Articles by Alessandro Mascellino
North Korea's WaterPlum group, commonly referred to as Contagious Interview, has infected at least 30,000 devices in more than 100 countries and taken funds or credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurreя┐╜...
A new mobile spyware operation known as ZeroDayRAT has been documented targeting both Android and iOS devices.
The cross-platform tool provides attackers with persistent access to personal communicaя┐╜...
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published an initial list of hardware and software product categories that support or are expected to support post-quantum cryptograя┐╜...
A ransomware operation known as DeadLock has been observed abusing Polygon blockchain smart contracts to manage and rotate proxy server addresses.
DeadLock first appeared in July 2025 and has maintaя┐╜...
A botnet known as GoBruteforcer has been actively targeting Linux servers exposed to the internet, using large-scale brute-force attacks against common services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL and phpя┐╜...
A former cryptocurrency hacker convicted over the 2016 Bitfinex exchange breach has been released from prison earlier than expected, according to public statements and federal records.
Ilya Lichtensя┐╜...
Federal regulators have filed charges against several purported crypto asset trading platforms and investment clubs accused of defrauding US retail investors of more than $14m through an elaborate inя┐╜...
A newly observed variant of the BeaverTail malware has been tied to┬аhackers associated with North Korea.
The findings come from DarktraceтАЩs latest The State of Cybersecurity report, which links Be...
A new phishing campaign delivering the Phantom information-stealing malware through a multi-stage attachment chain has been identified by cybersecurity researchers.
The activity, observed by Seqriteя┐╜...
A new pair of malicious Visual Studio Code extensions capable of harvesting screenshots, browser sessions and stored credentials has been discovered by cybersecurity researchers.
The extensions, Bitя┐╜...