Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2018
The hosting company Domainfactory has taken down its forums after hackers posted messages claiming to have breached into its infrastructure. While I was writing about the Timehope security breach, another incident is making the headlines, the victim is the German hosting company Domainfactory. The hosting company, that was owned by GoDaddy since 2016, has taken […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2018
An expert found evidences that demonstrate the current distributed LokiBot malware samples were “hijacked” by a third actor. According to the researcher who goes online by the Twitter handle “d00rt,” samples of the LokiBot malware samples being distributed in the wild are modified versions of the original sample. I just released an article where are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · Data Broker Exactis data breach, one of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2018
The HNS IoT botnet (Hide and Seek) originally discovered by BitDefender in January evolves and now targets cross-platform database solutions. Do you remember the Hide ‘N Seek (HNS) botnet? The IoT botnet Hide ‘N Seek botnet appeared in the threat landscape in January, when it was first spotted on January 10th by malware researchers from Bitdefender. It was first discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2018
Ex-employee at the surveillance firm NSO Group has been arrested and charged with stealing phone hacking tools from the company and attempting to sell it. A former employee of one of the most popular surveillance firm, NSO Group, has been arrested and charged with stealing phone hacking tools from the company and attempting to sell […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2018
Recently experts from Talos security spotted a malware campaign leveraging Smoke Loader to steal credentials from a broad range of applications. Security experts have discovered a new malware campaign leveraging Smoke Loader to steal credentials from web browsers, email clients, and other popular applications. The attack chain starts with messages using a weaponized Word document […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2018
A new variant of the infamous GandCrab ransomware V4 was released during the weekend, experts shared details of the threat, A new version of the dreaded GandCrab ransomware (V4) was released during the weekend and according to the experts it included numerous changes. New #GandCrab version "V4" GANDCRAB V4 Ransomware – Remove and Restore .KRAB […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2018
The maintainers of the Trezor multi-cryptocurrency wallet service reported a phishing attack against some of its users that occurred during the weekend. I had some issues yesterday, when accessing your site. It seems to be related with DNS. Is https://t.co/wGje8x5lRN legit? — Carsten 🇹🇭 ⚡ (@CarstenBKK) July 1, 2018 The attack appears more complex respect […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · A hacker devised a method to unlock […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2018
Typeform, the popular online survey platform, has suffered a data breach that exposed partial data of some users, no payment card data was stolen. Typeform, the popular online survey platform, is the last victim of a data breach. Typeform software is widely adopted by businesses worldwide to easily arrange surveys, it allows easy creation of […]
