Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2020
Threat actors targeted industrial suppliers in Japan and several European countries in sophisticated attacks, Kaspersky reported. Researchers from Kaspersky’s ICS CERT unit reported that threat actors targeted industrial suppliers in Japan and several European countries in sophisticated attacks. The experts first observed the attacks in early 2020, while in early May, threat actors targeted organizations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2020
The U.S. NSA warns that Russia-linked APT group known as Sandworm Team have been exploiting a critical flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA). The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is warning that Russia-linked APT group tracked Sandworm Team has been exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149) in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2020
Israel ’s national cyber chief acknowledged the country had thwarted a major cyber attack in April against its water systems. Israel’s national cyber chief Yigal Unna officially confirmed that the country in April had thwarted a major cyber attack against its water systems. The media, citing officials that spoke under condition of anonymity, attributed the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2020
Valak malware has rapidly changed over the past six months, it was initially designed as a loader, but now it implemented infostealer capabilities. The Valak malware completely changed over the past six months, it was first developed to act as a loader, but now it implements also infostealer capabilities. The malicious code fist appeared in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2020
The Ke3chang hacking group added a new malware dubbed Ketrum to its arsenal, it borrows portions of code and features from older backdoors. The Ke3chang hacking group (aka APT15, Vixen Panda, Playful Dragon, and Royal APT) has developed new malware dubbed Ketrum by borrowing parts of the source code and features from their older Ketrican and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2020
Microsoft is warning organizations to deploy protections against a new strain of PonyFinal ransomware that has been in the wild over the past two months. Microsoft’s security team issued a series of tweets warning organizations to deploy protections against a new piece of ransomware dubbed PonyFinal that has been in the wild over the past […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2020
Real estate app leaking thousands of user records and sensitive private messages The CyberNews research team uncovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service bucket of confidential user chat logs belonging to Real estate app Tellus, a US-based software company. Tellus is a software company based in Palo Alto, California, backed by “well-known investors” that aims […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2020
The number of ransomware attacks increased by 40 percent last year, according to Group-IB attackers think bigger and grow more advanced. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, found out that the year of 2019 was marked by ransomware evolution and was dominated by increasingly aggressive ransomware campaigns, with its operators resorting to more cunning […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2020
A joint operations conducted by experts from Chinese firms Qihoo 360 Netlab and Baidu dismantle the ShuangQiang ‘s botnet infecting over hundreds of thousands of systems. A joint operation conducted by Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab and tech giant Baidu disrupted a botnet operated by a group tracked as ShuangQiang (aka Double Gun) that infected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2020
A new piece of ransomware dubbed FuckUnicorn it targeting Italy by tricking victims into downloading a fake COVID-19 contact tracing app. A new ransomware dubbed FuckUnicorn has been targeting computers in Italy by tricking victims into downloading a fake contact tracing app, named Immuni, that promises to provide real-time updates for the COVID-19 outbreak. The COVID-19-themed campaign […]
