Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2021
US water company WSSC Water is investigating a ransomware attack that affected non-essential business systems in May. WSSC Water is investigating a ransomware attack that took place on May 24 and that targeted a portion of their network that operates non-essential business systems. According to reports from WJZ13 Baltimore, the company removed the malware just hours later and locked out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2021
Kaseya was addressing the zero-day vulnerability that REvil ransomware gang exploited to breach on-premise Kaseya VSA servers. A new supply chain attack made the headlines, on Friday the REvil ransomware gang hit the Kaseya cloud-based MSP platform impacting MSPs and their customers. The REvil ransomware operators initially compromised the Kaseya VSA’s infrastructure, then pushed out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2021
Threat actors compromised the servers of Mongolian certificate authority (CA) MonPass and used its website to spread malware. Hackers compromised the servers of the Mongolian certificate authority (CA) MonPass and used its website to spread malware, reported Avast researchers. According to the experts, the security breach took place at least six months ago, MonPass was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2021
A supply attack by REvil ransomware operators against Kaseya VSA impacted multiple managed service providers (MSPs) and their clients. A new supply chain attack made the headlines, this afternoon, the REvil ransomware gang hit the cloud-based MSP platform impacting MSPs and their customers. Kaseya has 40,000 customers, not all use the VSA tool which is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2021
Wizard Spider, the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet, is believed to be the author of a new ransomware family dubbed Diavol, Fortinet researchers report. Researchers from Fortinet reported that a new ransomware family, tracked as Diavol, might have been developed by Wizard Spider, the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet. The Trickbot botnet was used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2021
The recently leaked Babuk Locker ransomware builder was used by a threat actor in an ongoing campaign targeting victims worldwide. At the end of June, The Record first reported that the builder for the Babuk Locker ransomware was leaked online allowing threat actors to use it to create their own version of the popular ransomware. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2021
Colombian authorities arrested a Romanian hacker who is wanted in the U.S. for distributing the Gozi virus that already infected more than a million computers. Colombian officials announced the arrest of the Romanian hacker Mihai Ionut Paunescu who is wanted in the U.S. for his key role in the distribution of the Gozi virus that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2021
The REvil ransomware operators added a Linux encryptor to their arsenal to encrypt Vmware ESXi virtual machines. The REvil ransomware operators are now using a Linux encryptor to encrypts Vmware ESXi virtual machines which are widely adopted by enterprises. The availability of the Linux encryptor was announced by the REvil gang in May, a circumstance […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2021
Researchers analyzed a recently discovered threat, the Lorenz ransomware, and developed a free decryptor for the victims of this new operation. The Lorenz ransomware gang has been active since April and hit multiple organizations worldwide demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransoms to the victims. Like other ransomware gangs, Lorenz operators also implement double-extortion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2021
Microsoft is investigating an strange attack, threat actor used a driver signed by the company, the Netfilter Driver, to implant a Rootkit. Microsoft announced it is investigating a threat actor distributing malicious drivers in attacks aimed at the gaming industry in China. The actor submitted drivers that were built by a third party for certification […]
