Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
An international operation conducted by the Romanian National Police and the Italian National Police, with support from Europol, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), and Eurojust. led to the arrest of 20 individuals involved in a banking spear phishing scam. According to the investigators, the banking phishing scam allowed crooks to defrauded bank customers of €1 million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
What are the advantages for adopting an SSL Certificates and why is it important to discover and analyze SSL Certificates online? Secure Socket Layer (SSL) has gained weight with the increasing concern of security for all sensitive data online. In fact, it is the only reliable source for secure business and data handling. The entire […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
Under Armour became aware of a potential security breach on March 25, the company said an unauthorized party had accessed MyFitnessPal user data. Under Armour learned of the data breach on March 25, it promptly reported the hack to law enforcement and hired security consultants to investigate the incident. Attackers hacked the MyFitnessPal application that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
Security researchers at Arbor Networks have discovered a threat actor targeting financial institutions in Japan using the Panda Banker banking malware (aka Zeus Panda, PandaBot). Panda Banker was first spotted 2016 by Fox-IT, it borrows code from the Zeus banking Trojan. In November 2017, threat actors behind the Zeus Panda banking Trojan leveraged black Search Engine Optimization (SEO) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2018
The Drupal development team has fixed the drupalgeddon2 vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to take over a website. A few days ago, Drupal Security Team confirmed that a “highly critical” vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7600, affects Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the availability of security updates on March 28th. The vulnerability was discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2018
This week Cisco patched three critical vulnerabilities affecting its operating system IOS XE, two of them are remote code execution flaws that could be exploited by an attacker to gain full control over vulnerable systems. Cisco March 2018 Semiannual Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication addressed 22 vulnerabilities, 3 of them rated as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2018
According to a report from the Seattle Times, the dreaded WannaCry ransomware hit a Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday. WannaCry is back, this time it infected some systems belonging to US aircraft manufacturer Boeing. According to a report from the Seattle Times, the dreaded ransomware hit a Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2018
Another US city hit by hackers, over the weekend, a cyber attack took down part of Baltimore 911 system for seventeen hours. Part of its 911 service at the US city of Baltimore was taken down during the weekend by a cyber attack. The attackers targeted a specific server and took down the CAD system from 8.30am […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2018
A security researcher discovered that some of the Windows updates released by Microsoft to mitigate the Meltdown flaw introduce a severe bug. Meltdown and Spectre security updates made the headlines again, according to the security researcher Ulf Frisk some of them issued for Windows introduce a severe flaw. The Meltdown and Spectre security updates released by Microsoft in January and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2018
A recently discovered Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit has been used to spread a variety of malware, including RATs and banking Trojans. Security experts at Proofpoint recently discovered a Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit that has been used to spread a variety of malware, including banking Trojans and RATs (i.e. Trickbot, Chthonic, FormBook and […]
