Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
Under Armour became aware of a potential security breach on March 25, the company said an unauthorized party had accessed MyFitnessPal user data. Under Armour learned of the data breach on March 25, it promptly reported the hack to law enforcement and hired security consultants to investigate the incident. Attackers hacked the MyFitnessPal application that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
Security researchers at Arbor Networks have discovered a threat actor targeting financial institutions in Japan using the Panda Banker banking malware (aka Zeus Panda, PandaBot). Panda Banker was first spotted 2016 by Fox-IT, it borrows code from the Zeus banking Trojan. In November 2017, threat actors behind the Zeus Panda banking Trojan leveraged black Search Engine Optimization (SEO) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2018
A recently discovered Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit has been used to spread a variety of malware, including RATs and banking Trojans. Security experts at Proofpoint recently discovered a Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit that has been used to spread a variety of malware, including banking Trojans and RATs (i.e. Trickbot, Chthonic, FormBook and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2018
Researchers at Morphisec have uncovered a watering hole attack on leading Hong Kong Telecom website exploiting the CVE-2018-4878 flash vulnerability. Security experts at Morphisec have discovered a watering hole attack on leading Hong Kong Telecom website exploiting the CVE-2018-4878 flash vulnerability. In a watering hole attack, hackers infect the websites likely to be visited by their targeted victims, this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2018
Security experts at Cisco Talos discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed online. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed online. The malicious code was written in Go programming language, uncommon for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2018
The head of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 targeted banks worldwide has been arrested in Spain. The mastermind suspected of stealing about ÂŁ870m (âŹ1bn) in a bank cyber heist has been arrested in Spain. The man is suspected to be the kingpin of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2018
Recently Reddit decided to ban the biggest darknet subreddit, /r/darknetmarkets, used by crime communities to discuss producta and services in the most popular darknet markets. Darknet markets have a crucial role in the cybercrime underground, they are excellent places of aggregation for the demand and the offer of illegal products and services. Communities around principal Darknet markets […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2018
Trend Micro uncovered a new crypto mining campaign targeting Linux servers that exploit the CVE-2013-2618 flaw in Cactiâs Network Weathermap plug-in, which system administrators use to visualize network activity. Security firm Trend Micro uncovered new crypto mining campaign, a cybercriminal gang has made nearly $75,000 by installing a Monero miner on vulnerable Linux servers. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2018
Computer systems in the City of Atlanta were infected by ransomware, the cyber attack was confirmed by the City officials. The city learned of the attack at around 5:40 am local time on Thursday. On Thursday, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on Thursday that a malware has taken in hostage some internal systems, city’s data were encrypted. Mayor @KeishaBottoms holds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2018
Security experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new Android Trojan dubbed TeleRAT that uses Telegram Bot API to communicate with the command and control (C&C) server and to exfiltrate data. TeleRAT appears to be originating from and/or to be targeting individuals in Iran, experts found similarities with another Android malware dubbed IRRAT Trojan, which also leverages […]
