Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. A new Mac malware dubbed Tarmac has been distributed via […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2019
The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. It’s official, the US strategic command has announced that it has replaced the 8-inch floppy disks in an ancient computer to receive nuclear launch orders from the President with a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2019
Threat actors leverage malicious plugins that hide in plain sight to backdoor WordPress websites and to use them for brute-forcing other sites. The use of fake WordPress plugins installed by hackers is not a novelty, recently at Sucuri observed multiple infections aimed at installing fake plugins with backdoor capabilities. Attackers use automated tools to create malicious WordPress […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2019
A researcher discovered a critical Linux vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-17666, that could be exploited to fully compromise vulnerable machines. Nico Waisman, principal security engineer at Github, discovered a critical Linux flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-17666, that could be exploited by attackers to fully compromise vulnerable machines. The vulnerability affects Linux versions through 5.3.6, according to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2019
Over 600 million UC Browser and UC Browser Mini Android users have been exposed to man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks. More than 600 million users of the popular UC Browser and UC Browser Mini Android apps have been exposed to man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks by downloading an Android Package Kit (APK) from a third party server over unprotected channels. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2019
Emsisoft firm has released a new free decryption tool the STOP (Djvu) ransomware, in the last months the research team helped victims of many other threats. STOP (Djvu) ransomware has 160 variants that infected more hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide. Experts estimated a total number of 460,000 victims, that makes this threat the most […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2019
The US ingredient provider Ingredion Incorporated announced that it has recently detected suspicious activity associated with a malware attack. The US ingredient provider Ingredion Incorporated revealed to have detected an ongoing malware attack after its experts noticed a suspicious activity this week. Ingredion has hired third-party experts to help its staff in investigating the incident […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2019
A tainted version of the Tor Browser is targeting dark web market shoppers to steal their cryptocurrency and gather information on their browsing activity. A Trojanized version of the Tor Browser is targeting shoppers of black marketplaces in the dark web, threat actors aim to steal their cryptocurrency and gather information on their browsing activity. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2019
Security firm revealed that China-linked APT group Turbine Panda conducted cyber-espionage operations aimed at various aerospace firms for years. Security researchers at Crowdstrike conducted long-running cyber-espionage operations aimed at various aerospace firms. According to the experts the cyber espionage operations begun in January 2010, after the state-owned enterprise Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) selected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2019
The global shipping and mailing services company Pitney Bowes revealed that the recent partial outage was caused by the Ryuk ransomware. The global shipping and mailing services company Pitney Bowes recently suffered a partial outage of its service caused by a ransomware attack. Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the […]
