Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2018
Security experts from FireEye published a report on the activity of financially motivated threat actors, tracked as APT38, linked to the North Korean government. The attacks aimed at financial institutions, FireEye estimates APT38 has stolen at least a hundred million dollars from banks worldwide. APT38 appears to be a North Korea-linked group separate from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2018
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Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2018
Experts discovered nine vulnerabilities affecting NAS devices that could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to access protected content. Nine flaws affecting NAS devices could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to access protected content. The vulnerabilities are traked as CVE-2018-9074, CVE-2018-9075, CVE-2018-9076, CVE-2018-9077, CVE-2018-9078, CVE-2018-9079, CVE-2018-9080, CVE-2018-9081 and CVE-2018-9082. According to Lenovo, the flaws affect 20 models of network attached storage (NAS) devices sold by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2018
According to malware researchers from Proofpoint, DanaBot attackers launched a new campaign aimed at banks in the United States. A couple of weeks ago, security experts at ESET observed a surge in activity of DanaBot banking Trojan that was targeting Poland, Italy, Germany, Austria, and as of September 2018, Ukraine. DanaBot is a multi-stage modular banking Trojan written […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2018
Security experts from Palo Alto Networks have collected evidence that links the recently discovered NOKKI malware to North Korea-Linked APT. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have spotted a new variant of the KONNI malware, tracked as NOKKI. that was attributed to North Korea-linked attackers. NOKKI borrows the code from the KONNI malware, the latter is a remote access Trojan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2018
Experts at the Cybaze Z-Lab have analyzed the latest iteration of the infamous GandCrab ransomware, version 5.0. Malware researchers at Cybaze ZLab analyzed the latest version of the infamous GandCrab ransomware, version 5.0. Most of the infections have been observed in central Europe, but experts found evidence that the malicious code doesnât infect Russian users. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2018
Foxit Software released a security update for its Foxit Reader product that addresses over 100 vulnerabilities, 18 of them rated as critical. Foxit Software released a security update for its Foxit Reader product that addresses over 100 vulnerabilities, some of them that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Foxit Reader is a multilingual freemium PDF tool that can create, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2018
Checkpoint experts discovered in the Dark Web an online builder, dubbed Gazorp, that allows crooks to create customized binaries for the Azorult malware. Security researchers from Checkpoint have discovered in the Dark Web an online builder, dubbed Gazorp, that allows crooks to easily create customized binaries for the Azorult info-stealing malware. The Gazorp builder allows generating for free the malicious code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2018
Adobe has released security updates to fix 86 vulnerabilities in Mac and Windows version of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, 46 of them rated as critical. Adobe has released security updates to address 86 vulnerabilities affecting Mac and Windows version of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. The security updates fix 47 vulnerabilities classified as ‘critical’ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2018
Tesco Bank agreed to pay ÂŁ16.4m as part of a settlement with the Financial Conduct Authority following the 2016 security breach. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has assigned a ÂŁ16.4m fine to Tesco Bank for the vulnerabilities in its systems that were exploited by hackers to steal millions of pounds from customersâ online accounts in […]
