Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2020
Canon finally confirmed that it has suffered a ransomware attack in early August that resulted in the theft of data from its servers. Canon has finally confirmed that it was the victim of a ransomware attack in early August and that the threat actors also stole data from its servers. In August, BleepingComputer first revealed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2020
Ritzau, the biggest Danish news agency, was hit by a ransomware attack that brought it offline but refused to pay the ransom. Ritzau, the biggest Danish news agency, was hit by a ransomware attack that brought it offline. The cyber attack hit a quarter of Ritzau âs 100 servers that have been damaged. The agency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2020
Security expert Tolijan Trajanovski analyzed an SSH-backdoor Botnet that implements an interesting âResearchâ infection technique. In a recent tweet, the malware researcher @0xrb shared a list containing URLs of recently captured IoT botnet samples. Among the links, there was an uncommon example, a URL behind a Discord CDN, which as pointed by the IoT malware researcher @_lubiedo, may be difficult […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2020
Researchers spotted a new mobile malware dubbed WAPDropper that subscribes users to legitimate premium-rate services. Security researchers from Check Point have spotted a new malware family dubbed WAPDropper that targets mobile phone users to subscribe them to legitimate premium-rate services. Check Point experts observed the WAPDropper subscribing unaware users to premium services from legitimate telecommunications […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2020
Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has presented its annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report. In the report, the company examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year. The most severe financial damage has occurred as a result of ransomware activity. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2020
Two Baidu Android apps have been removed from the Google Play Store in October after they’ve been caught collecting sensitive user details. Two apps belonging to Chinese tech giant Baidu, Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box, have been removed from the Google Play Store at the end of October after they’ve been caught collecting sensitive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2020
Researchers spotted a new variant of an adware and coin-miner botnet operated by Stantinko threat actors that now targets Linux servers. Researchers from Intezer have spotted a new variant of an adware and coin-miner botnet that is operated by Stantinko threat actors since 2012. The Stantinko botnet was first spotted by ESET in 2017, at the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2020
Following the recent takedown, the TrickBot operators have implemented various improvements to make it more resilient. In October, Microsoftâs Defender team, FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumenâs Black Lotus Labs, NTT, and Broadcomâs cyber-security division Symantec joined the forces and announced a coordinated effort to take down the command and control infrastructure of the infamous TrickBot botnet. Even if Microsoft and its partners have brought down the TrickBot […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2020
The U.S. FBI is warning private industry partners of a surge in Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert (MU-000140-MW) to warn private industry partners of an increase of the Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2020
Sonatypeâs deep dive research allowed to identify a new family of Discord malware called CursedGrabber. Sonatype has discovered more malware in the npm registry which, following our analysis and multiple cyber threat intelligence reports, has led to the discovery of a novel and large scale malware campaign leveraging the open-source ecosystem. The malware called âxpc.jsâ […]
