Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. FCC adds Kaspersky to Covered List due to unacceptable risks to national security Anonymous […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2022
Ukraine CERT (CERT-UA) released details about a campaign that SentinelLabs linked with the suspected Chinese threat actor tracked as Scarab. Ukraine CERT (CERT-UA) published technical details about a malicious activity tracked as UAC-0026, which SentinelLabs associated with China-linked Scarab APT. Scarab APT was first spotted in 2015, but experts believe it has been active since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2022
Ukraine CERT-UA warns of cyberattack aimed at Ukrainian enterprises using the a wiper dubbed DoubleZero. Ukraine CERT-UA continues to observe malware based attacks aimed at Ukrainian organizations, in a recent alert it warned of attacks employing a wiper dubbed DoubleZero. The government CERT started observing this campaign on March 17, 2022, threat actors launched spear-phishing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2022
Internet search engine Censys reported a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks targeting QNAP NAS devices. Internet search engine Censys reported that QNAP devices were targeted in a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks. Since January, DeadBolt ransomware operators are targeting QNAP NAS devices worldwide, its operators claim the availability of a zero-day exploit that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2022
A new email campaign aimed at French entities leverages the Chocolatey Windows package manager to deliver the Serpent backdoor. Proofpoint researchers uncovered a targeted attack leveraging an open-source package installer Chocolatey to deliver a backdoor tracked as Serpent. The campaign targeted French entities in the construction, real estate, and government industries. Experts believe the attacks were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2022
Ukraine CERT (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing attacks conducted by UAC-0035 group (aka InvisiMole) on state organizations of Ukraine. The Government Team for Response to Computer Emergencies of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing messages conducted by UAC-0035 group (aka InvisiMole) against Ukrainian state bodies. The messages use an archive named “501_25_103.zip”, which contains a shortcut file. Upon opening […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2022
A Ukrainian security researcher has leaked more source code from the Conti ransomware operation to protest the gang’s position on the conflict. Hacker leaked a new version of the Conti ransomware source code on Twitter as retaliation of the gang’s support to Russia The attack against the Conti ransomware and the data leak is retaliation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2022
The DirtyMoe botnet continues to evolve and now includes a module that implements wormable propagation capabilities. In June 2021, researchers from Avast warned of the rapid growth of the DirtyMoe botnet (PurpleFox, Perkiler, and NuggetPhantom), which passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2022
This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the previous weeks: March 18 – China-linked threat actors are targeting the government of Ukraine Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. EU and US agencies warn that Russia could attack satellite communications networks Avoslocker ransomware […]
