Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2021
Researchers have discovered a strain of cryptocurrency-mining malware, tracked as Crackonosh, that abuses Windows Safe mode to avoid detection. Researchers from Avast have spotted a strain of cryptocurrency miner, tracked as Crackonosh, that abuses Windows Safe mode to avoid detection. “While the Windows system is in safe mode antivirus software doesnât work. This can enable the malicious Serviceinstaller.exe to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2021
On June 14th, Altus Group, a commercial real estate software solutions firm, disclosed a security breach, now Hive ransomware gang leaked its files. On June 14th, Altus Group, a commercial real estate software solutions company, has announced that its data was breached. A week later, they reported âno evidence of impactâ. Now, we have information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2021
Cybercriminals published for sale in Dark Web 58GB of data stolen from Hollingsworth LLP. One of the emerging underground marketplaces of stolen data ‘Marketo’ available in TOR network announced the publication of data presumably stolen from Hollingsworth LLP, one of the largest U.S.-based law firms. The information about the new victim of ransomware activity first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2021
The Clop ransomware members that were recently arrested laundered over $500M in ransomware payments for several malicious actors. The members of the Clop ransomware gang that were recently arrested in Ukraine laundered over $500M for several cybercrime groups. Data related to the money laundering activities were provided by the cryptocurrency exchange portal Binance, who tracked the group as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2021
Flaws affecting the BIOSConnect feature of Dell Client BIOS could be exploited by a privileged attacker to execute arbitrary code at the BIOS/UEFI level of the impacted device. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Eclypsium discovered multiple vulnerabilities affecting the BIOSConnect feature of Dell Client BIOS that could be exploited by a privileged attacker to execute arbitrary code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2021
The LV ransomware operators repurposed a REvil binary to create their own strain and launch a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). A threat actor known as LV ransomware gang is trying to enter the cybercrime arena, it repurposed a REvil binary almost to create their own strain and launch a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). The Sodinokibi/REvil is one of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2021
DarkRadiation is a new strain of ransomware implemented in Bash that targets Linux and Docker cloud containers and leverages Telegram for C2. Trend Micro researchers spotted a new strain of ransomware, dubbed DarkRadiation, which is writted in Bash script and target Linux distributions (Red Hat/CentOS and Debian) and Docker cloud containers. The ransomware uses OpenSSL’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2021
Belgium city of Liege has suffered today a ransomware attack that has disrupted the IT network of the municipality and its online services. Liege, one of the biggest cities in Belgium, was hit by a ransomware attack that has disrupted the IT network of the municipality and its online services. “The City of Liège is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2021
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. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. APWG: Phishing maintained near-record levels in the first quarter of 2021 BackdoorDiplomacy APT targets diplomats from Africa and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2021
This strange malware stops you from visiting pirate websites Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from being able to visit a large number of piracy websites. Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from visiting a large number of websites dedicated to software piracy by modifying the HOSTS […]
