Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 230

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. Once again thank you! Cisco addresses CVE-2019-12643 critical flaw in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2019
Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost over $37 Million following BEC attack

Toyota Boshoku Corporation announced that one of its European subsidiaries lost more than $37 million due to a business email compromise (BEC) attack. Toyota Boshoku Corporation is a Japanese automotive component manufacturer, it is a member of the Toyota Group of companies.  Toyota Boshoku Corporation has announced that one of its European subsidiaries lost more than $37 million following a business […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2019
Experts found Joker Spyware in 24 apps in the Google Play store

Security experts at Google have removed from Google Play 24 apps because they were infected with a new spyware tracked as “the Joker.” Google has removed from Google Play 24 apps because they were infected with a new spyware tracked as “the Joker.” The spyware is able to steal SMS messages, contact lists and device […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2019
Thousands of servers infected with the Lilocked Ransomware

A new ransomware tracked as Lilocked (or Lilu) by researchers is actively targeting servers and encrypting the data stored on them. The Lilocked ransomware has already infected thousands of Linux-based web servers since mid-July. The Lilocked ransomware was first reported at the end of July by the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie after a sample has been  uploaded […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2019
New Bedford city infected with Ryuk ransomware, but did not pay $5.3M ransom

Another US city was the victim of a ransomware attack, this time crooks hit the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, asking for $5.3 Million Ransom, but… The systems of New Bedford, Massachusetts, were infected with ransomware and crooks asked for a $5.3 million ransom to decrypt data. The ransom was too high for the city […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2019
Crooks stole €1.5 million from German bank OLB cloning EMV cards

Criminals have stolen more than €1.5 million from the German bank OLB by cloning customer debit cards and using them to cash out user funds across Brazil. ZDnet first reported that last week cyber criminals have stolen more than €1.5 million from the German bank Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB) by cloning customer debit cards and using […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2019
One million cracked Poshmark accounts being sold online

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. Earlier in August, Poshmark, a social commerce marketplace where people in the United States can buy and sell new or used clothing, shoes, and accessories, disclosed a data breach that took place in May 2018. The company discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2019
XMR crypto miner switches from arm IoT devices to X86/I686 Intel servers

Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar reported that a cryptocurrency miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices it now targeting Intel systems. The popular researcher Larry Cashdollar, from Akamai SIRT, announced in exclusive to The Register, that he observed a miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices targeting Intel systems. The researchers revealed that one […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 229 – News of the week

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. Once again thank you! 80 defendants charged with participating in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2019
Malspam campaign bypasses secure email gateway using Google Docs

Attackers are using Google Docs to deliver the TrickBot banking Trojan to unsuspecting victims via camouflaged as PDF documents. Security experts at Cofense uncovered a malspam campaign the leverages Google Docs to deliver the TrickBot banking Trojan to unsuspecting victims via executables camouflaged as PDF documents. TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around […]