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Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2016
Exclusive – ELF Linux/NyaDrop, a new IoT threat in the wild

Exclusive: interview made by @unixfreaxjp of MalwareMustDie for Security Affairs about the Linux/NyaDrop. The latest details about this new dangerous IoT malware. After the Krebs DDoS attacks the enrollment of new IoT botnets is going to grow and new large “zombie army” made by of web-ip-cam, DVR/NVR, routers/modems are invading the cyberspace. The evidence of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2016
33 million records exposed after the Evony data breach

The website and the forum of the Evony gaming company were hacked this summer and as a result 33 Million of its gamers have their data compromised. Data of more than 33 million accounts of the Evony gaming company were stolen as result of a data breach occurred in June. Evony is the company that […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2016
SSHowDowN Proxy attacks – A 12-Year-Old SSH bug exposes more than 2M IoT Devices

Akamai Technologies revealed that hackers are exploiting a 12-year-old bug in OpenSSH to hack into millions of IoT devices with SSHowDowN Proxy attacks. IoT devices are a privileged target for hackers, design flaws and wrong configurations open to the attackers. Recently we read about massive DDoS attacks powered by huge botnets powered by hundreds of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2016
Cisco Meeting Server – CVE-2016-6445 flaw allows to impersonate legitimate users

Cisco fixed a critical vulnerability in the Cisco Meeting Server, tracked as CVE-2016-6445,  that allows remote attackers to impersonate legitimate users. A security vulnerability in Cisco Meeting Server, tracked as CVE-2016-6445, could be exploited by attackers to impersonate legitimate users. Experts from Cisco uncovered the vulnerability during a routine security audit of a customer. The hole resides […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2016
SonicWALL Email Security appliance flaws could expose corporate emails

Dell issued the SonicWALL Email Security OS 8.3.2 release to address high severity issues that can be exploited to take control of the appliance. Security researchers at Digital Defense discovered multiple vulnerabilities while assessed the SonicWALL Email Security virtual appliance (Version 8.3.0.6149). According to the experts. The flaws could be exploited by attackers to conduct a wide […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2016
Attackers are exploiting a recently patched high-severity DoS flaw in BIND

Attackers are exploiting a recently patched high-severity DoS flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-2776, in the in the popular DNS software in BIND. Last month a vulnerability in the popular DNS software BIND, tracked as CVE-2016-2776, has been patched. The flaw could be exploited by a remote attacker to trigger a DoS condition using specially crafted DNS packets. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2016
Bitcoin Wallet Blockchain.info went down due to a DNS Hijacking

 Blockchain.info, the world’s most popular Bitcoin wallet and Block Explorer service went down this week due to a DNS Hijacking attack. Crypto-currencies continue to be a privileged target of cyber criminals, Bitcoin wallets and services provided by many companies operating in the industries have been targeted by criminal organizations as never before. Blockchain.info, the world’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2016
Vera Bradley retail chain notifies customers of data breach

The American retail chain Vera Bradley announced that hackers have stolen a yet undetermined number of payment card data from its systems. The American retail chain Vera Bradley is the last victim of a data breach, the company announced that hackers have stolen a yet undetermined number of payment card data. The breaches affected customers […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2016
Experts observed several malvertising campaigns deliver Cerber 4.0

Cerber 4.0 is the latest variant of the Cerber ransomware family that is becoming even more common in the malvertising campaign in the wild. Another variant of the notorious Cerber ransomware, the Cerber 4.0, appeared in the wild delivered by several exploit kits, including RIG, Neutrino, and Magnitude EKs. According to the experts from Trend Micro, the Cerber 4.0 first appeared in October […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2016
DXXD Ransomware, displays legal notice and encrypts files on unmapped network shares

The DXXD ransomware specifically targets servers and is able to encrypt files on network shares even if they haven’t been mapped. Malware continues to evolve, the last threat in order of time that implemented a singular feature is the DXXD ransomware.  The peculiarities of this threat is that it encrypts also file on network shares, even […]