Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2021
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass issue (CVE-2021-20090) affecting home routers with Arcadyan firmware. Threat actors actively exploit a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20090, impacting home routers with Arcadyan firmware to deploy a Mirai bot. “A path traversal vulnerability in the web interfaces of Buffalo WSR-2533DHPL2 firmware version <= 1.02 and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2021
Taiwanese manufacturer and distributor of computer hardware GIGABYTE was a victim of the RansomEXX ransomware gang. RansomEXX ransomware gang hit the Taiwanese manufacturer and distributor of computer hardware GIGABYTE and claims to have stolen 112GB of data. At the time of this writing, the leak site of the RansomEXX gang dosn’t include the company name, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2021
RansomEXX ransomware operators hit the popular Italian luxury fashion house Ermenegildo Zegna Holding and started leaking stolen files. Zegna is one of the most famous Italian luxury fashion houses. It was founded in 1910 by Ermenegildo Zegna in Trivero, Biella Province of the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. Ermenegildo Zegna Group is the largest menswear brand in the world by revenue. As of 2018, Ermenegildo Zegna […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2021
BlackMatter gang rapidly evolves, the group has developed a Linux version that allows operators to targets VMware’s ESXi VM platform. The BlackMatter ransomware gang has implemented a Linux encryptor to targets VMware ESXi virtual machine platform. This is the last ransomware in order of time that is able to target VM platforms, some of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2021
An affiliate of the Conti RaaS has leaked the training material shared by the group with its network along with the info about one of the operators. An affiliate of the Conti RaaS has leaked the training material provided by the group to the customers of its RaaS, he also published the info about one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2021
The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently observed Golang-based worm dropping cryptominer binaries which use the MSR (Model Specific Register) driver.  By UPTYCS THREAT RESEARCH Original research by Siddarth Sharma The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently observed Golang-based worm dropping cryptominer binaries which use the MSR (Model Specific Register) driver to disable hardware prefetchers and increase the speed of the mining […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2021
ERG SPA, an Italian energy company, reports a minor impact on its operations after the recent ransomware attack conducted by LockBit 2.0 gang. Recently the Italian energy company ERG was hit by the LockBit 2.0 ransomware gang, now the company reported “only a few minor disruptions” for its ICT infrastructure. The company is active in the production of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2021
Researchers found evidence that the DarkSide ransomware gang has rebranded as a new BlackMatter ransomware operation. BleepingComputer found evidence that after the clamorous Colonia Pipeline attack, the DarkSide ransomware gang has rebranded as a new BlackMatter ransomware operation. The experts analyzed encryption algorithms in a decryptor used by BlackMatter, which is actively attacking corporate entities. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2021
Experts spotted a new strain of Android banking Trojan dubbed Vultur that uses screen recording and keylogging for the capturing of login credentials. ThreatFabric researchers discovered a new Android banking Trojan, tracked as Vultur, that uses screen recording and keylogging to capture login credentials. Vultur was first spotted in late March 2021, it gains full […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2021
The recent attack against Iranâs national railway system was caused by a wiper malware dubbed Meteor and not by a ransomware as initially thought. According to research from Amnpardaz and SentinelOne, the recent attack against Iranâs national railway system was caused by a wiper malware dubbed Meteor and not by ransomware as initially thought. Meteor was a previously undetected strain of malware, but experts […]
