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Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2019
CVE-2019-10149: “Return of the WiZard” Vulnerability: Crooks Start Hitting

Malware researchers at Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB observed many attack attempts trying to spread malware abusing the CVE-2019-10149 issue. Introduction In the past days, a really important issue has been disclosed to the public: “Return of the WiZard” vulnerability (ref. EW N030619, CVE-2019-10149). Such vulnerability affected a wide range of Exim servers, one of the main email server […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2019
WeTransfer incident: file transfer emails were sent to unintended email addresses

Problems for the popular file transfer service WeTransfer, its staff discovered that some file transfer emails were sent to the wrong people. WeTransfer, the popular file transfer service, issued a security notice to inform users that file transfer emails were sent to unintended email addresses on June 16 and 17. In response to the incident, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2019
OpenSSH introduces a security feature to prevent Side-Channel Attacks

OpenSSH introduces a new feature to prevent Side-Channel attacks, latest release encrypts secret keys in memory as temporary solution. Memory side-channel vulnerabilities continue to threaten modern processors, Spectre, and Meltdown, Rowhammer, and RAMBleed are just some samples,  Now OpenSSH encrypts secret keys in memory against Side-Channel attacks. Many experts demonstrated variants of side-channel attacks against OpenSSH application […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2019
US DHS CISA warns of Iran-linked hackers using data wipers in cyberattacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a significant increase in cyberattacks from Iranian hackers spreading data wipers. US DHS CISA agency warns of increased cyber-activity from Iran aimed at spreading data-wiping malware through password spraying, credential stuffing, and spear-phishing. The attacks are targeting U.S. industries and government agencies, the statement was also […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2019
Hundreds of million computers potentially exposed to hack due to a flaw in PC-Doctor component

Hundreds of million computers from many vendors may have been exposed to hack due to a serious flaw in PC-Doctor software. Experts at SafeBreach discovered that the Dell SupportAssist software, that comes preinstalled on most Dell PCs, was affected by a DLL hijacking vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-12280. The flaw could have been exploited by an […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2019
Trump secretly ordered cyber attacks against Iran missile systems

The United States launched a series of cyber attacks on Iran after the Iranian military has downed an American surveillance drone. The military response to Iran, after the Iranian army has downed an American surveillance drone, started from the cyberspace. US President Donald Trump first approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for downing a […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 219 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Bella Thorne published her private nude photos before a hacker that was threatening her Linux worm spreading via Exim servers hit Azure customers New Echobot Botnet targets Oracle, VMware […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2019
NASA hacked! An unauthorized Raspberry Pi connected to its network was the entry point

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. According to a report published by the NASA Office of Inspector General, hackers breached the Agency’s network in April 2018 and remained undetected for nearly a year. The report […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2019
Expert released PoC for Outlook for Android flaw addressed by Microsoft

Security researcher from F5 Networks that released more details and proof-of-concept for the recently addressed flaw in Outlook for Android. Microsoft has recently addressed an important vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1105, in Outlook for Android, that potentially affected over 100 million users. The vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting issue that is related to the way […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2019
Android Botnet leverages ADB ports and SSH to spread

Trend Micro recently discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH).  Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an new Android crypto-currency mining botnet that spreads via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH).  The Android Debug Bridge (adb) is […]