Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2018
This week, a federal court has ruled that Germany’s BND foreign intelligence service can monitor major internet hubs for strategic security interests. Recently, the operator of the world’s top Internet Hub sued the BND foreign intelligence service for the surveillance activity conducted by the spy agency. The operator wants to be sure that the agency is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2018
A North Korea-linked APT group, tracked as Andariel Group, leveraged an ActiveX zero-day vulnerability in targeted attacks against South Korean entities. According to a report published by South Korean cyber-security firm AhnLab, the Andariel Group is a division of the dreaded Lazarus APT Group, it already exploited ActiveX vulnerabilities in past attacks The attackers exploited at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2018
A US Federal court judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, rejected a lawsuit by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab against the ban on the use it solution by government agencies On Wednesday, the US Federal court judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rejected a lawsuit by Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab against the ban on the use it solution by government agencies. The ban on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2018
The SpamCannibal blacklist service was hijacked since Wednesday morning, attackers changed the DNS name server settings for the website overnight. The SpamCannibal was born to blacklist IP address of malicious servers involved in spam campaigns and DoS attacks. SpamCannibal was using a continually updated database containing the IP addresses of spam or DoS servers and blocks their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2018
Dmitri Kaslov, a security researcher at Telspace Systems, discovered a vulnerability in the JScript component of the Windows operating system that can be exploited by an attacker to execute malicious code on a target computer. Kaslov disclosed the zero-day flaw through the Trend Micro Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) back in January, then ZDI experts reported it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2018
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI issued a joint Technical alert on two strain on malware, the Joanap backdoor Trojan and Brambul Server Message Block worm, associated with the HIDDEN COBRA North Korea-linked APT group. The US-CERT alert reads: “Working with U.S. government partners, DHS and FBI identified Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and other indicators […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2018
The Git community disclosed a dangerous vulnerability in Git, tracked as CVE-2018-11235, that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user operates in a malicious repository. The Git developer team and other firms offering Git repository hosting services have issued security updates to address a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-11235 in the Git […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2018
On Monday, Two Canada’s five largest banks, the Bank of Montreal (BMO) and Simplii Financial, informed their customers they are investigating a data breach. The security breach suffered by the Bank of Montreal (BMO) may have impacted less than 50,000 of the overall 8 million customers, the incident suffered by Simplii Financial may have exposed information of 40,000 clients. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2018
Researchers at IBM X-Force Research team discovered a new Delphi-based banking Trojan dubbed MnuBot that leverages Microsoft SQL Server for communication with the command and control (C&C). The MnuBot Trojan implements a two-stage attack flow, it is composed of two main components that are tasked for the two stages. In the first stage, the malware searches for a file […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2018
A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-11518 could be exploited by attackers to power a phreaking attack on HCL legacy Interactive Voice Response systems that do not use VoIP. These IVR systems rely on various frequencies of audio signals; based on the frequency, certain commands and functions are processed. Since these frequencies are accepted within a phone call, an attacker can […]
