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Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2021
Russian citizen Anton Bogdanov sentenced to 5 years for cyber tax fraud scheme

Russian hacker Anton Bogdanov was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment for attempting to steal $1.5 million in tax refunds by hacking into tax preparation firms. The Russian citizen Anton Bogdanov (35), aka Kusok, was sentenced by a US Chief District Judge to 5 years of prison for wire fraud conspiracy and computer intrusions. The man attempted […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2021
Blind SQL Injection flaw in WP Statistics impacted 600K+ sites

Experts discovered a Time-Based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in the WP Statistics plugin which is installed on over 600,000 WordPress sites. Researchers from the Wordfence Threat Intelligence discovered a Time-Based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in WP Statistics, which is a WordPress plugin with over 600,000 active installs. The plugin was developed by VeronaLabs, it provides complete […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2021
Google addresses 4 zero-day flaws in Android exploited in the wild

Google released Android Security Bulletin for May 2021 security updates that address four zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild. Android Security Bulletin for May 2021 security updates address four zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-1905, CVE-2021-1906, CVE-2021-28663 and CVE-2021-28664, that were actively exploited in the wild. The four vulnerabilities impact Qualcomm GPU and Arm […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2021
Hacking the infotainment system used in Mercedes-Benz cars

Security researchers identified five vulnerabilities in the infotainment system in Mercedes-Benz cars, four of them are remotely exploitable. Security researchers with Tencent Security Keen Lab identified five vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-23906, CVE-2021-23907, CVE-2021-23908, CVE-2021-23909, and CVE-2021-23910, in the latest infotainment system in Mercedes-Benz cars. The experts focused their analysis on the Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2021
Conti ransomware gang also breached Ireland Department of Health (DoH)

Conti ransomware also breached the network of Ireland’s Department of Health (DoH) but the ransomware failed to encrypt the systems. Last week, Conti ransomware gang targeted the Ireland’s Health Service Executive that was forced to shut down its IT systems on Friday after being targeted with a significant ransomware attack. The Health Service Executive opted to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2021
DarkSide ransomware made $90 million since October 2020

Researchers from blockchain analysis firm Elliptic estimated that Darkside ransomware gang has made over $90 million from its attacks. Experts from blockchain analysis firm Elliptic estimated that the Darkside ransomware gang has earned over $90 million from ransom payments from its victims since October 2020. The researchers examined the Bitcoin wallets used by ransomware gang […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2021
European Council extends sanctions against foreign threat actors

European Council extended for one year the sanctions against foreign threat actors that threaten the European Union and its member states. The European Council announced that it will extend for one year the framework for sanctions against threat actors that launched cyberattacks against the infrastructure of the European Union and its member states. The Council Decision […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2021
Analysis of NoCry ransomware: A variant of the Judge ransomware

Researchers at Tesorion released a decryptor for Judge ransomware that also decrypts files encrypted by the NoCry ransomware. In January this year, we published a blog post on our analysis of the Judge ransomware. We announced a free decryptor for Judge victims in this blog post, which is available through the NoMoreRansom initiative. Our decryptor has been helping […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2021
Discovery of Simps Botnet Leads To Ties to Keksec Group

Uptycs’ threat research team discovered a new botnet, tracked as Simps botnet, attributed to Keksec group, which is focused on DDOS activities Uptycs’ threat research team has discovered a new Botnet named ‘Simps’ attributed to Keksec group primarily focussed on DDOS activities. We discovered the Simps Botnet binaries downloaded via shell script sample and Remote Code […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2021
Bizarro banking Trojan targets banks in Brazil and abroad

Bizarro is a new sophisticated Brazilian banking trojan that is targeting customers of tens of banks in Europe and South America. Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted a new sophisticated Brazilian banking trojan dubbed Bizarro that is targeting customers of tens of 70 banks in Europe and South America. Bizarro banking Trojan allows to capture online […]