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Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2019
SimJacker attack allows hacking any phone with just an SMS

SimJacker is a critical vulnerability in SIM cards that could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise any phones just by sending an SMS. Cybersecurity researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security disclosed a critical vulnerability in SIM cards dubbed SimJacker that could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise targeted mobile phones and spy on victims just […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2019
SAP September 2019 Security Patch Day addresses four Security Notes rated as Hot News

SAP released the September 2019 Security Patch that addressed four Security Notes rated as Hot News by the company. SAP released the September 2019 Security Patch that addressed four Security Notes rated as Hot News by the company, but only one of them is new. SAP released 16 new or updated Security Notes, the overall […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2019
LokiBot info stealer involved in a targeted attack on a US Company

Security researchers at Fortinet uncovered a malspam campaign aimed distributing the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company. FortiGuard SE Team experts uncovered a malspam campaign aimed distributing the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company. The Lokibot malware has been active since 2015, it is an infostealer that was involved in many malspam campaigns aimed […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2019
NetCAT attack allows hackers to steal sensitive data from Intel CPUs

Experts discovered a flaw dubbed NetCAT (Network Cache ATtack) that affects all Intel server-grade processors and allows to sniff sensitive data over the network. Researchers from VUSec group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have discovered a new vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote attacker to sniff sensitive details by mounting a side-channel attack over the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2019
The Wolcott school district suffered a second ransomware attack in 4 months

Another ransomware attack hits a school district, the victim is an institute in Connecticut that was targeted twice in only four months. For the second time in just four months, another the Wolcott school district in Connecticut was a victim of a ransomware attack. Techers and students were not able to access the district’s internal […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2019
Dissecting the 10k Lines of the new TrickBot Dropper

Malware researchers at Yoroi-Cybaze analyzed the TrickBot dropper, a threat that has infected victims since 2016. Introduction TrickBot it is one of the best known Banking Trojan which has been infecting victims since 2016, it is considered a cyber-crime tool. But nowadays defining it a “Banking Trojan” is quite reductive: during the last years its modularity brought […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2019
Some models of Comba and D-Link WiFi routers leak admin credentials

Security experts have discovered that some models of D-Link and Comba WiFi routers leak their administrative login credentials in plaintext. Security researchers from Trustwave’s SpiderLabs have discovered several credential leaking vulnerabilities in some models of D-Link and Comba Telecom. The researcher Simon Kenin from SpiderLabs discovered five credential leaking vulnerabilities, three of them affect some […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2019
Adobe September 2019 Patch Tuesday updates fix 2 code execution flaws in Flash Player

Adobe September 2019 Patch Tuesday updates address two code execution bugs in Flash Player and a DLL hijacking flaw in Application Manager. Adobe has released September 2019 Patch Tuesday updates that address two code execution vulnerabilities in Flash Player and a DLL hijacking flaw in Application Manager. The two flaws addressed with the Flash Player 32.0.0.255 release […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2019
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2019 fix 2 privilege escalation flaws exploited in attacks

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2019 address 80 flaws, including two privilege escalation issues exploited in attacks. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2019 address 80 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws that have been exploited in attacks in the wild. The updates cover Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, ChakraCore, Office and Microsoft Office […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2019
Million of Telestar Digital GmbH IoT radio devices can be remotely hacked

A security researcher disclosed zero-day flaws in Telestar Digital GmbH IoT radio devices that could be exploited by remote attackers to hijack systems without any user interaction. The security researcher Benjamin Kunz from Vulnerability-Lab disclosed zero-day flaws in Telestar Digital GmbH IoT radio devices that could be exploited by remote attackers to hijack devices without any user […]