malware

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2019
Champagne Bakery Cafe and Islands burger chain disclose payment card breaches

The news of two new payment card breaches made the headlines, the victims are the Islands restaurant chain and Champagne French Bakery Cafe. The new restaurant chains with locations across the U.S. disclosed payment card breaches, in both cases, attackers used PoS malware to capture card data stored in the magnetic stripe. Exposed data includes […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 245

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs From iPhone to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM – exploit ‘Printconfig dll with a real-world example Iran announced to have foiled a second cyber-attack in a week Largest hospital system in New Jersey was hit by ransomware attack A thief stole […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2019
Unveiling JsOutProx: A New Enterprise Grade Implant

Experts at Yoroi/Cybaze ZLab spotted a new sophisticated malware implant dubbed JsOutProx that seems to be unrelated to mainstream cyber weapons. Introduction During our threat intelligence source monitoring operations, we spotted a new sophisticated malware implant, dubbed JsOutProx, that seems to be unrelated to mainstream cyber weapons. In fact, the recovered sample raised many interrogatives […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2019
Maze Ransomware operators threaten victims to publish their data online

The victims of the Maze Ransomware now face another threat because operators behind the malware could publish their data online. The victims of the Maze Ransomware are facing another risk, after having their data encrypted now crooks are threatening to publish their data online. The Maze ransomware also implements data harvesting capabilities, operators are threatening […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2019
Emotet distributed with emails posing as German authorities, BSI warns

BSI, Germany’s federal cybersecurity agency warns of an active malspam campaign that distributing the infamous Emotet banking Trojan. Germany’s federal cybersecurity agency BSI is warning of an active malspam campaign that aims at distributing the Emotet banking Trojan. The malicious messages camouflaged to look like messages delivered by German federal authorities. According to the BSI, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2019
Trend Micro observed notable malware activity associated with the Momentum Botnet

Security experts recently found notable malware activity affecting devices running Linux that is associated with the Momentum Botnet. Malware researchers from Trend Micro recently observed notable malware activity affecting devices running Linux that is associated with the Momentum Botnet. Experts revealed details on the tools and techniques used by the botnet to compromise Linux devices […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2019
Gangnam Industrial Style APT campaign targets industrial firms worldwide

Experts discovered that at least 200 companies were the victims of a campaign, dubbed Gangnam Industrial Style, carried out by an advanced persistent threat (APT) group.  Experts from the CyberX’s threat intelligence team Section 52 uncovered an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Gangnam Industrial Style, that targeted industrial, engineering, and manufacturing organizations, most of them in South […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2019
Ryuk Ransomware is suspected to be involved in the New Orleans cyberattack

New evidence suggests that in the recent attack against the systems at the City of New Orleans was used the Ryuk ransomware. Over the weekend, New Orleans officials announced in a press conference that the city was hit by a ransomware attack, the incident was discovered in the morning of December 13, 2019. The IT […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2019
Largest hospital system in New Jersey was hit by ransomware attack

The largest hospital in New Jersey announced on Friday that a ransomware attack last week disrupted its network and that it paid a ransom. The largest hospital in New Jersey, the Hackensack Meridian Health, was the victim of a ransomware attack last week that disrupted its network, the IT staff decided to pay the ransom […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2019
A malvertising campaign targets iPhone users with Krampus-3PC

A malvertising campaign that involved more than 100 publisher websites targeted iPhone users to deliver the Smart Krampus-3PC Malware. According to The Media Trust’s Digital Security & Operations (DSO) team, iPhone users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign that has impacted more than 100 publisher websites, including online newspapers and international weekly news magazines. […]