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 doesn’t 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 £16.4m as part of a settlement with the Financial Conduct Authority following the 2016 security breach. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has assigned a £16.4m fine to Tesco Bank for the vulnerabilities in its systems that were exploited by hackers to steal millions of pounds from customers’ online accounts in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2018
Security experts from Qihoo 360 NetLab spotted GhostDNS, a malware that already infected over 100K+ devices and targets 70+ different types of routers Security experts from Qihoo 360 NetLab have uncovered an ongoing hacking campaign that leverages the GhostDNS malware. Attackers have already hijacked over 100,000 home routers, the malicious code allows to modify DNS settings to hijack the traffic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2018
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Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2018
Facebook has revealed additional details about the cyber attack that exposed personal information of 50 million accounts. Last week, Facebook announced that attackers exploited a vulnerability in the “View As” feature that allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens of 50 Million Users. The “View As” feature allows users to see how others see their profile, it was implemented […]
