Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2019
Another day, another victim of a ransomware attack, this time major ASP.NET hosting provider SmarterASP announced it was infected by ransomware. SmarterASP.NET is one of the most popular ASP.NET hosting providers, the company has more than 440,000 customers. SmarterASP announced it was hit yesterday by ransomware attack. The attack encrypted customer data and the company’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2019
Kaspersky researchers have found a new advanced backdoor used by the Platinum advanced persistent threat (APT) group in attacks in the wild. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new backdoor, tracked as Titanium, that was used by the Platinum APT group in attacks in the wild, the malicious code implements sophisticated evasion techniques. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2019
Microsoft is warning once again of more BlueKeep attacks that could deliver disruptive payloads and urges organizations to patch their systems. Recently, researchers warned of the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit, the attack aimed at installing a cryptocurrency miner on the infected systems. The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2019
A recently discovered exploit kit dubbed Capesand is being involved in live attacks despite the fact that it’s still under development. In October 2019, researchers at TrendMicro discovered a new exploit kit dubbed Capesand that is being involved in live attacks. The tool was discovered while analyzing a malvertising campaign employing the RIG EK to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2019
Experts observed a new phishing campaign that used a specially crafted ZIP archive that was designed to bypass secure email gateways to distribute malware. Attackers have devised a new technique to distribute malware bypassing secure email gateways and other security solutions by using a specially crafted ZIP file. The structure of a ZIP archive contains […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2019
Another organization in the healthcare industry was a victim of a Ransomware attack, this time the victim is Brooklyn Hospital. A ransomware attack has infected several computer systems at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York, the organization permanently lost patient data. The patient records encrypted in the attack include names and certain dental or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2019
Kaspersky discovered a previously unknown APT group, tracked as DarkUniverse, by analyzing Shadow Brokers’ “Lost in Translation” data dump. In 2017, a hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers stolen malware and hacking tools from the arsenal of the NSA-Linked Equation Group, then it published online the data dump called “Lost in Translation.” The dump […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2019
Security experts warn of a new piece of malware dubbed QSnatch that already infected thousands of QNAP NAS devices worldwide. A new piece of malware dubbed QSnatch is infecting thousands of NAS devices manufactured by the Taiwanese vendor QNAP. The name comes after the target vendor and the “snatching” activity the malware performs. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2019
Expert Marco Ramilli and his team analyzed the sample that infected systems at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, it is a targeted attack. During the past few days a cyber attack hit Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant: the largest nuclear power plant located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The news was announced on Monday, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2019
Experts have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit, crooks leverage the exploit to install a cryptocurrency miner. Security researchers have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit, the attack aims at installing a cryptocurrency miner on the infected systems. In May, Microsoft warned users to update their systems to address […]
