Cybercrime, a “white knight” has put Emotet gang in trouble
The cyber security experts: Someone hacked into the malware's distribution sites and replaced payloads with memes and images. Criminals paused the spamming, but the war is not over.
Cybercrime, new malspam campaign to spread Avaddon
The CSIRT-Italy cyber security experts: A new variant of ransomware is conveyed by the botnet phorpiex (trik). The email text only contains emoticons and a fake zip format photo.
Cybercrime, a new crypto-botnet is targeting european organizations
Yoroi ZLab cyber security experts believe is the work of the “Outlaw Hacking Group”. The malware is a variant of “Shellbot”, with new IRC server and Monero pools.
Cybercrime, there is a new ECHOBOT malware version in the wild
Palo Alto Networks cyber security experts: Latest Mirai variant contains a total of 71 unique exploits, 13 of these vulnerabilities haven’t been previously seen exploited.
Cybercrime, GoldBrute returns and is even more dangerous
CybergON's cyber security experts: malware, a botnet that attacked 1.5 million RDP servers worldwide in June, has new protocols that allow it to attack multiple machines.
Cybercrime, Stantinko botnet adds a cryptomining module
ESET cyber security experts: Before that, it performed click fraud, ad injection, social network fraud and password stealing attacks. It targets Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Cybercrime, new version of GoBrut in the wild: the 3.06
Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab cyber security experts: The GoLand written botnet is more powerful, with new brute forcing modules. Targets are in EMEA region, Italy included, but no Russia.
Cybercrime, Smominru botnet is spreading and it’s stronger
Guardicore Labs cyber security experts: Only in August the malware infected over 90,000 machines worldwide. It exploits brute force and EternalBlue for cryptomining.
Avast cooperates with France and FBI to stop Retadup cryptomining worm
The cyber security experts: The malware controlled over 850,000 computers, mainly in Latin America, to create Monero; but the cybercrime C&C servers were in Paris Region and USA.
Cybercrime, there is a new version of GoBrut botnet in the wild
Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab cyber security experts: It’s compiled for Linux. The malware is targeting hundred of thousand WordPress powered websites, and part of them are related to Italy.