The threat actor behind the Triton malware (aka Trisis, Xenotime, and HatMan) is now targeting organizations worldwide and safety systems. The attackers are expanding their targets and new variants are able to attacks also other than Schneider Electric’s Triconex systems. The malware was first spotted in December 2017 by researchers at FireEye that discovered that it was specifically designed to […]
The Justice Department announced an effort to disrupt the VPNFilter botnet of hundreds of thousands of infected home and office (SOHO) routers and other networked devices under the control of a Russia-linked APT group. Yesterday Talos and other security firm revealed the discovery of a huge botnet tracked as VPNFilter composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and […]
Security experts from Kaspersky have discovered a backdoor account and other three vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-620 Routers. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a backdoor account (CVE-2018-6213) in the firmware of D-Link DIR-620 routers that could be exploited by attackers to access to the device’s web panel and take over devices exposed online. “The latest […]
Security firm Talos along with other cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have uncovered a huge botnet dubbed VPNFilter, composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The experts believe the VPNFilter was developed by Russia and the associated malware appears to be very sophisticated, at the time they discovered more than 500,000 compromised devices across […]
Security experts from ESET observed the Turla APT group leveraging for the first time the Metasploit framework in the Mosquito campaign The Russia-linked Turla APT group continues its cyber espionage campaigns shifting towards more generic tools to remain under the radar. Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as […]
Home Wi-Fi networks in the UK using Super Router provided by TalkTalk ISP are affected by a vulnerability that exposes them to cyber attacks. Security researchers at software house IndigoFuzz have discovered a security flaw in the implementation of the WPS feature of the TalkTalk Super Router that can be exploited to compromise to steal […]
A team of security researchers from Chinese firm Tencent has discovered 14 security vulnerabilities in several BMW models. Researchers from the Tencent Keen Security Lab have discovered 14 vulnerabilities affecting several BMW models, including BMW i Series, BMW X Series, BMW 3 Series, BMW 5 Series, and BMW 7 Series. The team of experts conducted a […]
Experts from Chinese jailbreakers Pangu Lab, have recently discovered the ZipperDown flaw that could affect roughly 10% of iOS Apps. ZipperDown, is a recently discovered vulnerability that could affect thousands of iOS apps and maybe also Android users. The ZipperDown flaw was first reported by experts from Chinese jailbreakers Pangu Lab, that described it as described as a programming error. The experts estimate […]
A North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Sun Team has targeted North Korean deflectors with a malicious app that was published in the official Google Play store. A North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Sun Team has targeted North Korean deflectors with a malicious app that was published in the official Google Play store. The campaign, named RedDawn by security experts at […]
Yesterday AMD, ARM, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech firms released updates, mitigations and published security advisories for two new variants of Meltdown and Spectre attacks. Spectre and Meltdown made the headlines again, a few days after the disclosure of a new attack technique that allowed a group of researchers to recover data from the System […]