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Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2017
Oracle releases security patches for Apache Struts CVE-2017-9805 Flaw exploited in the wild

Oracle fixed several issues in the Apache Struts 2 framework including the flaw CVE-2017-9805 that has been exploited in the wild for the past few weeks. Oracle has released patches for vulnerabilities affecting many of its products, the IT giant has fixed several issues in the Apache Struts 2 framework, including the flaw CVE-2017-9805 that has been exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2017
Deloitte targeted by a cyber attack that exposed clients’ secret emails

The accountancy firm Deloitte announced it is has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised its global email server. Today the accountancy firm giant Deloitte revealed that is has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients. According to The Guardian that first reported the incident, hackers may have accessed company […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2017
Adobe accidentally leaked online its Private PGP Key

The Adobe product security incident response team (PSIRT) accidentally published a private PGP key on its blog, once discovered the issue it quickly revoked it. On Friday, the Adobe PSIRT updated its Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) key and published the new public key on the blog post. The new key should have been valid until September […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2017
Experts say United Cyber Caliphate hackers have low-level cyber capabilities

United Cyber Caliphate members stopped trying to develop their own hacking and communication tools and used to search them into the criminal underground. According to Kyle Wilhoit, a senior security researcher at DomainTools, who made a speech at the DerbyCon hacking conference in US, ISIS members stopped trying to develop their own hacking and communication […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2017
RedBoot ransomware also modifies partition table, is it a wiper?

The RedBoot ransomware encrypts files on the infected computer, replaces the Master Boot Record and then modifies the partition table. Malware Blocker researcher discovered a new bootlocker ransomware, dubbed RedBoot, that encrypts files on the infected computer, replaces the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the system drive and then modifies the partition table. The experts noticed that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2017
Authors of Locky Ransomware are big fans Game of Thrones series

Researchers at PhishMe found the names of Game of Thrones show characters and other references into the script used to spread the Locky ransomware. The fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones has an amazing number of fans, including the authors of the Locky ransomware. The discovery was made by researchers at security firm PhishMe that found the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 129 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      400,000 UK consumers at risk after the Equifax data breach ·      Chrome will label Resources delivered via FTP as Not Secure ·      MAGENTO 2.0.16 and 2.1.9 security update fixes critical flaw in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2017
Massive HerbaLife spam campaign spreads a variant of Locky ransomware

Researchers spotted a new widespread ransomware campaign leveraging emails with malicious attachments using Herbalife branded messages. Researchers at security firm Barracuda have spotted a new widespread ransomware campaign leveraging emails with malicious attachments, some of them pretend to be sent by the l multi-level marketing nutrition company Herbalife. More than 20 million Herbalife branded emails were sent in a 24 hour […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2017
Passwords and much more for 540,000 SVR Tracking accounts leaked online

Login credentials for 540K records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking (aka Stolen Vehicle Records Tracking) have been leaked online. Another day, another data breach to report, login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking (aka Stolen Vehicle Records Tracking) have been leaked online. The incident […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2017
Retefe banking Trojan leverages EternalBlue exploit to infect Swiss users

Cyber criminals behind the Retefe banking Trojan have improved it by adding a new component that uses the NSA exploit EternalBlue. ETERNALBLUE is the alleged NSA exploit that made the headlines with DOUBLEPULSAR in the WannaCry attack and NotPetya massive attacks. ETERNALBLUE targets the SMBv1 protocol and it has become widely adopted in the community of malware developers. Investigations on WannaCry, for […]