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Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2023
Caesars Entertainment paid a ransom to avoid stolen data leaks

Caesars Entertainment announced it has paid a ransom to avoid the leak of customer data stolen in a recent intrusion. Caesars Entertainment is the world’s most geographically diversified casino-entertainment company. It is the largest gaming company in the United States, with over 50 casinos and hotels in 13 U.S. states and five countries. The company […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2023
Free Download Manager backdoored to serve Linux malware for more than 3 years

Researchers discovered a free download manager site that has been compromised to serve Linux malware to users for more than three years. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a free download manager site that has been compromised to serve Linux malware. While investigating a set of suspicious domains, the experts identified that the domain in question has […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023
Lockbit ransomware gang hit the Carthage Area Hospital and the Clayton-Hepburn Medical Center in New York

LockBit ransomware group breached two hospitals, the Carthage Area Hospital and the Clayton-Hepburn Medical Center in New York. The Lockbit ransomware group claims to have hacked two major hospitals, the Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center. The two hospitals serve hundreds of thousands of people in upstate New York. The cyberattack took place at […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023
UK Greater Manchester Police disclosed a data breach

UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to some of its employees’ personal information. UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced that threat actors had access to the personal information of some of its employees after an unnamed third-party supplier was hit with a ransomware attack. The GMP reported that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023
The iPhone of a Russian journalist was infected with the Pegasus spyware

The iPhone of a prominent Russian journalist, who is at odds with Moscow, was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The iPhone of the Russian journalist Galina Timchenko was compromised with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. A joint investigation conducted by Access Now and the Citizen Lab revealed that the journalist, who is at odds with the Russian government, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2023
A new ransomware family called 3AM appears in the threat landscape

3AM is a new strain of ransomware that was spotted in a single incident in which the threat actors failed to deploy the LockBit ransomware in the target infrastructure. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team discovered a new ransomware family, which calls itself 3AM, that to date has only been deployed in a single incident in which the threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2023
Save the Children confirms it was hit by cyber attack

The international non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children International was recently hit with a cyberattack. The charity organization Save the Children International revealed that it was hit by a cyber attack. The company disclosed the security incident after the ransomware gang BianLian listed the organization on its Tor leak site. The BianLian extortion group claims […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2023
Iranian Charming Kitten APT targets various entities in Brazil, Israel, and the U.A.E. using a new backdoor

Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten used a previously undocumented backdoor named Sponsor in attacks against entities in Brazil, Israel, and the U.A.E. ESET researchers observed a series of attacks, conducted by the Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten (aka Ballistic Bobcat APT, APT35, Phosphorus, Newscaster, TA453, and Ajax Security Team), which are targeting various entities in Brazil, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates. The Charming […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2023
UK and US sanctioned 11 members of the Russia-based TrickBot gang

The U.K. and U.S. governments sanctioned 11 more individuals who were alleged members of the Russia-based TrickBot cybercrime gang. The United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom, sanctioned eleven more individuals who are members of the Russia-based Trickbot cybercrime group. The sanctions were provided by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2023
New HijackLoader malware is rapidly growing in popularity in the cybercrime community

Zscaler ThreatLabz detailed a new malware loader, named HijackLoader, which has grown in popularity over the past few months HijackLoader is a loader that is gaining popularity among the cybercriminal community. The malware is not sophisticated, however, unlike other loaders, it has a modular structure that allows supporting code injection and execution. The HijackLoader is […]