Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2023
The State of Maine disclosed a data breach that impacted about 1.3 million people after an attack hit its MOVEit file transfer install. The State of Maine was the victim of the large-scale hacking campaign that targeted organizations using the MOVEit file transfer tool. The Government organization disclosed a data breach that impacted about 1.3 million individuals. Threat actors […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2023
The Royal Malaysian Police announced the seizure of the notorious BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform. The Royal Malaysian Police announced to have dismantled the notorious BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform. A joint international operation conducted by the Malaysian police, the FBI, and the Australian Federal Police took down several domains employed in the cybercriminal operation. “We seized around RM960,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2023
The Serbian citizen Milomir Desnica (33) has pleaded guilty to running the dark web Monopoly drug marketplace. Milomir Desnica, a 33-year-old Serbian citizen, admited to being responsible for operating the illicit Monopoly drug marketplace on the dark web. The man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia to charges of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2023
McLaren Health Care (McLaren) experienced a data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information of approximately 2.2 million individuals. McLaren Health Care (McLaren) disclosed a data breach that occurred between late July and August. The security breach exposed the sensitive personal information of 2,192,515 people. McLaren Health Care is a nonprofit health care organization based in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2023
Microsoft spotted the exploitation of a SysAid zero-day vulnerability in limited attacks carried out by the Lace Tempest group. Microsoft reported the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-47246, in the SysAid IT support software in limited attacks. The IT giant linked the attacks to the Clop ransomware gang (aka Lace Tempest). The company reported the flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2023
On-demand moving and delivery platform Dolly.com allegedly paid a ransom but crooks found an excuse not to hold their end of the bargain. Cybercriminals are hardly a trustworthy bunch. Case in point: Dolly.com. The Cybernews research team believes that the platform suffered a ransomware attack and at least partially paid the ransom â but was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2023
The FBI published a PIN alert warning of ransomware operators compromising third-party vendors and services for initial access to target environments. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a Private Industry Notification (PIN) to warn of ransomware initial access trends and provide recommendations to reduce the attack surface to ransomware attacks. As of July 2023, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2023
Five Canadian hospitals were victims of a ransomware attack, threat actors claim to have stolen data from them and leaked them. Five Canadian hospitals revealed they were victims of ransomware attacks after threat actors leaked alleged stolen data. The impacted hospitals are Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, HĂ´tel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, and Windsor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2023
Threat actors infected more than 10,000 devices worldwide with the ‘PrivateLoader’ and ‘Amadey’ loaders to recruit them into the proxy botnet ‘Socks5Systemz.’ Bitsight researchers uncovered a proxy botnet delivered, tracked as Socks5Systemz, which was delivered by PrivateLoader and Amadey loaders. The name Socks5Systemz comes from the name of the unique login panel consistently present in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2023
The Treasury Department sanctioned a Russian woman accused of laundering virtual currency on behalf of cybercriminals. The Department of the Treasuryâs Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday sanctioned Ekaterina Zhdanova, a Russian national, for her role in laundering and managing virtual currency on behalf of Russian elites, ransomware operators, and other threat actors. âThrough […]
