Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2017
According to a new research published by the nonprofit DCA, millions of stolen US University email credentials are available for sale on the Dark Web. According to a new research published by the nonprofit Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) that searched the Dark Web for credentials from the top 300 US universities, millions of stolen email […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2017
The source code for a new banking Trojan dubbed Nuclear Bot was leaked online, experts speculate a rapid diffusion of the threat in the wild. The source code for a new banking Trojan, dubbed Nuclear Bot, is available for sale in the cyber criminal underground.The Nuclear Bot banking Trojan first appeared in the cybercrime forums […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2017
According to security experts at Imperva, a newly discovered variant of the Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour DDoS attack. According to security experts at Imperva, a newly discovered variant of the dreaded Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The new variant of the Mirai […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2017
Millions of websites are affected by a buffer overflow zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-7269, that resides in the IIS 6.0. The II6 6.0 zero-day flaw was discovered by two researchers with the Information Security Lab & School of Computer Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology Guangzhou, China who published a PoC code exploit on GitHub. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2017
The Google hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered a third flaw in LastPass password manager in a few weeks, the expert provided a few details about the issue. A couple of weeks ago, the notorious Google Project Zero hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered numerous vulnerabilities in the Chrome and Firefox extensions of the LastPass password manager. Wrote a quick exploit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2017
The report shows a disconcerting reality, the number of targeted attacks on the ICSs deployed in the Industrial sector continues to increase. The Kaspersky Lab’s ICS-CERT has published a report on the threat landscape for industrial automation systems (ICSs) related to second half of 2016. The report shows a disconcerting reality, the number of targeted attacks on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2017
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have determined that the Shamoon 2 malware uses a rudimentary technique for network distribution. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks continue to analyze the dreaded Shamoon 2 malware and the recent waves of attacks, now they have determined that the threat uses a rudimentary technique for network distribution. The Shamoon 2 malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2017
The Cyber Division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the companies in the healthcare industry of FTP attacks. The Cyber Division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the healthcare industry that malicious actors are actively targeting File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers of medical and dental facilities that allow anonymous […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2017
Thousands of users of the Microsoft searchable Docs.com service have inadvertently exposed passwords and other private information on the Internet. Bad news for thousands of users of the Microsoft searchable Docs.com service who have inadvertently exposed passwords and other private information on the Internet. The Docs.com service allows people to easily exchange documents, it implements a useful […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2017
Experts at FireEye discovered the APT29 group adopted domain fronting long before these techniques were widely known in the IT security community. Security firm FireEye continues to follow APT29 group (aka The Dukes, Cozy Bear and Cozy Duke), on Monday it revealed that the cyber spies have been using a technique called “domain fronting” to make hard […]
