Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2022
China-linked Mustang Panda APT group targets entities in Asia, the European Union, Russia, and the US in a new wave of attacks. In February 2022, Cisco Talos researchers started observing China-linked cyberespionage group Mustang Panda conducting phishing attacks against European entities, including Russian organizations. The attacks were also reported by Google’s TAG team, which confirmed they were for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2022
Conti Ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Peru MOF – Dirección General de Inteligencia (DIGIMIN) and stolen 9.41 GB. The Conti ransomware gang added the Peru MOF – Dirección General de Inteligencia (DIGIMIN) to the list of its victims on its Tor leak site. The National Directorate of Intelligence is the premier intelligence agency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2022
The American agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO announced that has suffered a ransomware attack that impacted its production facilities. AGCO, one of the most important agricultural machinery manufacturers, announced that a ransomware attack impacted some of its production facilities. The company was forced to shut down portions of its IT systems in response to the incident. AGCO did […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2022
Researchers discovered a new Windows malware, dubbed Raspberry Robin, with worm-like capabilities that spreads via removable USB devices. Cybersecurity researchers from Red Canary have spotted a new Windows malware, dubbed Raspberry Robin, with worm-like capabilities that propagates through removable USB devices. “Raspberry Robin is Red Canary’s name for a cluster of activity we first observed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2022
Experts spotted a malware campaign that is the first one using a technique of hiding a shellcode into Windows event logs. In February 2022 researchers from Kaspersky spotted a malicious campaign using a novel technique that consists of hiding the shellcode in Windows event logs. The technique allows hiding a fileless Trojan, the experts also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2022
Researchers discovered a sophisticated malware framework, dubbed NetDooka, distributed via a pay-per-install (PPI) malware service known as PrivateLoader. Trend Micro researchers uncovered a sophisticated malware framework dubbed NetDooka that is distributed via a pay-per-install (PPI) service known as PrivateLoader and includes multiple components, including a loader, a dropper, a protection driver, and a full-featured remote […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2022
Uptycs researchers identified ongoing malicious campaigns through our Docker honeypot targeting exposed Docker API. The Uptycs Threat Research team has identified ongoing malicious campaigns through our Docker honeypot targeting exposed Docker API port 2375. The attacks are related to crypto miners and reverse shells on the vulnerable servers using base64-encoded commands in the cmdline, built […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2022
A security researcher discovered that samples of Conti, REvil, LockBit ransomware were vulnerable to DLL hijacking. The security researcher John Page aka (hyp3rlinx) discovered that malware from multiple ransomware operations, including Conti, REvil, LockBit, AvosLocker, and Black Basta, are affected by flaws that could be exploited block file encryption. Page shared its findings through its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2022
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is working on a tool to conduct a dynamic analysis of packages uploaded to popular open-source repositories. The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) announced the release of the first version of a new tool, dubbed Package Analysis, to perform dynamic analysis of the packages uploaded to popular open-source repositories. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2022
The REvil ransomware gang has resumed its operations, experts found a new encryptor and a new attack infrastructure. The REvil ransomware operation shut down in October 2021, in January the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced to have shut down the REvil ransomware gang, the group that is behind a long string of attacks against large organizations, such as Kaseya and JBS […]
