Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018
Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 4)

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 4) -Let’s try to summarize the most important event occurred last week in 3 minutes. The threats that most of all characterized this week are IoT botnets and malvertising. Security experts at NewSky’s believe the operators of the recently discovered Satori botnet are launching a new massive hacking campaign against routers to infect and recruit them in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2018
Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck to refund to customers after cyberheist

Coincheck announced it will refund about $400 million to 260,000 customers after the hack, the company will use its own funds. On Friday the news of the hack of the Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck caused the drop in the value of the major cryptocurrencies, the incident had a significant impact on the NEM value that dropped more than […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2018
Attackers behind Cloudflare_solutions Keylogger are back, 2000 WordPress sites already infected

More than 2,000 WordPress sites have been infected with a malicious script that can deliver both a keylogger and the cryptocurrency miner CoinHive. More than 2,000 sites running the WordPress CMS have been infected with a malicious script that can deliver both a keylogger and the in-browser cryptocurrency miner CoinHive. This new hacking campaign was […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2018
Download URLs for two packages of the phpBB forum software were compromised

Hacker compromised the download URLs of the popular phpBB forum software, for around three hours they were delivering infected versions of legitimate files. The popular phpBB free and open source forum software has been compromised by an unknown hacker. According to a security advisory released by the phpBB maintainers, the attacker has compromised download URLs for two […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2018
Cybercriminals are offering for sale infant fullz on the dark web

Cybercriminals are offering for sale infant fullz on the dark web, this is the first time that unscrupulous sellers offer this kind of merchandise on a black marketplace. Crooks are offering for sale Social Security numbers of babies on the dark web, the news was reported by the CNN. The news is disconcerting, this is the first time that unscrupulous […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2018
Trend Micro spotted a malvertising campaign abusing Google’s DoubleClick to deliver Coinhive Miner

Trend Micro uncovered a spike in the number of Coinhie miners over the past few days, including Coinhive, apparently linked to Google’s DoubleClick ads that are proposed on YouTube and other sites. The number of cyber-attacks against cryptocurrencies is increased due to a rapid increase in the value of currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2018
Cryptocurrencies Black Friday – Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck hacked

It is a black Friday for cryptocurrencies, after the news of the hack of the Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck the value of major cryptocurrencies dropped. It is a black Friday for cryptocurrencies, the news of the hack of the Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck had a significant impact on their value. Coincheck was founded in 2012, it is one of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2018
Monero Crypto-Currency Mining Operation impacted 30 Million users

Security experts from PaloAlto Networks uncovered a large-scale crypto-currency mining operation that involved around 30 million systems worldwide. Security experts from PaloAlto Networks have uncovered a large-scale crypto-currency mining operation active for over 4 months. Experts believe the activity involved around 30 million systems worldwide to mine the Monero cryptocurrency using the open-source XMRig utility. The threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2018
Stealth CrossRAT malware targets Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems

The popular former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle published a detailed analysis of the CrossRAT malware used by Dark Caracal for surveillance. Last week a joint report published by security firm Lookout and digital civil rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation detailed the activity of a long-running hacking group linked to the Beirut Government and tracked as Dark […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2018
A look into the cyber arsenal used by Lazarus APT hackers in recent attacks against financial institutions

Security experts at Trend Micro have analyzed malware and a tool used by the Lazarus APT group in the recent attacks against financial institutions. Security experts at Trend Micro have analyzed the attacks conducted by the notorious Lazarus APT group against financial institutions. The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its […]