Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2020
Voter information for 4,934,863 Georgians has been published on a hacker forum over the weekend. According to the data breach notification service Under the Breach, on Saturday a file containing voter information for more than 4.9 million Georgians, including deceased citizens, has been published on a hacking forum. Georgia has 3.7 million citizens, but the voting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2020
Security experts uncovered a new Coronavirus-themed phishing campaign, the messages inform recipients that they have been exposed to the virus. Experts continue to spot Coronavirus-themed attack, a new phishing campaign uses messages that pretend to be from a local hospital informing the victims they have been exposed to the virus and that they need urgently […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2020
In this post, I decided to share the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from March 22 to March 28, 2020. Threat actors exploit the interest in the COVID19 outbreak while infections increase worldwide, experts are observing new campaigns on a daily bases. Below a list of attacks detected this week. March 23 – COVID19-themed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2020
The FIN7 APT group has been targeting businesses with malicious USB drives and Teddy Bears sent to the victims, the FBI warns. The FBI is warning of a new wave of attacks carried out by the FIN7 APT group that is sending to the victims devices acting as a keyboard (HID Emulator USB) when plugged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2020
Experts discovered an easily exploitable heap-based buffer overflow flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-10245, that exists in the CODESYS web server. A critical heap-based buffer overflow flaw in a web server for the CODESYS automation software for engineering control systems could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to crash a server or execute arbitrary code. CODESYS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2020
Experts from Qihoo 360’s NetLab recently spotted two zero-day campaigns targeting DrayTek enterprise-grade networking devices. Since December 2019, researchers from Qihoo 360 observed two different attack groups that are employing two zero-days exploits to take over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside corporate networks. While Netlab360 has found about ~100,000 devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2020
AMD admitted that a hacker has stolen files related to some of its graphics products, but it downplayed the potential impact of the hack. AMD admitted that a hacker that goes online with the moniker “Palesa” has stolen source code files related to some of its graphics products, but it downplayed the potential impact of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2020
Google announced to have warned users of almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks during 2019. Google shared data on alerts related to state-sponsored attacks, the tech giant revealed that it issued almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks to its users during 2019. The number of alerts decreased by 25% […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2020
Researchers warn of a security flaw recently addressed in the WPvivid Backup Plugin that could be exploited to obtain all files of a WordPress website. WebARX experts warn of a missing authorization check recently addressed in the WPvivid Backup Plugin that could be exploited to obtain all files of a WordPress website. “There is a missing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2020
Researchers at Group-IB observed new financially motivated attacks in Western Europe traced to Russian-speaking threat actors. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has detected successful attacks in Western Europe carried out in late January 2020 traced to Russian-speaking threat actors. At least two companies operating in pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors have […]
