Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2019
The APT24 group continues its cyber espionage activity, its members were posing as a researcher from Cambridge to infect victims with three new malware. Experts at FireEye have uncovered a new espionage campaign carried out by APT34 APT group (OilRig, and HelixKitten. Greenbug) through LinkedIn. Members of the cyberespionage group were posing as a researcher from Cambridge […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! For nearly a year, Brazilian users have been targeted with router attacks NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2019
Experts at AT&T’s Alien Labs recently discovered an ongoing campaign conducted by StrongPity threat actor that abuses malicious WinBox installers to infect victims. AT&T’s Alien Labs experts recently discovered an ongoing campaign conducted by StrongPity APT group that abuses malicious WinBox installers to infect victims. The activity of the group was initially uncovered in 2016 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2019
Kaspersky researchers revealed that since earlier this year, Russia-linked APT group Turla used new variants of the KopiLuwak Trojan in targeted attacks. Security experts at Kaspersky revealed that the Russia-linked APT group Turla used new variants of the KopiLuwak Trojan in targeted attacks since early 2019. The Turla APT group (aka Snake, Uroburos, Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) has been active since at least 2007 targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2019
The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws actively exploited in the wild. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1132, affects the Win32k component and could be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2019
The malware samples shared by USCYBERCOM last week were first detected in December 2016 in attacks attributed to Iran-linked APT33. Last week the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) uploaded to VirusTotal a malware used by Iran-linked APT33 group in attacks in Dec 2016 and Jan 2017. Now experts at Kaspersky confirmed that the malware was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2019
Croatia government agencies have been targeted by unknown hackers with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. A mysterious group of hackers carried out a series of cyber attacks against Croatian government agencies, infecting employees with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2019
Group-IB believes Silence APT, the Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang, is likely to be behind the attack on Dutch Bangla Bank’s ATMs resulting in the theft of $3M, Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has established that Silence APT, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group is likely to be behind the brazen attack on Dutch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2019
US Cyber Command posted on Twitter an alert about cyber attacks exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 vulnerability in Outlook. Yesterday I was using Twitter when I noticed the following alert issued by the account managed by the US Cyber Command: The alert refers to an ongoing activity aimed at infecting government networks by exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 Outlook […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2019
Security experts spotted a news wave of attacks carried out by the OceanLotus APT group that involved the new Ratsnif Trojan. Experts at the security firm Cylance detected a new RAT dubbed Ratsnif that was used in cyber espionage operations conducted by the OceanLotus APT group. The OceanLotus APT group, also known as APT32 or Cobalt Kitty, is state-sponsored group that […]
