Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2018
Security experts from ESET observed a treat actor, tracked as PowerPool, exploiting the recently disclosed Windows zero-day flaw in targeted attacks. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed on August 27 by the security expert “@SandboxEscaper,” the researcher also published the exploit code for the vulnerability. The vulnerability affects Microsoft’s Windows operating systems that could be exploited by a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2018
Cisco has released thirty security patch advisory to address a total of 32 security vulnerabilities in its products, including three critical flaws. Cisco released thirty security patch advisory to address a total of 32 security vulnerabilities in its products. The good news is that the tech giant is not aware of any exploitation of the addressed vulnerabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2018
The clothing chain C&A in Brazil suffered a cyber attack on its gift card/exchange system last week, hackers leaked data on Pastebin. The International fashion retail clothing chain C&A in Brazil suffered a data breach, the company confirmed hackers hit its gift card platform. Hackers accessed to records belonging to customers who purchased gift cards, exposed data includes ID […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2018
The Iran-linked APT group OilRig was recently observed using a new variant of the OopsIE Trojan that implements news evasion capabilities. Experts at Palo Alto Networks observed a new campaign carried out by the Iran-linked APT group OilRig that was leveraging on a new variant of the OopsIE Trojan. The OilRig hacker group is an Iran-linked APT that has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2018
The MEGA Chrome browser extension had been hacked and replaced with a one that steals users’ credentials for popular web services Are you using the MEGA Chrome browser extension? Uninstall it now because the Chrome extension for MEGA file storage service had been hacked and replaced with a one that steals users’ credentials for popular […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2018
Researchers at security firm Group-IB have exposed the attacks carried out by the Silence cybercriminal group, providing details on its tactics and tools. Experts at security firm Group-IB have exposed the attacks committed by Silence cybercriminal group. While the gang had previously targeted Russian banks, Group-IB experts also have discovered evidence of the group’s activity in more than 25 countries worldwide. Group-IB […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2018
Researchers from security firm CrowdStrike have observed a new campaign associated with the GOBLIN PANDA APT group. Experts from security firm CrowdStrike have uncovered a new campaign associated with the GOBLIN PANDA APT group. The group also knows as Cycldek was first spotted in September 2013, it was mainly targeting entities in Southeast Asia using different malware variants mainly PlugX and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2018
Security expert discovered that Skype has a malloc(): memory corruption vulnerability that could be triggered while users share some media/file with someone during a call. Tested on: Linux zero 4.15.0-29-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 17 15:39:52 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) Product affected: Skype for linux (skypeforlinux_8.27.0.85_amd64.deb)Steps to reproduce this issue: 1. Open […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2018
Security researcher discovered that many misconfigured Tor sites using SSL certificated could expose the public IP addresses of underlying servers. Yonathan Klijnsma, a threat researcher at RiskIQ, has discovered that many misconfigured Tor sites using SSL certificated could expose the public IP addresses of underlying servers. Properly configured servers hosting hidden services have to listen only on the localhost (127.0.0.1) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2018
Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center discovered that thousands of 3D printers are exposed online without proper defense. The news is worrisome, thousands of 3D printers are exposed online to remote cyber attacks. According to the experts at SANS Internet Storm Center that scanned the internet for vulnerable 3D printers, a Shodan query has found […]
