Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2018
Researchers have released a decryptor tool that could be used by victims of the Everbe Ransomware to decrypt their files for free. Good news for the victims of the Everbe Ransomware, the popular malware researchers Michael Gillespie and Maxime Meignan have released a decryptor that could be used by victims to decrypt their files for free. The Everbe Ransomware encrypts files […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2018
GnuPG 2.2.8 released earlier this month addresses the CVE-2018-12020 vulnerability, dubbed SigSpoof, affecting GnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools, and python-gnupg. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP). GnuPG allows users to encrypt and sign data and communications. GnuPG version 2.2.8 released earlier this month addresses the CVE-2018-12020 vulnerability, dubbed SigSpoof, affecting GnuPG, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2018
SAP June 2018 Security Patch Day addresses two security notes, the company fixed five issues for previously released notes, including two critical flaws rated Hot News. The most common flaw types are Cross-Site Scripting and Remote Command Execution, followed by implementation flaws and information disclosure. “It seems that the downward trend in the number of monthly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2018
According to a top US intelligence official, mobile phones of football fans traveling to Russia for the World Cup could be hacked by the Russian Intelligence. Russia World Cup 2018 – Mobile devices and computers of football fans traveling to Russia could be hacked by the Russian Intelligence, the alert was issued by William Evanina, Director […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2018
76. Calls on the EU to perform a comprehensive review of software, IT and communications equipment and infrastructure used in the institutions in order to exclude potentially dangerous programmes and devices, and to ban the ones that have been confirmed as malicious, such as Kaspersky Lab Bad news for Kaspersky, European Parliament passed a resolution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2018
Cyber criminal organizations and state-sponsored hackers continue to use Exploit kits to compromise targets world worldwide if the use of Exploit kits is decreased across the recent months, some of them were improved by adding the code to exploit recently discovered Flash and Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerabilities. “Since both Flash and the VBScript engine are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2018
A China-linked APT group, LuckyMouse, Emissary Panda, APT27 and Threat Group 3390, has targeted a national data center in Central Asia. The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S. defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide. In March 2018, security experts at Kaspersky Lab have observed an attack powered by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2018
June 12, 2018 – Cyber Defense eMagazine is arrived – OVER SIX THOUSAND PAGES – SIX YEARS – #1 GLOBAL SOURCE FOR CYBER DEFENSE Cyber Defense eMagazine June 2018 Edition has arrived. We hope you enjoy this month’s edition…packed with over 150 pages of excellent content. InfoSec Knowledge is Power. We have 6 years of eMagazines online […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2018
A security researcher from Vertek Corporation reported to Bleeping Computer that over 43 million email addresses have been leaked from the command and control server of a spam botnet. An expert from Vertek Corporation spotted the C&C server while investigating a recent malware campaign distributing a version of the Trik trojan. The malicious code was used as a first-stage malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2018
Retailer Dixons Carphone has disclosed a security breach that involved 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records. Dixons Carphone discovered an “unauthorised access” to certain data held by the company, it promptly launched an investigation and hired an external firm to shed the light on the case. The company immediately reported the […]
