Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2021
Accenture security researchers published an analysis of the latest Hades campaign, which is ongoing since at least December 2020. Accenture’s Cyber Investigation & Forensic Response (CIFR) and Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) teams published an analysis of the latest campaign conducted by financially motivated threat group Hades which have been operating since at least December 2020. Experts discovered that threat actors targeted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2021
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open source tool to encrypt entire drives. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open-source tool (aka HDDCryptor, HDD Cryptor) to encrypt entire drives. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2021
Facebook has closed accounts used by a China-linked APT to distribute malware to spy on Uyghurs activists, journalists, and dissidents living outside China. Facebook has taken action against a series of accounts used by a China-linked cyber-espionage group, tracked as Earth Empusa or Evil Eye, to deploy surveillance malware on devices used by Uyghurs activists, journalists, and dissidents living […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2021
Security experts reported that a second ransomware gang, named Black Kingdom, is targeting Microsoft Exchange servers. After the public disclosure of ProxyLogon vulnerabilities, multiple threat actors started targeting vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online. The first ransomware gang exploiting the above issues in attacks in the wild was a group tracked as DearCry. Last crew […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2021
This week, IoT company Sierra Wireless disclosed a ransomware attack that hit its internal IT systems on March 20 and disrupted its production. Sierra Wireless is a Canadian multinational wireless communications equipment designer and manufacturer headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The company sells mobile computing and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications products that work over cellular […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2021
The Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for computers in the ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. The experts gathered data related to the cyberthreats that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2021
Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. Acer is the world’s 6th-largest PC vendor by unit sales as of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2021
CISA and FBI are warning of ongoing TrickBot attacks despite security firms took down the C2 infrastructure of the infamous botnet in October. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warn of ongoing Trickbot attacks despite in October multiple security firms dismantled its C2 infrastructure in a joint operation. On […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2021
Unknown threat actors have been using a new XcodeSpy Mac malware to target software developers who use Appleâs Xcode integrated development environment. Researchers at SentinelOne uncovered a series of attacks involving a new XcodeSpy used to deliver a custom variant of a backdoor tracked as EggShell. The EggShell allows threat actors to spy on users, capture […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2021
The FBIâs Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report, which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. The FBIâs Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has published its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report, which provides information from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes affecting victims in the U.S.. Data that […]
