Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2020
Experts spotted a new version of the IcedID banking trojan that uses steganography to infect victims as part of COVID-19 themed attacks. A new version of the IcedID banking trojan was employed in COVID-19 themed attacks, the new variant uses steganography to infect victims and implements anti-detection capabilities. Researchers at Juniper Threat Labs have spotted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2020
The United States has deported the author of NeverQuest banking malware, the computer programmer Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov to Russia. The United States has deported the computer programmer Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov (35) to Russia, he is the author of NeverQuest banking malware, Lisov was arrested in January 2017 at the Barcelona airport by the Guardia Civil. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2020
Security researchers at threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered over 230.000 Indonesian COVID-19 patients records leaked in the darknet. As part of a regular Deepweb and Darkweb monitoring activity, researchers at threat intelligence firm Cyble identified a credible threat actor who was selling the database of COVID-19 patients of Indonesia. The threat actor is offering around […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2020
Shlayer Mac malware is back, the Mac threat is now spreading through new black SEO operations. Researchers spotted a new version of the Shlayer Mac malware that is spreading via poisoned Google search results. Researchers at security firm Intego observed the new variant being spread masqueraded as a fake Adobe Flash Player installer (.DMG disk […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2020
Threat actors adapted their tactics to exploit the interest in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft says. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, threat actors started to actively deploy opportunistic campaigns using Coronavirus lures. Anyway, Microsoft says that malware attacks that abused the COVID-19 theme only had a temporary effect on the total volume of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2020
Malicious Chrome browser extensions were employed in a surveillance campaign on a large scale, millions of users potentially impacted. Malicious Chrome browser extensions were used in a massive surveillance campaign aimed at users working in the financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, healthcare, government organizations, and pharmaceuticals. The malicious Chrome browser extensions were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2020
The Australian brewery and dairy conglomerate Lion was hit for the second time by a cyber attack, media reported. The Australian beverages company and dairy conglomerate Lion was the victim of a new cyberattack, Sydney Morning Herald reported. Lion is a beverage and food company that operates in Australia and New Zealand, and a subsidiary of Japanese […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2020
US authorities this week announced sanctions against six Nigerian nationals for their involvement in business email compromise (BEC) and romance fraud schemes. The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Department of Justice announced sanctions against six Nigerians for their involvement in business email compromise (BEC) and romance […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2020
In April the information technologies services giant Cognizant Technology suffered a ransomware attack, now it has confirmed also a data breach. In April the information technologies services giant Cognizant Technology was hit by Maze Ransomware operators. Cognizant is an American multinational corporation that provides IT services, it is one of the largest IT managed services company in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2020
Researchers uncovered an ongoing campaign delivering the Qbot malware to steal credentials from customers of dozens of US financial institutions. Security researchers at F5 Labs have spotted ongoing attacks using Qbot malware payloads to steal credentials from customers of dozens of US financial institutions. Qbot, aka Qakbot, is a data stealer worm with backdoor capabilities that […]
