Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2018
The industrial giant Schneider discovered that the Triton malware exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Triconex Safety Instrumented System (SIS) controllers in an attack aimed at a critical infrastructure organization. In December 2017, a new malicious code dubbed Triton malware  (aka Trisis) was discovered by researchers at FireEye, it was specifically designed to target industrial control […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2018
Security researchers at Forcepoint have spotted a new spam campaign that is abusing compromised FTP servers as a repository for malicious documents and infecting users with the Dridex banking Trojan. The Dridex banking Trojan is a long-running malware that has been continuously improved across the years. The malicious email campaign was first noticed by Forcepoint on January 17, 2018, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2018
The software developer Abraham Masri has discovered a new bug, dubbed ‘chaiOS’ that could be exploited to crash a target’s iMessage application. The researcher and software developer Abraham Masri has discovered a new bug, dubbed ‘chaiOSÂ Text Bomb’ that could be exploited to crash recipient’s iMessage application in a continuous loop. https://twitter.com/cheesecakeufo/status/953401511429726210 The flaw exploited […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2018
On January 8, the Health South East RHF, that is the healthcare organization that manages hospitals in Norway’s southeast region disclosed a major security breach. On January 8, the Health South East RHF, that is the healthcare organization that manages hospitals in Norway’s southeast region (countries of Ăstfold, Akershus, Oslo, Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2018
Intel has published the results of the test conducted on the Meltdown and Spectre patches and their impact on performance confirming serious problems. According to the tech giant systems with several types of processors running Meltdown and Spectre patches may experience more frequent reboots. A few days ago Intel reported that extensive test conducted on home and business PCs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2018
North Korean hackers belonging to the North Korea Group 123 have conducted at least six different massive malware campaigns during 2017. North Korean hackers have conducted at least six different massive malware campaigns during 2017, most of them against targets in South Korea. Security researchers from Cisco’s Talos group who have monitored the situation for 12 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2018
Security experts from FireEye have spotted a new strain of the Zyklon malware that has been delivered by using new vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. Researchers at FireEye reported the malware was used in attacks against organizations in the telecommunications, financial, and insurance sectors. Zyklon has been spotted for the first time in 2016, it is a publicly available […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2018
The Briton Goncalo Esteves (24), also known as KillaMuvz, has pleaded guilty to charges related to creating and running malware services. The Briton Goncalo Esteves (24) has pleaded guilty to charges related to creating and running malware services. Such kind of platforms allows crooks to improve the development of their malicious codes. The malware created with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2018
Security researchers at Check Point have spotted a malware family dubbed RubyMiner that is targeting web servers worldwide in an attempt to exploit their resources to mine Monero cryptocurrency. RubyMiner, was first spotted last week when a massive campaign targeted web servers worldwide, most of them in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2018
Oracle rolled out the January 2018 Critical Patch Update that includes 237 security fixes in its products, the majority of which is remotely exploitable without authentication. The January 2018 Critical Patch Update also includes security updates that address Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. âThe January 2018 Critical Patch Update provides fixes for certain Oracle products for the […]
