Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2022
The Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group revealed that its Pegasus spyware was used by at least five European countries. The controversial Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group told the European Union lawmakers that its Pegasus spyware was used by at least five countries in the region. NSO Group’s General Counsel Chaim Gelfand admitted that the company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2022
Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting government resources and critical infrastructure in Lithuania after the ban of Russian railway goods Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting Lithuanian government resources and critical infrastructure – the recent ban on Russian railway goods has caused a new spike of hacktivist activity on the Dark Web. Today the group has announced multiple targets […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2022
Researchers from Malwarebytes warns that the Magecart skimming campaign is active, but the attacks are more covert. Magecart threat actors have switched most of their operations server-side to avoid detection of security firms. However, Malwarebytes researchers warn that the Client-side Magecart attacks are still targeting organizations, but are more covert. The researchers recently uncovered two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2022
I’m proud to announce that SecurityAffairs was awarded as the Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 at European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022. The winners of the annual European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards have been announced. Security affairs has been voted for the third consecutive year as the Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 at European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2022
Researchers linked a new APT group, tracked as ToddyCat, to a series of attacks targeting entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. Researchers from Kaspersky have linked a new APT group, tracked as ToddyCat, to a series of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. The threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2022
Experts discovered a new kind of Windows NTLM relay attack dubbed DFSCoerce that allows taking control over a Windows domain. Researchers warn of a new Windows NTLM relay attack dubbed DFSCoerce that can be exploited by threat actors to take control over a Windows domain. The DFSCoerce attack relies on the Distributed File System (DFS): Namespace Management Protocol (MS-DFSNM) to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2022
Experts identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. Resecurity, Inc. (USA) has identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. The identified resources in one of the malicious campaigns impersonate various services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet MaliBot Android Banking Trojan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2022
The developers behind the BRATA Android malware have implemented additional features to avoid detection. The operators behind the BRATA Android malware have implemented more features to make their attacks stealthy. The malware was first spotted in 2019 by security experts at Kaspersky, the name BRAT comes from ‘Brazilian RAT Android,’ because at the time it was used to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2022
Experts warn of a new ech0raix ransomware campaign targeting QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Bleeping Computer and MalwareHunterTeam researchers, citing user reports and sample submissions on the ID Ransomware platform, warn of a new wave of ech0raix ransomware attacks targeting QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. The ransomware, tracked by Intezer as “QNAPCrypt” and “eCh0raix” by Anomali, is […]
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