Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2019
On Sunday, the Mexican state-owned oil company PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was infected with the DoppelPaymer ransomware. On Sunday, a piece of the DoppelPaymer ransomware infected systems of the Mexican state-owned oil company PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) taking down part of its network. According to the company, less than 5% of the computers in its network were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2019
The analysis of a malicious email revealed a possible raising interest of the TA505 cybercrime gang in system integrator companies. Introduction During a normal monitoring activity, one of the detection tools hits a suspicious email coming from the validtree.com domain. The domain was protected by a Panama company to hide its real registrant and this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2019
The recently discovered ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) Buran attempts to gain popularity by offering discounted licenses. In May, researchers from McAfeeâs Advanced Threat Research Team discovered a new piece of ransomware named âBuran.â Buran is offered as a RaaS model, but unlike other ransomware families such as REVil, GandCrab the authors take 25% of the income earned […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2019
The Global Cyber Security Center has developed a tool named CERTrating to evaluate the Maturity Level of CERTs and services provided to the Constituency Cyber-attacks that have occurred in recent years have fully confirmed that Cybersecurity is an increasingly complex challenge that represents a priority for all companies both in terms of development and investments. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2019
The Australian Signals Directorateâs Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns businesses and netizens of Emotet and BlueKeep attacks in the wild. The ACSC is warning organizations and people of a wave of cyberattacks exploiting the Windows BlueKeep vulnerability to deliver crypto-currency miners. “The Australian Signals Directorateâs Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), with its state and territory partners, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2019
Another day, another victim of a ransomware attack, this time major ASP.NET hosting provider SmarterASP announced it was infected by ransomware. SmarterASP.NET is one of the most popular ASP.NET hosting providers, the company has more than 440,000 customers. SmarterASP announced it was hit yesterday by ransomware attack. The attack encrypted customer data and the company’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Controversial law entered into effect in Russia this week First Cyber Attack âMass Exploiting BlueKeep RDP Flaw Spotted in the Wild New Gafgyt botnet targets Gaming Servers Everis and Spains radio network Cadena SER hit by ransomware Exclusive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2019
Ransomware attacks made the lines again, victims are the leading action sports company Boardriders and its subsidiaries including QuikSilver and Billabong. Systems at the action sports company Boardriders was hit by a ransomware attack, the incident also impacted some of its subsidiaries, including QuikSilver and Billabong. In response to the infection, the company shut down its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2019
Kaspersky researchers have found a new advanced backdoor used by the Platinum advanced persistent threat (APT) group in attacks in the wild. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new backdoor, tracked as Titanium, that was used by the Platinum APT group in attacks in the wild, the malicious code implements sophisticated evasion techniques. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2019
Microsoft is warning once again of more BlueKeep attacks that could deliver disruptive payloads and urges organizations to patch their systems. Recently, researchers warned of the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit, the attack aimed at installing a cryptocurrency miner on the infected systems. The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being […]
