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Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2018
Guardzilla Security Video System Footage exposed online

A vulnerability in the Guardzilla home video surveillance system could be exploited by users to watch Guardzilla footage of other users. The Guardzilla All-In-One Video Security System is an indoor video surveillance solution. The flaw was discovered by the researchers Nick McClendon, Andrew Mirghassemi, Charles Dardaman, INIT_6 and Chris, from 0DayAllDay, the issue was reported […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2018
Personal details of roughly 1000 North Korean defectors leaked in hacking case.

Personal details of roughly 1,000 North Korean defectors living in South Korea have been leaked in a hacking case. Personal details of nearly 1,000 North Korean defectors were leaked as a result of a cyber attack exposing them to severe threats from Pyongyang. A similar incident has never happened before, the Unification Ministry said that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2018
Expert published a PoC exploit code for RCE flaw in Microsoft Edge

The security researcher Bruno Keith from the Phoenhex group published a PoC code for a remote code execution flaw in Microsoft Edge browser (CVE-2018-8629). The vulnerability affects the JavaScript engine Chakra implemented in the Edge web browser, an attacker could exploit it to execute arbitrary code on the target machine with the same privileges as […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2018
A new Shamoon 3 sample uploaded to VirusTotal from France

A new sample of Shamoon 3 was uploaded on December 23 to the VirusTotal platform from France, it is signed with a Baidu certificate. A new sample of the dreaded Shamoon wiper was uploaded on December 23 to the VirusTotal platform from France. This sample attempt to disguise itself as a system optimization tool developed […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2018
Market volume of illegal online sales of alcohol exceeded 30 million USD in 2018 in Russia

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that the market volume of illegal online sales of alcohol in Russia exceeded 30 million USD in 2018, i.e. almost 5.8 million USD (+23%) more than in 2017. Group-IB Brand Protection team discovered a total of around 4,000 websites illegally selling alcohol. Criminals create entire networks from the “mirror–websites” of their online alcohol stores; if one […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2018
Thousands of BevMo customers impacted in payment card breach

BevMo, the wine and liquor store, is warning customers of payment card breach and reported the incident to the authorities. The wine and liquor store BevMo suffered a payment card breach, a hacker stole credit card numbers and other information from more than 14,000 customers who purchased goods on the website. The company has notified […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2018
Android Pie introduces important security and privacy enhancements

The latest version of Google OS, Android Pie, implements significant enhancements for cybersecurity, including a stronger encryption and authentication. Google experts worked on OS hardening and the implementation of anti-exploitation mechanisms with a great attention to the user privacy. The tech giant updated the File-Based Encryption implementing the support for external storage media, it also […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2018
Hackers infect Linux servers with JungleSec Ransomware via IPMI Remote console

Since November, a new ransomware called JungleSec has been infecting servers through unsecured IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) cards. Security experts at BleepingComputer wrote about a new ransomware called JungleSec that is infecting victims through unsecured IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) cards. The ransomware was first observed early November. The IPMI is a set of computer interface […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2018
Experts discovered a critical bug in Schneider Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

A critical vulnerability affects Schneider Electric electric vehicle charging stations, the EVLink Parking systems. EVlink Parking charging solutions are usually in parking environments, including offices, hotels, supermarkets, fleets, and municipals. According to the company, the issue is tied to a hard-coded credential bug that could be exploited by attackers to gain access to the system. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2018
Hackers target financial firms hosting malicious payloads on Google Cloud Storage

Researchers at Menlo Labs uncovered a malicious email campaign targeting employees of banks and financial services companies abusing Google Cloud Storage. The campaign targeted organizations in the US and the UK, the attackers have been abusing Google Cloud Storage to deliver payload. The spam campaign uses messages including links that point to archivefiles such as .zip or .gz. Attackers […]