Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2020
Experts warn of a new malware strain, dubbed PXJ Ransomware, that does share the same underlying code with existing ransomware families. Security experts from IBM X-Force have spotted a new strain of ransomware, dubbed PXJ Ransomware, that does share the same code with other known ransomware families. While PXJ performs typical ransomware functions, it does […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Facebook sues Namecheap to protect people from domain name fraud Netgear fixes a critical RCE that could allow to takeover Flagship Nighthawk routers New Coronavirus-themed malspam campaign delivers FormBook Malware The City of Durham shut down its network […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2020
In this post, I decided to share the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from February 1 to March 15, 2020. February 1, 2020 – Crooks start exploiting Coronavirus as bait to spread malware Security researchers warn of campaigns aimed at spreading malware that exploits media attention on the COVID-19 epidemic. February 25, 2020 – South Korea […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2020
A cybercrime gang focused on Business Email Compromise (BEC) has started using coronavirus-themed scam emails in its attacks. While the Coronavirus is spreading worldwide cybercriminals and nation-state actors are launching COVID19-themed attacks on a global scale. Most of the attacks aimed at spreading malware to control victims’ computers and stealing sensitive data, but now a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2020
While the Coronavirus is spreading worldwide, a massive cyber attack hit the town hall of Marseille and the metropolis. Ahead of the 2020 municipal elections in Marseille that will take place on 15 and March 22, a ‘massive and widespread’ cyber attack hit the city of Marseille as well as the metropolis Aix-Marseille-Provence The 2020 municipal elections in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2020
Crooks continue to abuse the interest in Coronavirus outbreak, now experts found a new backdoor called BlackWater that pretends to provide information about COVID-19. Experts found a new backdoor malware called BlackWater that pretends to provide information about the COVID-19 outbreak while abusing Cloudflare Workers as an interface to the C2 server. Cloudflare Workers provide a serverless execution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2020
This week US President Donald Trump signed a bill that assigns $1 billion to small telecom providers for replacing equipment made by Chinaâs Huawei and ZTE. US President Donald Trump continues its battle against the Chinese telco giants Huawei and ZTE, this week he has signed a bill that assigns $1 billion to small telecom providers for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2020
Tor Project maintainers warned users about a severe flaw in the Tor browser that may execute JavaScript code on sites it should not. The Tor Project announced a major bug in the Tor browser that may cause the execution of JavaScript code on sites for which users have specifically blocked JavaScript. The development team at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2020
A cyber attack hit one of the major COVID-19 testing laboratories in Czech, the Brno University Hospital in the city of Brno. While the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is spreading on a global scale, crooks and nation-state actors are launching Coronavirus-themed attacks against targets worldwide. The healthcare systems of any country are under pressure, for this reason, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2020
European authorities dismantled two cybercrime organizations responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. European authorities managed to dismantle the operations of two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. In SIM hijacking attacks (aka SIM swapping attacks) crooks are able to port the phone number of the victims to a new SIM card […]
