of the cybercrime group behind the GozNym banking Trojan have been sentenced to prison. U.S. Justice Department announced that three members of the cybercrime group behind the GozNym banking Trojan have been sentenced to prison. The crooks infected more than 4,000 victim computers globally with GozNym banking Trojan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2019
Experts spotted a massive global Emotet malware campaign that uses as lure documents the Swedish climate-change activist Greta Thunberg. Crooks always attempt to monetize the media interest on specific topics, and the recent Greta Thunberg-themed Emotet campaign confirms it. Experts from the Proofpoint Threat Insight team have spotted a malspam campaign delivering the Emotet malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2019
A former contractor of British airline Jet2 has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a cyberattack that shut down the airline’s systems for over 12 hours. Scott Burns, a former contractor of British low-cost airline Jet2 has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a cyberattack that shut down the company systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2019
A 22-year-old man was sentenced for his involvement in an extortion attempt against Apple, he threatened to mass-hack iCloud accounts. Kerem Albayrak, a 22-year-old man from North London who claimed to have access to over 300 million iCloud accounts and threatened to factory reset all accounts unless Apple pays a ransom, was sentenced today in London. In […]
