Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2020
Microsoft researchers reported that Iranian cyber espionage group MuddyWater is exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability in attacks in the wild. Microsoft published a post and a series of tweets to warn of cyber attacks exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability carried out by the Iran-linked APT group known as MuddyWater, aka Mercury. The Zerologon vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1472, is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2020
A China-linked threat actor used UEFI malware based on code from Hacking Team in attacks aimed at organizations with an interest in North Korea. Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted a UEFI malware that was involved in attacks on organizations with an interest in North Korea. The experts were investigating several suspicious UEFI firmware images when discovered four […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2020
Researchers disclosed details of security flaws in popular antivirus software that could allow threat actors to increase privileges. Security researchers from CyberArk Labs disclosed details of security vulnerabilities found in popular antivirus software that could be exploited by attackers to elevate their privileges on the target system. Antivirus solutions that are supposed to protect the systems from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2020
Cybernews has found an exposed data bucket that belongs to the Australian news sharing platform Snewpit containing around 80,000 user records. Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/australian-social-news-platform-leaks-80000-user-records/ To increase efforts to secure user data, Snewpit will be reviewing âall server logs and access control settingsâ to confirm that no unauthorized access took place and to ensure that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2020
Threat actors have hacked at least three Swiss universities, including the University of Basel and managed to drain employee salary transfers. Threat actors have managed to steal employee salary payments at several Swiss universities, including the University of Basel. âAccording to our information, several universities in Switzerland have been affected,â explained Martina Weiss, Secretary General of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2020
U.S. DoD and the DHS CISA agency published a malware analysis report for a new malware variant tracked as SLOTHFULMEDIA The U.S. Department of Defenseâs Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) and the Department of Homeland Securityâs Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have published a malware analysis report that provides technical details of a new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2020
Security researchers provided technical details about an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint that has been exploiting two zero-days in Tenda routers Security researchers at Netlab, the network security division Qihoo 360, have published a report that details an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint. The experts are monitoring the Mirai-based botnet since November 2019 and observed it exploiting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2020
Visa revealed that two unnamed North American hospitality merchants have been infected with some strains of point-of-sale (POS) malware. US payments processor Visa revealed that two North American hospitality merchants have been hacked, threat actors infected the systems of the two unnamed organizations with some strains of point-of-sale (POS) malware. According to a security alert […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2020
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Apple addresses four vulnerabilities in macOS Google removes 17 Joker -infected apps from the Play Store Microsoft took down 18 Azure AD apps used by Chinese Gadolinium APT Mount Locker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2020
HP published details of three vulnerabilities in the HP Device Manager that could be exploited by attackers to take over Windows systems. HP released a security advisory that includes details for three critical and high severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-6925, CVE-2020-6926, and CVE-2020-6927, that impact the HP Device Manager. The IT giant revealed that an attacker could […]
