Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2022
Google is going to pay $391.5 million to settle with 40 states in the U.S. for secretly collecting personal location data. Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million to settle with 40 US states for misleading users about the collection of personal location data. The settlement is the largest attorney general-led consumer privacy settlement ever, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2022
Trend Micro reported that the Earth Longzhi group, a previously undocumented subgroup of APT41, targets Ukraine and Asian Countries. Early this year, Trend Micro investigated a security breach suffered by a company in Taiwan. Threat actors employed a custom Cobalt Strike loader in the attack. Further analysis, revealed that the same threat actor targeted multiple regions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2022
Experts warn of a malicious SEO campaign that has compromised over 15,000 WordPress websites to redirect visitors to fake Q&A portals. Since September 2022, researchers from security firm Sucuri have tracked a surge in WordPress malware redirecting website visitors to fake Q&A sites via ois[.]is. The campaign’s end goal appears to be black hat SEO aimed at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2022
Researchers spotted a new evasive malware, tracked as KmsdBot, that infects systems via an SSH connection that uses weak credentials. Akamai Security Research discovered a new evasive Golang-based malware, tracked as KmsdBot, that infects systems via an SSH connection that uses weak login credentials. The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2022
Russian threat actors employed a new ransomware family called Somnia in attacks against multiple organizations in Ukraine. The Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA is investigating multiple attacks against organizations in Ukraine that involved a new piece of ransomware called Somnia. Government experts attribute the attacks to the group ‘From Russia with Love’ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2022
Ukraine’s Cyber Police and Europol arrested 5 Ukrainian citizens who are members of a large-scale transnational fraud group. Ukraine’s cyber police and Europol arrested five members of a transnational fraud group that caused more than 200 million losses per year. The arrests are the results of a joint operation conducted with the support of law […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2022
The Lockbit 3.0 ransomware gang started leaking the information allegedly stolen from the global high-tech company Thales. Thales is a global high-tech leader with more than 81,000 employees worldwide. The Group invests in digital and deep tech innovations – big data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum – to build a future of trust, essential […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2022
Experts discovered two new malicious dropper apps on the Google Play Store distributing the Xenomorph banking malware. Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered a couple of malicious dropper apps on the Play Store distributing the Xenomorph banking malware. Xenomorph was first spotted by ThreatFabric researchers in February 2022, at the time the malware was employed in attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2022
Sobeys, the second-largest supermarket chain in Canada, was he victim of a ransomware attack conducted by the Black Basta gang. Sobeys Inc. is the second largest supermarket chain in Canada, the company operates over 1,500 stores operating across Canada under a variety of banners. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Empire Company Limited, a Canadian business conglomerate. During […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2022
An initial access broker claims to have hacked Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its systems for sale on Telegram. A threat actor (0x_dump) claims to have hacked the multinational investment bank Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its network for sale online. The security researcher Dominic Alvieri was one of the first experts […]
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