Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·     Attackers behind Cloudflare_solutions Keylogger are back, 2000 WordPress sites already infected ·     Download URLs for two packages of the phpBB forum software were compromised ·     Iran-linked APT OilRig target IIS Web Servers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2018
Aiming to tackle threats from rogue nations and hackers The UK Government urges to boost security measures of services in critical sectors. On November 2016 United Kingdom published the National Cyber Security Strategy to address cyber threats from rogue nations like Iran, Russia, China, terrorists, states sponsored hackers and cyber menaces like ransomware against the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2018
Participants to the Bee Token ICO were robbed for 100s of ETH, scammers sent out a phishing email stating that the ICO was now open, followed by an Ethereum address they controlled. Another day, another incident involving cryptocurrencies, hundreds of users fell victims to email scams in the last days. The victims were tricked by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2018
Cryptocurrencies are in the middle of a Tempest, on Thursday India announced it would adopt measures to prevent the use of virtual currencies in the country, the value of Bitcoin dropped below $9,000 for the first time since November. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his annual budget, explained its government would “take all measures to eliminate use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2018
Researchers at security firm Radware have spotted a new IoT botnet, dubbed JenX, the leverages the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices. Researchers at security firm Radware have spotted a new IoT botnet, dubbed JenX, that exploits vulnerabilities triggered by the Satori botnet and is leveraging the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2018
Trustwave disclosed two vulnerabilities in Western Digital My Cloud network storage devices could be exploited by a local attacker to gain root access to the NAS devices. Researchers at Trustwave disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Western Digital My Cloud network storage devices could be exploited by a local attacker to delete files stored on devices or to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2018
Silicon Valley with its bright minds has come to a point where almost every day they collect information about individuals. Why are we all silent on the surveillance? NSA spying apart, what Facebook, Apple, and Google know about their usual users is quite overwhelming. Each of these major players is trying to find more about us. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2018
Chinese Iron Tiger APT is back, the new campaign, dubbed by Operation PZChao is targeting government, technology, education, and telecommunications organizations in Asia and the US. Malware researchers from Bitdefender have discovered and monitored for several months the activity of a custom-built backdoor capable of password-stealing, bitcoin-mining, and of course to gain full control of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2018
Researcher discovered a critical vulnerability in the web server component of 3S-Smart Software Solutionsâ CODESYS WebVisu product currently used in 116 PLCs and HMIs from many vendors, Security researcher Zhu WenZhe from Istury IOT discovered a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the web server component of 3S-Smart Software Solutionsâ CODESYS WebVisu product that allows users to view […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2018
Researchers at Qihoo 360’s Netlab analyzed a new campaign powered by the DDG botnet, the second largest mining botnet of ever, that targets Redis and OrientDB servers. A new Monero-mining botnet dubbed DDG was spotted in the wild, the malware targets Redis and OrientDB servers. According to the researchers at Qihoo 360’s Netlab, the DDG botnet […]
