Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice charged nine individuals connected to a hacking crew focused on identity theft and SIM swapping attacks. The U.S. DoJ announced charges against nine individuals, 6 members of a hacking group known as ‘The Community’ and 3 former employees of mobile phone providers. The latter group helped the hackers to steal roughly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2019
Global information services company Wolters Kluwer took offline has taken offline many of its applications and platforms in response to a ransomware attack. Another ransomware attack made hit a big company, this time the victim is the Global information services giant Wolters Kluwer that took offline some of the affected systems after the incident. Wolters […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2019
Police seized the DeepDotWeb website and arrested its operators for their business in facilitating the access to darkweb marketplaces and vendors. DeepDotWeb was a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces. The site was seized and the arrests were made as part of an international operation involving the FBI, Europol, and Federal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2019
For the second time in a year, systems of the city of Baltimore has been hit by a ransomware attack, forcing officials to shut down a majority of them. The city of Baltimore shut down most of its servers in response to a ransomware attack that hit its network. Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. Jack Young […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2019
Hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin from Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange The hack of another cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin (over 7,000 bitcoins) from Binance. Binance is one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, its founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao confirmed that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2019
Early April, experts at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab spotted a new interesting malware sample, likely active since 2017, that was linked to ATMitch attacks. In the first days of April, our threat monitoring operations spotted a new interesting malware sample possibly active in the wild since 2017. Its initial triage suggests it may be part of an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2019
Experts at security firm Sophos discovered a new strain of ransomware dubbed MegaCortex that is targeting corporate networks. Security experts at Sophos discovered a new piece of ransomware dubbed MegaCortex that is targeting corporate networks. MegaCortex attacks were already reported in the United States, Italy, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and Ireland. “A new ransomware that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2019
Security experts at Proofpoint warn of the resurfacing of the Retefe banking Trojan that implements new techniques to avoid detection. The Retefe banking Trojan resurfaces in that threat landscape and implements new techniques to avoid detection. The new variant resurfaced in April, it uses the stunnel encrypted tunneling mechanism and abuses a legitimate shareware app. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2019
International ‘Malvertiser’ Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov extradited from the Netherlands to face hacking charges in New Jersey The Ukrainian national Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov (31) was extradited to the U.S. from the Netherlands and is facing charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and computer fraud. The man is suspected to have carried out malvertising […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2019
Magecart group stole payment card details from the e-commerce system used by colleges and universities in Canada and the US. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen Magecart groups at least since 2015. The gangs use to implant skimming script into compromised online stores in order to steal payment card data, but they are quite […]
