IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2021
Hotarus Corp gang hacked Ecuador’s Ministry of Finance and Banco Pichincha

‘Hotarus Corp’ Ransomware operators hacked Ecuador’s largest private bank, Banco Pichincha, and the country’s Ministry of Finance. ​A cybercrime group called ‘Hotarus Corp’ has breached the Ecuador’s largest private bank, Banco Pichincha, and the local Ministry of Finance (the Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas de Ecuador). The group claims to have also stolen data from […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2021
T-Mobile customers were hit with SIM swapping attacks

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks. Crooks conduct SIM swapping attacks to take control of victims’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2021
New Ryuk ransomware implements self-spreading capabilities

French experts spotted a new Ryuk ransomware variant that implements self-spreading capabilities to infect other devices on victims’ local networks. Experts from French national cyber-security agency ANSSI have spotted a new Ryuk ransomware variant that implements worm-like capabilities that allow within local networks. “On top of its usual functions, this version holds a new attribute […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2021
Microsoft releases open-source CodeQL queries to assess Solorigate compromise

Microsoft announced the release of open-source CodeQL queries that it experts used during its investigation into the SolarWinds supply-chain attack Microsoft has announced the availability of open-source CodeQL queries that the IT giant used during its investigation into the SolarWinds attack. In early 2021, the US agencies FBI, CISA, ODNI, and the NSA released a joint […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2021
Data Breach: Turkish legal advising company exposed over 15,000 clients

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. The server contained 55,000 court papers regarding over 15,000 legal cases, which affected hundreds of thousands of people. What’s Going On? Our online security team has uncovered a massive data breach originating from a misconfigured […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2021
Hackers are selling access to Biochemical systems at Oxford University Lab

Hackers have broken into the biochemical systems of an Oxford University lab where researchers are working on the study of Covid-19. Hackers compromised the systems at one of the most advanced biology labs at the Oxford University that is involved in the research on the Covid-19 pandemic. The news was disclosed by Forbes and the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2021
Dutch Research Council (NWO) confirms DoppelPaymer ransomware attack

Dutch Research Council (NWO) confirmed that the recent cyberattack that forced it to take its servers offline was caused by the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang. On February 14, Dutch Research Council (NWO) was hit by a cyber attack that compromised its network and impacted its operations. In response to the incident, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2021
China-linked TA413 group target Tibetan organizations

The Chinese hacking group, tracked as TA413, used a malicious Firefox add-on in a cyberespionage campaign aimed at Tibetans. China-linked cyberespionage group TA413 targeted Tibetan organizations across the world using a malicious Firefox add-on, dubbed FriarFox, that allowed them to steal Gmail and Firefox browser data and deliver malware on infected systems. “We attribute this […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2021
Cisco fixes three critical bugs in ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator, Application Services Engine, and NX-OS

Cisco addressed over a dozen vulnerabilities in its products, including three critical bugs in ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator, Application Services Engine, and NX-OS software. Cisco released security updates to address over a dozen vulnerabilities affecting multiple products, including three critical flaws impacting its ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator, Application Services Engine, and NX-OS software. The most severe vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2021
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle backdoor

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has targeted the defense industry with the custom-backdoor dubbed ThreatNeedle since 2020. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has targeted the defense industry with the backdoor dubbed ThreatNeedle since early 2020. The state-sponsored hackers targeted organizations from more than a dozen countries. The experts discovered the custom backdoor while investigating an […]