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Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2018
Dissecting the Mindscrew-Powershell Obfuscation

The Yoroi-Cybaze ZLAB dissected the VBS script embedded into the zip archives delivered to the victims of a recent attack. Introduction Few days ago, the CERT-Yoroi bulletin N061118 disclosed a dangerous campaign attacking several Italian users. The attack wave contained some interesting techniques need to look into further, especially regarding the obfuscation used to hide the malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2018
Knock-Knock Docker!! Will you let me in? Open API Abuse in Docker Containers

Exploring the open API abuse for Docker Containers. Docker is a popular container product which has been adopted widely by the community. Preface IT industry has seen quite a few transformations in last couple of decades with advent of disruptive technologies. Back in 2000, every aspiring student wanted to become computer /IT engineer, thanks to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2018
U.S. DoJ charges Iranian duo over SamSam Ransomware activity

The U.S. DoJ charges two Iranian men over their alleged role in creating and spreading the infamous SamSam ransomware. Two Iranian men, Faramarz Shahi Savandi (34) and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri (27) have been charged by DoJ for their role in creating and distributing the dreaded SamSam ransomware. The duo faces six hacking and extortion-related charges, including conspiracy […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2018
Dell data breach – Dell forces password reset after the incident

Dell data breach – IT giant Dell disclosed a data breach, the company confirmed it has detected an intrusion in its systems on November 9th 2018. Attackers were trying to exfiltrate customer data (i.e. names, email addresses, and hashed passwords) from the company portal Dell.com, from support.dell.com websites. Wednesday that its online electronics marketplace experienced a […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2018
AccuDoc Data Breach impacted 2.6 Million Atrium Health patients

Hospital network Atrium Health suffered a data breach, hacked accessed patients’ personal information after compromised the technology solutions provider AccuDoc. Atrium Health offers healthcare and wellness programs in the Southeast of the United States through more than 40 hospitals and 900 care locations. AccuDoc is a company providing technology solutions to the healthcare industry, including Hospital […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2018
FBI along with security firms dismantled 3ve Ad Fraud Operation

FBI along with cybersecurity firms dismantled a sophisticated ad fraud scheme that allowed its operators to earn tens of millions of dollars Law enforcement and private firms such as Google and WhiteOps took down one of the largest and most sophisticated digital ad-fraud campaign, tracked as Dubbed 3ve, that infected over 1.7 million computers to carry out advertising frauds. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2018
British MP: Facebook was aware about Russian activity at least since 2014

A British MP claims Facebook was ware about Russian political interference in 2014, long before the events become public. The British MP Damian Collins, head of a parliamentary inquiry into disinformation, revealed that one of the emails seized from US software company Six4Three as part of a US lawsuit, demonstrates that a Facebook engineer had notified the social network giant in October […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2018
Initial patch for Webex Meetings flaw WebExec was incomplete. Cisco fixed it again

Cisco has released a new round of security patches to address potentially serious WebExec Webex flaw first addressed one month ago. One month ago, Cisco addressed the CVE-2018-15442 vulnerability, also tracked as WebExec by Counter Hack researchers Ron Bowes and Jeff McJunkin who discovered it. The flaw affects Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop and has been rated as a […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2018
Uber fined nearly $1.2 Million by Dutch and UK Data Protection Authorities over data breach

British and Dutch data protection regulators fined the ride-sharing company Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 data breach. British and Dutch data protection regulators have fined Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 security breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users. In November 2017, the Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced that hackers broke […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2018
Malicious developer distributed tainted version of Event-Stream NodeJS Module to steal Bitcoins

Hacker compromised third-party NodeJS module “Event-Stream” introducing a malicious code aimed at stealing funds in Bitcoin wallet apps. The malicious code was introduced in the version 3.3.6, published on September 9 via the  Node Package Manager (NPM) repository. The Event-Stream library is a very popular NodeJS module used to allow developers the management of data streams, it has nearly 2 […]