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Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2019
From Targeted Attack to Untargeted Attack

Today I’d like to share an interesting and heavily obfuscated Malware which made me thinking about the meaning of ‘Targeted Attack’. Nowadays a Targeted Attack is mostly used to address state assets or business areas. For example a targeted attack might address Naval industry (MartyMcFly example is definitely a great example) or USA companies (Botnet Against […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2019
Hacker is targeting DNA sequencer applications from Iranian IP address

Threat actors are targeting Web-based DNA sequencer applications leveraging a still-unpatched zero-day to take over the targeted systems. Starting from June 12, 2019, the researcher Ankit Anubhav from NewSky Security, observed threat actors targeting Web-based DNA sequencer applications. The attackers are leveraging a still-unpatched zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-6526, to gain full control over the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2019
Bella Thorne published her private nude photos before a hacker that was threatening her

Bella Thorne is the last victim of a sextortion attack, in a case similar to the Fappening saga, a hacker threatened the actress to publish her private nude photos. The hacker first obtained nude photos of Bella Thorne then threatened her to leak online the picture, but she gave an unsettling answer. Bella Thorne published tweets […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2019
New Echobot Botnet targets Oracle, VMware Apps and includes 26 Exploits

Operators behind the Echobot botnet added new exploits to infect IoT devices, and also enterprise apps Oracle WebLogic and VMware SD-Wan. Recently a new botnet, tracked Echobot, appeared in the threat landscape its operators are adding new exploits to infect a broad range of systems, including IoT devices, enterprise apps Oracle WebLogic and VMware SD-Wan. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2019
Linux worm spreading via Exim servers hit Azure customers

On Friday, security experts at Microsoft warned of a new Linux worm, spreading via Exim email servers, that already compromised some Azure installs. Bad actors continue to target cloud services in the attempt of abusing them for several malicious purposes, like storing malware or implementing command and control servers. Microsoft Azure is not immune, recently […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 218 – 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! Critical RCE affects older Diebold Nixdorf ATMs Facebook is going to stop Huawei pre-installing apps on mobile devices Millions of Exim mail servers vulnerable to cyber attacks CIA sextortion […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2019
XSS flaw would have allowed hackers access to Google’s network and impersonate its employees

Bug hunter Thomas Orlita discovered an XSS vulnerability in Google’s Invoice Submission Portal that would have allowed attackers access to Google’s internal network The Czech researcher Thomas Orlita discovered an XSS vulnerability in Google’s Invoice Submission Portal that would have allowed attackers access to part of Google’s internal network. The Google Invoice Submission Portal is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2019
Crooks exploit exposed Docker APIs to build AESDDoS botnet

Cybercriminals are attempting to exploit an API misconfiguration in Docker containers to infiltrate them and run the Linux bot AESDDoS. Hackers are attempting to exploit an API misconfiguration in the open-source version of the popular DevOps tool Docker Engine-Community to infiltrate containers and run the Linux bot AESDDoS (Backdoor.Linux.DOFLOO.AA). Threat actors are actively scanning the Internet for exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2019
Xenotime threat actor now is targeting Electric Utilities in US and APAC

Experts at Dragos firm reported that Xenotime threat actor behind the 2017 Trisis/Triton malware attack is targeting electric utilities in the US and APAC. Xenotime threat actor is considered responsible for the 2017 Trisis/Triton malware attack that hit oil and gas organizations. In December 2017, the Triton malware  (aka Trisis) was discovered by researchers at FireEye, it was specifically […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2019
Mozilla addressed flaws in Thunderbird that allow code execution

Mozilla released security updates for the Thunderbird email client that address vulnerabilities that could allow code execution on impacted systems.  Mozilla released security updates for the Thunderbird email client that address vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on impacted systems.  Mozilla released Thunderbird version 60.7.1 that addresses three High severity […]