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Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2018
Magento credit card stealer Reinfector allows reinfect sites with malicious code

Cybercriminals used the ‘credit card stealer reinfector’ to reinfect the websites and continue to steal personal and financial data. Researchers at Sucuri reported crooks are using a very simple evasion technique to reinfect Magento websites after their malicious code has been removed. Cybercriminals have devised a method to hide the malicious code, the ‘credit card stealer reinfector’, used to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2018
Building a malware distribution network is too easy with Kardon Loader

Researchers at Netscout Arbor have discovered a malware downloader advertised on underground forums as a paid open beta product, its name is Kardon Loader. Researchers from Netscout Arbor have discovered a downloader advertised on underground forums dubbed Kardon Loader, it allows customers to build a malware distribution network or a botshop. Advs for Kardon Loader were first discovered on April 21, 2018, the author […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2018
Chronicle launches VirusTotal Monitor to reduce false positives

Alphabet owned cybersecurity firm Chronicle announced the launch of a new VirusTotal service that promises to reduce false positives.  VirusTotal Monitor service allows developers to upload their application files to a private cloud store where they are scanned every day using anti-malware solutions from antivirus vendors in VirusTotal. Every time the service flags the file as malicious, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2018
Flight tracking service Flightradar24 suffered a data breach

The popular flight tracking service Flightradar24 has discovered a data breach that affected one of its servers. The company notified the incident to its users via email and asked them to change their passwords, affected users’ passwords have been reset. FlightRadar24 promptly reported the incident to the Swedish Data Protection Authority in order to comply with the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2018
China-linked Thrip APT group target defense and satellite firms

Symantec tracked a new APT group named Thrip that targeted0 satellite operators, telco companies and defense contractors in the US and Southeast Asia. Chinese APT groups are always very active, experts at Symantec have tracked a new APT group named Thrip that has breached the systems of satellite operators, telecommunications companies and defense contractors in the United States and Southeast Asia. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2018
Hackers Steal $31 Million from South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb

Just weeks after Korean exchange Coinrail was hacked, the Bithumb crypto exchange was hacked, crooks stole over $30 million in cryptocurrency. It has happened again, for the second time in a year, the cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has been hacked. The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange confirmed that hackers stole 35 billion won ($31.6 million) worth of cryptocurrency […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2018
ZeroFont phishing attack can bypass Office 365 protections

ZeroFont phishing attack – Crooks are using a new technique that involves manipulating font sizes to bypass Office 365 protections. According to cloud security firm Avanan, one of the detection mechanisms in Office 365 involves natural language processing to identify the content of the messages typically used in malicious emails. For example, an email including […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2018
Olympic Destroyer was involved in a new wave of cyber attacks

Olympic Destroyer, the malicious code that was used in attacks against Winter Games in Pyeongchang, was involved in a new wave of cyber attacks. The same malware used in recent Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, tracked as Olympic Destroyer, has been used in a new wave of attacks against organizations in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2018
Does Cryptocurrency Encourage Crime?

Is cryptocurrency making some wrongdoings harder to commit while making others more rampant in society? Does Cryptocurrency Encourage Crime? People hear a lot about how cryptocurrency — and particularly the blockchain technology associated with it — could decrease some kinds of crime because it’s so transparent and all transactions become part of an unchangeable record. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2018
Ex-CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte charged with leaking Vault 7 dumps

An Ex-CIA employee, Joshua Adam Schulte (29), has been charged with stealing classified national defense information and sharing Vault 7 dumps with WikiLeaks. Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that Schulte has been charged with 13 count indictment. In middle May, both The New York Times and The Washington Post, revealed the name of the alleged source of the Vault 7 […]