Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2019
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Â Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns organizations about high-impact ransomware attacks. In a wake of the recent string of attacks against cities, school districts and hospitals, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Â Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued organizations about high-impact ransomware attacks. “Ransomware attacks are becoming more targeted, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2019
The Ukrainian police dismantled a bot farm involved in spam campaigns carried out through various services, including email and social networks. Cybercrime is a prolific business, criminal organizations continues to make profits with illegal activities in the cyberspace, but police are ready to contrast them. Cyber experts at the Ukrainian police dismantled a bot farm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2019
Dutch police seized a bulletproof hosting service in a major takedown, the infrastructure was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks. A joint operation conducted by the Netherlands’ National Criminal Investigation Department and National Cyber Security Center allowed to track down and seize five servers that were composing a cybercrime underground bulletproof […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
Authorities are investigating an American Express employee for unauthorized access to cardholder information and potentially abuse for fraud. Authorities launched a criminal investigation on an American Express employee that is suspected to accessed to cardholder information and potentially abused for fraud. Exposed information includes full name, physical and/or billing address, Social Security numbers, birth dates, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
A new wave of ransomware attacks hit US and Australian hospitals and health service providers causing the paralysis of their systems. Several hospitals and health service providers from the U.S. and Australia were hit by ransomware attacks that forced the administrators to shut part of their IT infrastructure. “Ten hospitalsâthree in Alabama and seven in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
Adwind is back, a new variant of the popular RAT is targeting US petroleum industry entities with new advanced features. A new variant of the popular Adwind RAT (aka jRAT, AlienSpy, and JSocket) is targeting entities in the US petroleum industry. The new variant implements advanced features such as multi-layer obfuscation. The malware is distributed via a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
Demant, a leading international hearing health care company, expects to incur losses of up to $95 million following a ransomware attack. Last month, Demant suffered a cyber attack that caused important problems to its operations, the company has yet to recover after the attack, a circumstance that suggests it was hit by a ransomware attack. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2019
A recently observed a malvertising campaign carried out by a threat group dubbed eGobbler that hijacked roughly 1.16 billion ad impressions. Researchers at Confiant observed a malvertising campaign carried out by a threat actor dubbed eGobbler hijacked roughly 1.16 billion ad impressions to redirect victims to websites hosting malicious payloads. The campaign was observed between August 1 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2019
Experts recently analyzed an information-stealing malware tracked as Arcane Stealer V that is very cheap and easy to buy in the Dark Web. In July 2019, researchers at Fidelis Threat Research Team (TRT) analyzed a sample of Arcane Stealer V, a .net information-stealing malware that is easy to acquire in the dark web. The author […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2019
Adobe and Google Open Redirects Abused by Phishing Campaigns Experts reported that phishing campaigns are leveraging Google and Adobe open redirects to bypass spam filters and redirect users to malicious sites. Phishers are abusing Google and Adobe open redirects to bypass spam filters and redirect users to malicious sites. Crooks abuse Google and Adobe services […]
