Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2017
Security researchers at Proofpoint spotted a cyber espionage campaign conducted by a group previously linked to China. The hackers have been using a recently patched .NET vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8759, in attacks aimed at organizations in the United States. “Proofpoint researchers are tracking an espionage actor targeting organizations and high-value targets in defense and government. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2017
Oracle released the October 2017 Critical Patch Update (CPU) that addresses a total of 252 security vulnerabilities that affect multiple products. Most of the vulnerabilities fixed by Oracle could be remotely exploitable without authentication. This is the last Oracle Critical Patch Update of 2017, this year the tech giant already resolved 1119 vulnerabilities, or 22% […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2017
Google continues working to improve the security of its users, the last measure introduced by the company it the ‘Advanced Protection’ feature. The Advanced Protection feature was designed to improve the security of users, who are at high risk of targeted attacks. “We took this unusual step because there is an overlooked minority of our users that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2017
South Africa – About 30-million identity numbers and other personal and financial information leaked online, it is the largest data leak in the country. About 30-million identity numbers and other personal and financial information had been hacked and leaked online, it could be the biggest data breach suffered by the South Africa. The data breach was discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2017
The Necurs botnet is spreading a new downloader that takes screenshots of the victimsâ desktops and Runtime Errors back to the operators. The Necurs botnet is back once again, the dreaded botnet was spreading a downloader that takes screenshots of the victimsâ desktops and Runtime Errors back to the attackers. “Recently we have seen a resurgence of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2017
Researchers at BAE Systems investigated the recent cyber-heist that targeted a bank in Taiwan and linked the action to the notorious Lazarus APT group. The activity of the Lazarus APT Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2017
Hacking ATM could be very easy thanks to the availability of the CUTLET MAKER ATM malware on an underground hacking forum. Wannabe crooks can buy an ATM malware on a Darknet market for around $5000, the discovery was made by researchers at Kaspersky Lab that noticed a forum post advertising the malicious code dubbed Cutlet Maker. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2017
ROCA vulnerability (CVE-2017-15361) allows attackers to recover users Private RSA Keys, billion devices potentially impacted. While security experts are discussing the dreaded KRACK attack against WiFi networks IT giants, including Fujitsu, Google, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft are warning their customers of a severe flaw in widely used RSA cryptographic library produced by German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies. The vulnerability, tracked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2017
Another day, another news about a clamorous data breach, this time the Reuters agency revealed that Microsoft suffered a major security breach back in 2013. According to five former employees, hackers broke into the company vulnerabilities and bug reports database, but the news was never disclosed. The former employees explained that Microsoft addressed all the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2017
Even with the most advanced email protections in place and an entire government organization to support them, the bad actors were able to spoof Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) emails to spread a Java-based remote administration tool to unsuspecting UK recipients. In September 2017, Trustwave identified a scam campaign that pretended to come from HMRC. The […]
