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Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2019
SEC Xtractor – Experts released an open-source hardware analysis tool

Security and consulting company SEC Consult announced the release of an open-source hardware analysis tool dubbed SEC Xtractor Security firm SEC Consult announced the release of an open-source hardware analysis tool dubbed SEC Xtractor. The tool was initially designed for internal use, and was then adopted for several research projects over the years. The tool […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 243

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Data of 21 million Mixcloud users available for sale on the dark web Google warned 12K+ users targeted by state-sponsored hackers Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil hacked Clop Ransomware attempts to disable Windows Defender and Malwarebytes Europol […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2019
US authorities charged Dridex gang members for stealing over $100 Million

US DoJ charged two Russian citizens for deploying the Dridex malware and for their involvement in international bank fraud and computer hacking schemes. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged Russian citizens Maksim V. (32) and Igor Turashev (38) for distributing the infamous Dridex banking Trojan, and for their involvement in international bank fraud […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2019
Vietnam-linked Ocean Lotus hacked BMW and Hyundai networks

Alleged Vietnamese Ocean Lotus (APT32) hackers breached the networks of the car manufacturers BMW and Hyundai to steal automotive trade secrets. According to German media, hackers suspected to be members of the Vietnam-linked APT Ocean Lotus (APT32) group breached the networks of the car manufacturers BMW and Hyundai. The intrusion aimed at stealing automotive trade […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2019
VMware addresses ESXi issue disclosed at the Tianfu Cup hacking competition

VMware has addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in ESXi that was disclosed recently at the Tianfu Cup hacking competition. This week VMware has released security updates that fix a critical remote code execution vulnerability in ESXi that was recently disclosed by white hat hackers at the Tianfu Cup hacking competition in China. The Tianfu […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2019
CVE-2019-14899 flaw allows hijacking VPN connections on Linux, Unix systems

Researchers discovered a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-14899 that can be exploited to hijack active TCP connections in a VPN tunnel Researchers from the University of New Mexico have discovered a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-14899, that can be exploited by an attacker to determine if a user is connected to a VPN and hijack active TCP […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2019
OpenBSD addresses authentication bypass, privilege escalation issues

Experts from Qualys Research Labs discovered four high-severity security flaws in OpenBSD, one of which is a type authentication bypass issue. Researchers from Qualys Research Labs discovered four high-severity security vulnerabilities in OpenBSD, a type authentication bypass issue and three privilege escalation bugs. The three issued could be exploited by local users or malware to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2019
China used the Great Cannon DDoS Tool against forum used by Hong Kong protestors

China is accused to have used the “Great Cannon” DDoS tool to launch attacks against LIHKG, a forum used by Hong Kong residents to organize protests. The Great Cannon Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tool was used again by the Chinese government, this time it was used to target the LIHKG forum used by Hong Kong protesters to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2019
CyrusOne, one of the major US data center provider, hit by ransomware attack

Ransomware attacks continue to threaten organizations worldwide, CyrusOne, one of the biggest data center providers in the US, is facing with an infection. A new ransomware attack made the headlines, systems at CyrusOne, one of the biggest data center providers in the US, were infected by the malware. The company reported the incident to law […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2019
The evolutions of APT28 attacks

Analyzing how tactics, techniques and procedures of the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group evolve over the time. APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). It is also known as Sofacy Group (by Kaspersky) or STRONTIUM (by Microsoft) and it’s used to target Aereospace, Defence, Governmente Agencies, International […]