Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2017
Flaws in Stratos Global AmosConnect 8 PC-based SATCOM service impact thousands of customers worldwide running the newest version of the platform that is used in vessels. Security researchers at IOActive have disclosed critical security vulnerabilities in the maritime Stratos Global’s AmosConnect 8.4.0 satellite-based shipboard communication platform. AmosConnect 8 is a PC-based SATCOM service, introduced in 2010, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2017
Basetools underground hacking forum was breached, hackers demand a $50K ransom to avoid sharing stolen data, including admin identity, with law enforcement. A hacker that goes online with the Twitter handle mat (@0xScripts) has breached a popular underground hacking forum and he is threatening to share the stolen archive to the law enforcement if the administrators […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2017
Microsoft fixed a vulnerability that could allow hackers to steal Windows login credentials without any user interaction. Microsoft fixed a serious vulnerability that could allow attackers to steal Windows NTLM password hashes without any user interaction. The tech giant patched the issues only for recent versions Windows (Windows 10 and Server 2016), to trigger the flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2017
Files Encrypted by Bad Rabbit Recoverable Without Paying Ransom. Some victims of the recent Bad Rabbit attack may be able to recover their files encrypted by the ransomware without paying the ransom. The discovery was made by researchers at Kaspersky Lab that analyzed the encryption functionality implemented by the ransomware. Once the ransomware infects a computer, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2017
Crooks continues to target Japanese users, now the hackers leverage the Ursnif banking Trojan, aka Gozi, to hit the country. According to researchers at IBM X-Force group, cyber criminals are delivering the infamous malware via spam campaigns that began last month. The Ursnif banking Trojan was the most active malware code in the financial sector in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2017
UK Government blamed North Korea for the WannaCry attack that affected a third of English hospitals. “This attack, we believe quite strongly that it came from a foreign state,” Ben Wallace, a junior minister for security, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “North Korea was the state that we believe was involved in this worldwide attack,” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2017
Security experts from Trend Micro have published an interesting report on the Middle East and North African cybercrime underground market, enjoy it! We explained several times that criminal communities adopt different tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) depending on the location they operate. Experts at Trend Micro have highlighted the differences between the different underground communities, they […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2017
Malware researchers at Cisco Talos team discovered the Bad Rabbit Ransomware leverages EternalRomance to propagate in the network. New precious details emerge from the analysis of malware researchers at Cisco Talos and F-Secure who respectively discovered and confirmed the presence an NSA exploit in the Bad Rabbit ransomware. On October 24, hundreds of organizations worldwide were hit by the Bad Rabbit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2017
Microsoft announced the availability of Sonar, an open source linting and website scanning tool that was developed by the Microsoft Edge team. The open source tool was designed to allow developers to identify and solve performance and security issues, it is available on GitHub. The Microsoft Edge team donated Sonar to the JS Foundation, the tech giant will […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2017
The celeb London Bridge Plastic Surgery clinic confirmed in a statement that it has been the victim of a cyber attack. The story I’m going to tell you shows the risks of cyber attacks to users’ privacy, a plastic surgery clinic frequented by celebrities suffered a security data breach. The clinic is the London Bridge Plastic […]
