Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2019
Google this week revealed a Windows zero-day that is being actively exploited in targeted attacks alongside a recently fixed Chrome flaw. Google this week disclosed a Windows zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in targeted attacks alongside a recently addressed flaw in Chrome flaw (CVE-2019-5786). The Windows zero-day vulnerability is a local privilege escalation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2019
Zero-day broker firm Zerodium is offering up to $500,000 for VMware ESXi (vSphere) and Microsoft Hyper-V vulnerabilities. Exploit acquisition firm Zerodium is offering up to $500,000 for VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V vulnerabilities. The company is looking for exploits that allow guest-to-host escapes in default configurations to gain full access to the host. The overall […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2019
A study conducted by academics discovered that SSL and TLS certificates and associated services can be easily acquired from dark web marketplaces. A study sponsored by Venafi and conducted by researchers from Georgia State University in the U.S. and the University of Surrey in the U.K. discovered that SSL and TLS certificates and associated services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2019
Cisco released security updates to address over two dozen serious vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco Nexus switches. Cisco released security updates to address over two dozen serious vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco Nexus switches, including denial-of-service (DoS) issues, arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation flaws. Cisco published security advisories for most of the vulnerabilities, many of them impact the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2019
Security experts at FortiGuard uncovered a new malware campaign aimed at delivering the StealthWorker brute-force malware. The malicious code targets both Windows and Linux systems, compromised systems are used to carry out brute force attacks along with other infected systems. The malicious code was first discovered by Malwarebytes at the end of February and tracked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2019
Researchers at Microsoft warn of damages caused by cyber operations conducted by Iran-linked cyberespionage groups. Security experts at Microsoft are warning of economic damages caused by the activity of Iran-linked hacking groups that are working to penetrate systems, businesses, and governments worldwide. According to Microsoft, the attackers already caused hundreds of millions of dollars in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2019
UPnP-enabled devices running outdated software are exposed to a wide range of attacks exploiting known flaws in UPnP libraries. A broad range of UPnP-enabled devices running outdated software are exposed to attacks exploiting known flaws in UPnP libraries, Tony Yang, Home Network Researcher, has found 1,648,769 devices using the Shodan search engine, 35% were using […]
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 […]
