Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2021
A new Trojan written in the Go programming language, tracked as ChaChi, was involved in ransomware attacks against government agencies and US schools. Researchers from BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence spotted a new RAT written in the Go programming language, dubbed ChaChi, which has been used by PYSA (aka Mespinoza) operators to target victims globally. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2021
The LV ransomware operators repurposed a REvil binary to create their own strain and launch a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). A threat actor known as LV ransomware gang is trying to enter the cybercrime arena, it repurposed a REvil binary almost to create their own strain and launch a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). The Sodinokibi/REvil is one of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2021
A week after the law enforcement operation that targeted the Clop ransomware operators, the gang is back into action. A week after the international operation conducted by law enforcement that targeted several members of the Clop ransomware gang, the group is back into action. Last week, Ukraine police arrested multiple individuals that are believed to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2021
Belgium city of Liege has suffered today a ransomware attack that has disrupted the IT network of the municipality and its online services. Liege, one of the biggest cities in Belgium, was hit by a ransomware attack that has disrupted the IT network of the municipality and its online services. “The City of Liège is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2021
DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. Researchers from Avast are warning of the rapid growth of the DirtyMoe botnet (PurpleFox, Perkiler, and NuggetPhantom), which passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2021
Boffins developed a tool dubbed DroidMorph that provides morphing of Android applications (APKs) and allows to create Android apps (malware/benign) clones. A group of researchers from Adana Science and Technology University (Turkey) and the National University of Science and Technology (Islamabad, Pakistan) has developed a tool dubbed DroidMorph that provides morphing of Android applications (APKs) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2021
The Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA was hit by the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang that also published more than 700GB of stolen data. The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has published on its leak sites more than 700GB of data stolen from Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA. The group published the link […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2021
This strange malware stops you from visiting pirate websites Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from being able to visit a large number of piracy websites. Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from visiting a large number of websites dedicated to software piracy by modifying the HOSTS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2021
TA402 APT group (aka Molerats and GazaHackerTeam) is back after two-month of silence and is targeting governments in the Middle East. The TA402 APT group (aka Molerats and Gaza Cybergang) is back after a two-month of apparent inactivity, it is targeting government institutions in the Middle East and global government entities with interest in the region. MoleRATs is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2021
Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for operating a âcryptingâ service used to obfuscate the Kelihos bot from antivirus software. Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for charges related to the operation of a malware crypting service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware and evade detection. “According to court documents and evidence introduced at trial, Oleg Koshkin, […]
