Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2020
Organizations managing supercomputers across Europe reported their systems have been compromised to deploy cryptocurrency miners. Crooks have compromised supercomputers across Europe to deploy cryptocurrency miners, incidents have been already reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. Rumors are circulating about a similar infection of a supercomputer located in Spain. The supercomputers have shut down to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2020
This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from May 10 to May 16, 2020. Threat actors exploit the interest in the Coronavirus outbreak while infections increase worldwide, experts are observing new campaigns on a daily bases. Below a list of attacks detected this week. May 12 – Zeus Sphinx continues to be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2020
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining campaign targets web apps Shiny Hunters group is selling data from 11 companies on the Dark Web Swiss rail vehicle manufacturer Stadler hit by a malware-based attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2020
Elexon, a middleman in the UK power grid network, recently reported it was hit by a cyber attack. Elexon, a middleman in the UK power grid network, was the victim of a cyber attack, the incident impacted only affected the internal IT network, including the company’s email server, and employee laptops “Hackers have targeted a critical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2020
Microsoft has recently announced that it has made some of its COVID-19 threat intelligence open-source. While the number of Coronavirus-themed attacks continues to increase increased Microsoft announced it is open-sourcing its COVID-19 threat intelligence to help organizations to repeal these threats. “Microsoft processes trillions of signals each day across identities, endpoint, cloud, applications, and email, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2020
Experts spotted a new malware dubbed QNodeService that was involved in Coronavirus-themed phishing campaign, crooks promise victims COVID-19 tax relief. Researchers uncovered a new malware dubbed QNodeService that was employed in a Coronavirus-themed phishing campaign. The operators behind the campaign use COVID-19 lure promising victims tax relief. The phishing messages use Trojan sample associated with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2020
Chinese threat actors, tracked as Tropic Trooper and KeyBoy, has been targeting air-gapped military networks in Taiwan and the Philippines. Chinese APT group Tropic Trooper, aka KeyBoy, has been targeting air-gapped military networks in Taiwan and the Philippines, Trend Micro researchers reported. The Tropic Trooper APT that has been active at least since 2011, it was first spotted in 2015 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2020
Britain’s Ministry of Defence contractor Interserve has been hacked, intruders have stolen up to 100,000 past and present employees’ details. Interserve, a contractor for the Britain’s Ministry of Defence suffered a security breach, hackers have stolen up to 100,000 of past and current employees details. The company currently has around 53,000 employees. Stolen data includes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2020
Russia-linked cyberespionage group Turla targets diplomatic entities in Europe with a new piece of malware tracked as COMpfun. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new cyberespionage campaign carried out by Russia-linked APT Turla that employs a new version of the COMpfun malware. The new malware allows attackers to control infected hosts using a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2020
Palo Alto Networks addressed tens of vulnerabilities in PAN-OS, the software that runs on the company’s next-generation firewalls. Palo Alto Networks has issued security updates to address tens of vulnerabilities in PAN-OS, the software that runs on the company’s next-generation firewalls. One of the most severe vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-2018, is an authentication bypass vulnerability […]
