Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2020
Tedrade banking malware families target users worldwide

The Tetrade term coined by Kaspersky experts to refer four large banking trojan families developed and spread by Brazilian crooks worldwide. Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky Lab have detailed four different families of Brazilian banking trojans, tracked as Tetrade, that have targeted financial institutions in Brazil, Latin America, and Europe. The four malware families are named Guildma, Javali, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2020
A flaw in Zoom’s Vanity URL feature could have been exploited in phishing attacks

A vulnerability affecting the Zoom feature dubbed Vanity URL could have been exploited by hackers for phishing attacks. A vulnerability affecting the Zoom feature dubbed Vanity URLs could have been exploited by hackers for phishing attacks. The popularity of the Zoom video conferencing service exploded during the COVID-19 outbreak when it was chosen by organizations, schools, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2020
Ghost Squad Hackers defaced a second European Space Agency (ESA) site in a week

A group of hacktivists that goes online with the name Ghost Squad Hackers has defaced for the second time in a week a site of the European Space Agency (ESA). Last week a group of hackers that goes online with the name Ghost Squad Hackers announced the defacement of a site of the European Space Agency […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2020
Twitter reveals that hackers also downloaded data from eight compromised accounts

The social media giant Twitter confirmed that hackers compromised 130 accounts in last week hack and downloaded data from eight of them. Last week, the social media platform Twitter has suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, hackers breached a number of high-profile accounts, including those of Barak Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2020
Security Affairs newsletter Round 273

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. Google updates policies to ban any ads for surveillance solutions and services Hacker claims to have breached Night Lion security firm Malware campaign attempts to evade analysis with Any.Run sandbox […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2020
Diebold Nixdorf warns of a wave of ATM black box attacks across Europe

ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf is warning banks a new ATM black box attack technique that was recently employed in cyber thefts in Europe. Black box attacks are a type of jackpotting attack aimed at forcing an ATM to dispense the cash by sending a command through a “black box” device. In this attack, a black box […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2020
Emotet botnet surges back after months of absence

After months of inactivity, the infamous Emotet trojan has surged back with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The notorious Emotet went into the dark since February 2020, but now has surged back with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2020
Experts warn of massive internet scans for SAP systems affected by RECON Vulnerability

Hackers have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability, researchers from Bad Packets warn. Researchers from Bad Packets reported that threat actors have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability, , tracked as  CVE-2020-6287. Immediately after a researcher released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for the RECON vulnerability, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2020
Orange Business Services hit by Nefilim ransomware operators

Security researchers at Cyble reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly targeted the mobile network operator Orange. Researchers from Cyble came across a post of Nefilim ransomware operators which were claiming to have stolen sensitive data of Orange S.A., one of the largest mobile networks based in France. The discovery was made by the experts during their regular […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2020
Iran-linked APT35 accidentally exposed 40 GB associated with their operations

Iran-linked APT35 group accidentally exposed one of its servers, leaving online roughly 40 GB of videos and other files associated with its operations. Researchers at IBM X-Force Incident Response Intelligence Services (IRIS) discovered an unsecured server belonging to Iran-linked APT35 group (aka ITG18, Charming Kitten, Phosphorous, and NewsBeef) containing data for many domains managed by […]