Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2019
Everis and Spain’s radio network Cadena SER hit by ransomware

NTT DATA-owned firm Everis​ is one of Spain’s largest managed service providers (MSP), it has suffered a ransomware attack, and it was not the only case. Systems at Spain’s largest managed service providers (MSP) Everis have been infected by a ransomware, and it was not alone because the also Spain’s largest radio station Cadena SER […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2019
Ocala City in Florida lost $742,000 following BEC attack

Business email compromise scam (BEC) continues to target organizations worldwide, crooks stole $742,000 from Ocala City in Florida. The City of Ocala in Florida is the last victim in order of time of a profitable business email compromise scam (BEC) attack, fraudsters redirected over $742,000 to a bank account under their control. Attackers’ emails posed […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2019
QSnatch malware already infected thousands of QNAP NAS devices

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
Exclusive – Analysis of the sample that hit the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant

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
New Gafgyt botnet targets Gaming Servers

Palo Alto Networks discovered a new version of Gafgyt botnet composed of Home & Small Office Wireless routers used to attack gaming servers. Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new version of Gafgyt botnet targeting home & small office wireless routers, including Zyxel and Huawei routers, as well as devices with Realtek RTL81xx chipset. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 238

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Experts found 17 apps in the Apple App Store infected […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2019
Israel is going to extradite to US the Russian hacker Alexei Bourkov

Israel justice minister approved the extradition of a Russian alleged hacker, Alexei Bourkov, to the United States, the man is accused of fraud. Israel justice minister Justice Minister Amir Ohana has finally decided to extradite the Russian alleged hacker Alexei Bourkov to the United States where the man will be judged for fraud accusation. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2019
Details for 1.3 million Indian payment cards available on the dark web, its the biggest single card database ever

Group-IB discovered details for 1.3 million Indian payment cards available for sale on Joker’s Stash, it is the largest card database ever Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has detected that a huge database presumably holding the total of more than 1.3 million credit and debit card records of mostly Indian […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2019
U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Krystal suffered a payment card incident

The U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Krystal is notifying its customers of a security breach that could have exposed their payment card data. The U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Krystal suffered a payment card data breach, the company is notifying its customers of the incident that affected one of its payment processing systems. Krystal also reported the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2019
New FuxSocy Ransomware borrows code from defunct Cerber

Researchers discovered a new piece of ransomware called FuxSocy that borrows part of code from Cerber ransomware. Experts at MalwareHunterTeam discovered a new piece of ransomware called FuxSocy that borrows part of code from Cerber ransomware. The Cerber ransomware was first spotted in 2016, it was offered in the criminal underground as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). The name of the […]