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Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2020
Trend Micro addresses two issues exploited by hackers in the wild

Trend Micro has addressed several serious vulnerabilities in its products, including two flaws that have been exploited in the wild. Trend Micro has released security updates to address several serious flaws in its Worry-Free Business Security, Apex One and OfficeScan products, including a couple of vulnerabilities that have been exploited by threat actors in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2020
TrueFire Guitar tutoring website was hacked, financial data might have been exposed

The online guitar tutoring website TrueFire was compromised by hackers in a classic Magecart style attack that exposed customers’ payment card data. The popular online guitar tutoring website TrueFire has suffered a ‘Magecart‘ style security breach that might have exposed customers’ personal information and payment card data. TrueFire has over 1 million users, its customer could […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2020
Operators behind Nefilim Ransomware threaten to release stolen data

Operators behind a new piece of ransomware dubbed Nefilim have started threatening victims to release stolen data like other cybercrime gangs. A new ransomware dubbed Nefilim appeared in the threat landscape at the end of February, it borrows its code from other malware, the Nemty ransomware. The main difference between the two threats is that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2020
Most ransomware attacks take place outside the working hours

Most of the ransomware attacks targeting the enterprises occur outside working hours, during the nighttime or during the weekend. Security experts from FireEye published an interesting report on the Ransomware deployment trends, it revealed that most of the attacks (76%) against the enterprise sector occur outside working hours. FireEye compiled the report using data from […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2020
Corporate Finance firms leak 500K+ legal and financial documents online

Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered two corporate finance companies that leak half a million legal and financial documents online vpnMentor experts uncovered a database exposed online on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is leaking a huge amount of sensitive legal and financial documents. “Whatever the intended purpose of this database was, over 500,000 highly sensitive and private […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2020
Ursnif campaign targets Italy with a new infection Chain

Malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new Ursnif campaign that is targeting Italy with a new infection chain. Introduction Ursnif is one of the most and widespread common threats today delivered through malspam campaigns. It appeared on the threat landscape about 13 years ago and gained its popularity since 2014 when its source […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2020
The parabola of a prolific cyber-criminal known as Dton

Check Point researchers detailed the activity of a prolific cyber-criminal known as ‘Dton’ that earned at least $100,000 US from his operations. Over the past few months, experts at Check Point have monitored the activity of a prolific cyber-criminal known as ‘Dton’. The man is active at least since 2013 and already earned at least […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2020
Attackers use a new CoronaVirus Ransomware to cover Kpot Infostealer infections

Coronavirus-themed attacks continue to increase, experts observed new Coronavirus ransomware that acts as a cover for Kpot Infostealer. Last week, security experts from MalwareHunterTeam detected new ransomware dubbed CoronaVirus has been distributed through a malicious web site that was advertising a legitimate system optimization software and utilities from WiseCleaner. In this campaign, crooks are exploiting the interest […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2020
Aerial Direct, the O2’s largest UK partner suffered a data breach

Hackers have stolen O2 customers’ data from a database run by Aerial Direct, one of the largest UK partners of the telecommunications services provider. Hackers have stolen the data of O2 customers from a database operated by Aerial Direct, which is O2’s largest direct business partner in the UK and has more than 130,000 customers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2020
Most organizations have yet to fix CVE-2020-0688 Microsoft Exchange flaw

Organizations are delaying in patching Microsoft Exchange Server flaw (CVE-2020-0688) that Microsoft fixed with February 2020 Patch Day updates. Organizations are delaying in patching Microsoft Exchange Server flaw (CVE-2020-0688) that Microsoft fixed with February 2020 Patch Day updates. The CVE-2020-0688 flaw resides in the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) component, the root cause of the problem is that Exchange servers […]