New attack by Anonymous Italy: personal data from ministries and police have been released online. The site of Fratelli d’Italia, a post-fascist party, has been defaced The iconoclastic fury of Italian Anonymous does not stop. As announced, the three groups that coordinate the operation “Black Week” have released also today new […]
World Cyber News
Iran hit by a more aggressive and sophisticated Stuxnet version
Iran’s strategic network was hit by a new destructive and sophisticated version of the Stuxnet cyber weapon, the Hadashot TV reports. According to the Hadashot TV, Iran’s strategic network was hit by a destructive malware-based attack hours after Israel revealed the Mossad had thwarted an Iranian murder plot in Denmark, and days after Iran’s […]
Emotet Awakens With New Campaign of Mass Email Exfiltration
The Emotet malware family just raised the stakes by adding email exfiltration to its arsenal, thereby escalating its capabilities to cyber espionage. While it has recently made headlines for delivering ransomware payloads to United States infrastructure such as Water Utilities, Emotet has laid mostly dormant for the past month. In […]
SamSam: Targeted Ransomware Attacks Continue
Ransomware group remains highly active in 2018, focussing mainly on organizations in the U.S. The group behind the SamSam ransomware (Ransom.SamSam) has continued to mount attacks against entire organizations during 2018, with fresh attacks seen against 67 different targets, mostly located in the U.S. SamSam specializes in targeted ransomware attacks, […]
New FilesLocker Ransomware Offered as a Ransomware as a Service
A new ransomware called FilesLocker is being distributed as a Ransomware as a Service, or RaaS, that targets Chinese and English speaking victims. This ransomware was first spotted by MalwareHunterTeam who posted about it on Twitter. At the time, it looked like your standard small little C# ransomware with little or no distribution. It turns […]
Lancement des guichets automatiques 30 Crypto en Inde – Unocoin dévoile une solution à l’interdiction bancaire de RBI
Unocoin, un important centre de cryptographie en Inde, a officiellement annoncé le lancement de ses guichets automatiques cryptographiques. Le PDG Sathvik Vishwanath a déclaré à news.Bitcoin.com que, Initialement, la société prévoit de déployer des machines 30 dans trois villes indiennes. «Ces guichets automatiques aident les gens à encaisser et à encaisser […]
IBM and banks back data project to fight human trafficking
Western Union, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group are backing a new project that uses IBM’s Watson technology to tap into financial data to help track and combat human trafficking. Despite an increased awareness of human trafficking, efforts to manually track and counter the issue through legislation, preventative measures and enforcement, […]
GreyEnergy cyberespionage group targets Poland and Ukraine
Security researchers from ESET published a detailed analysis of a recently discovered cyber espionage group tracked as GreyEnergy. Security experts from ESET published a detailed analysis of a recently discovered threat actor tracked as GreyEnergy, its activity emerged in concurrence with BlackEnergy operations. ESET researchers have spotted a new strain of malware […]
Attackers behind Operation Oceansalt reuse code from Chinese Comment Crew
Security researchers from McAfee have recently uncovered a cyber espionage campaign, tracked as Operation Oceansalt, targeting South Korea, the United States, and Canada. The threat actors behind Operation Oceansalt are reusing malware previously associated with China-linked cyberespionage group APT1. “McAfee Advanced Threat Research and Anti-Malware Operations teams have discovered another unknown data reconnaissance implant targeting Korean-speaking users.” reads […]
MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry
Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. Today I’d like to share an interesting analysis of a Targeted Attack found and dissected by Yoroi (technical details are available here). The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field […]