Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2021
The cyber threat landscape change continuously, recently two new ransomware-as-service (RaaS) operations named BlackMatter and Haron made the headlines. Recently, two new ransomware gangs, named BlackMatter and Haron, announced the beginning of the operations. The Haron malware was first described by the South Korean security firm S2W Lab, three day after a first sample of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2021
A new variant of the LockBit 2.0 ransomware is now able to encrypt Windows domains by using Active Directory group policies. Researchers from MalwareHunterTeam and BleepingComputer, along with the malware expert Vitali Kremez reported spotted a new version of the LockBit 2.0 ransomware that encrypts Windows domains by using Active Directory group policies. Kramez explained that this is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2021
A China-linked cyberespionage group, tracked as PKPLUG, employed a previously undocumented strain of a RAT dubbed THOR in recent attacks. A China-linked cyberespionage group tracked as PKPLUG (aka Mustang Panda and HoneyMyte), which is known for targeting Southeast Asia, exploited vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Exchange Server to deploy a previously undocumented variant of PlugX on compromised systems. Researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2021
The No More Ransom initiative celebrates its fifth anniversary, over 6 million victims of ransomware attacks recover their files for free saving almost €1 billion in payments. No More Ransom is celebrating its 5th anniversary, the initiative allowed more than 6 million ransomware victims to recover their files for free saving roughly $1 billion in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2021
Researchers demonstrated how to hide malware inside an image classifier within a neural network in order to bypass the defense solutions. Researchers Zhi Wang, Chaoge Liu, and Xiang Cui presented a technique to deliver malware through neural network models to evade the detection without impacting the performance of the network. Tests conducted by the experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2021
Microsoft published mitigations for the recently discovered PetitPotam attack that allows attackers to force remote Windows machines to share their password hashes. Microsoft has released mitigations for the recently discovered PetitPotam NTLM attack that could allow attackers to take over a domain controller. A few days ago, security researcher Gilles Lionel (aka Topotam) has discovered a vulnerability in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2021
XCSSET macOS malware continues to evolve, now it is able to steal login information from multiple apps, including Telegram and Google Chrome. Security researchers from Trend Micro continues to monitor the evolution of the XCSSET macOS malware, new variants are able to steal login information from multiple apps, including Telegram and Google Chrome, and send […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2021
Estonian hacker Pavel Tsurkan has pleaded guilty in a United States court to the counts of computer fraud and of creating and operating a proxy botnet. The Estonian national Pavel Tsurkan has pleaded guilty in a United States court to two counts of computer fraud and abuse. According to court documents, Pavel Tsurkan (33) operated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2021
The Threat Report Portugal: Q1 2021 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from April to June, Q2, of 2021 The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática. This feed is based on automatic searches and is also supported […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2021
Check Point Research (CPR) experts have spotted a cheap malware, dubbed XLoader variant, which was upgraded to target both Windows and macOS PCs. XLoader is a very cheap malware strain that is based on the popular Formbook Windows malware. FormBook is a data-stealing malware that is used in cyber espionage campaigns, like other spyware it is […]
