Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2019
Security experts at Symantec linked the massive Singapore Healthcare breach suffered by SingHealth to the ‘Whitefly’ cyberespionage group. In 2018, the largest healthcare group in Singapore, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal information of 1.5 million patients who visited the clinics of the company between May 2015 and July 2018. Stolen […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2019
In the past weeks, a new strange campaign emerged in the cyber threat Italian landscape, it has been tracked as âOperation Pistacchietto.â Introduction In the past weeks, a new strange campaign emerged in the Italian landscape. It has been baptized âOperation Pistacchiettoâ from a username extracted from a Github account used to serve some part […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2019
A new zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome, tracked as CVE-2019-5786, is actively exploited in attacks in the wild. A new zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome is actively exploited in attacks in the wild. The vulnerability was discovered late February by Clement Lecigne, a security researcher at the Google Threat Analysis Group. The high severity zero-day […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2019
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced that all the three former members of the controversial Hacking Team will âtransition outâ of Neutrino. Coinbase, the largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange and wallet announced in February the acquisition of the Italian blockchain intelligence startup Neutrino. Neutrino was founded in 2016 by Giancarlo Russo, Marco Valleri, and Alberto Ornaghi. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2019
The NSA released the Ghidra, a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that could be used to find vulnerabilities and security holes in applications. In January 2019, the National Security Agency (NSA) announced the release at the RSA Conference of the free reverse engineering framework GHIDRA. GHIDRA is a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that runs on major […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2019
Over the last few days, a new ransomware campaign infected several users around the world as part of the #OpJerusalem campaign. SI-LAB analyzed this malware and noticed that it does not use sophisticated techniques. Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2019
A cyber-espionage group, tracked as APT40, apparently linked to the Chinese government is focused on targeting countries important to the countryâs Belt and Road Initiative. The cyber-espionage group tracked as APT40 (aka TEMP.Periscope, TEMP.Jumper, and Leviathan), apparently linked to the Chinese government, is focused on targeting countries important to the countryâs Belt and Road Initiative […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2019
The Iran-linked Chafer APT group used a new Python-based backdoor in recent attacks aimed at a Turkish government entity. The Iran-linked Chafer APT group used a new Python-based backdoor in attacks carried out in November 2018 that targeted a Turkish government entity. The Chafer APT group has distributed data stealer malware since at least mid-2014, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2019
The Chinese Telco giant presents the Brussels Huawei HCSTC (Cyber Security Transparency Centre) that will also work on the definition of global security standards. Huawei is urging the adoption of a global framework for technical and legal verification with the intent of building trust. While the tech giant is in the middle of a heated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2019
Poorly protected Docker hosts exposed online continue to be a privileged target of crooks that abuse their computational resources in cryptojacking campaigns. Security experts have recently discovered hundreds of exposed Docker hosts that have been compromised by hackers exploiting the CVE-2019-5736 runc vulnerability in February. The flaw was discovered by the security researchers Adam Iwaniuk […]
