Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2018
Malware researchers from Abuse.ch, BrillantIT, and Proofpoint have sinkholed the control infrastructure behind EITest campaign and shut down it. Malware researchers from Abuse.ch, BrillantIT, and Proofpoint have sinkholed the control infrastructure behind EITest campaign that leveraged on a network of hacked servers exploited by crooks to distribute traffic (TDS). The network was used to redirect users to compromised domains hosting exploit kits, delivering […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2018
Probably you don’t know that many Android smartphone vendors fail to roll out Google’s security patches and updates exposing the users to severe risks. Researchers at Security Research Labs (SRL) that the problem also involves major vendors, including HTC, Huawei, and Motorola. In some cases, manufacturers roll out incomplete security patches leaving the devices vulnerable to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2018
The British train company Great Western Rail announced it has suffered a security breach that affected at least 1,000 accounts out of more than a million. The company owned by the FirstGroup transport business runs trains between London, Penzance, and Worcester Great Western Rail is urging affected customers to change the password used to access the GWR.com portal, it also informed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
After the publication of a working Proof-Of-Concept for Drupalgeddon2 on GitHub for âeducational or information purposes,â experts started observing bad actors attempting to exploit the flaw. At the end of March, the Drupal Security Team confirmed that a âhighly criticalâ vulnerability (dubbed Drupalgeddon2), tracked as CVE-2018-7600, was affecting Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the availability of security updates on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
When the Russian young Malware coder is praised by the Russian head of Information Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of North Ossetia. Under the spotlight: the story of Atsamaz Gatsoev (aka â1ms0rryâ) who has set up his illegal business. A new write-up made by a security researcher known as Benkow (@Benkow_) has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
Security researchers at Akamai have discovered a proxy botnet composed of more than 65,000 routers exposed to the Internet via the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. Crooks have compromised the devices of this multi-purpose proxy botnet to conduct a wide range of malicious activities, including spamming and phishing, click fraud, account takeover and credit card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
Uber agrees to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the massive 2016 data breach, the authorities could assign civil penalties against the company if it will fail to share incident data with FTC. Uber agrees to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the massive 2016 data breach. “Uber Technologies, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, India’s second exchange, announced that it has suffered a severe issue, 438 bitcoin, $3,3 million worth of bitcoin Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, India’s second exchange, announced that it has suffered a severe issue, 438 bitcoin, $3,3 million worth of bitcoin, have been transferred from the main wallet to an account that is not under their control. CEO […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2018
The Iran-linked APT33 group continues to be very active, security researchers at Cyberbit have discovered an Early Bird code injection technique used by the group. The Early Bird method was used to inject the TurnedUp malware into the infected systems evading security solutions. The technique allows injecting a malicious code into a legitimate process, it allows execution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2018
An 18-month-old CVE-2018-0950 vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook could be exploited by hackers to steal the Windows Password. Almost 18 months ago, the security researcher Will Dormann of the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has found a severe vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook (CVE-2018-0950), time is passed but Microsoft partially addressed it with the last Patch Tuesday updates. […]
