Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2020
Cyber Threat Trends Dashboard

Marco Ramilli published the Cyber Threat Trends Dashboard, a useful tool that will allow us to better understand most active threats in real time. Introduction Information sharing is one of the most important activity that cybersecurity researchers do on daily basis. Thanks to “infosharing” activities it is possible to block or, in specific cases, to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2020
Fortinet removed hardcoded SSH keys and database backdoors from FortiSIEM

The vendor Fortinet has finally released security patches to remove the hardcoded SSH keys in Fortinet SIEM appliances. Fortinet has finally released security updates to remove the hardcoded SSH keys in Fortinet SIEM appliances. Recently Andrew Klaus, a security specialist from Cybera, discovered a hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet’s Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM that […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2020
Attacks on Citrix servers increase after the release of CVE-2019-19781 exploits

Citrix has released security patches for the recently disclosed CVE-2019-19781 flaw, but the number of attacks on vulnerable systems is increasing. Last week, Citrix addressed the actively exploited CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliances. While security researchers were warning of ongoing scans for Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2020
Aggah: How to run a botnet without renting a Server (for more than a year)

Experts from Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab have spotted new attack attempts directed to some Italian companies operating in the Retail sector linked to Aggah campaign. Introduction During the last year, we constantly kept track of the Aggah campaigns. We started deepening inside the Roma225 Campaign and went on with the RG Campaign, contributing to the joint effort to track the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2020
Which was the most common threat to macOS devices in 2019? Shlayer malware

Malware authors continue to show interest in macOS devices, Kaspersky experts confirmed that the Shlayer malware has been the most common threat to the macOS platform. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab revealed that the Shlayer malware was the most widespread macOS threat in 2019. In February, malware researchers at Carbon Black spotted a new strain […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2020
Operation Night Fury: Group-IB helps take down a cybergang behind the infection of hundreds of websites all over the world

More details emerged from the recently disclosed Operation Night Fury: Group-IB helps take down a cybergang behind the infection of hundreds of e-commerce. Operators of the JavaScript-sniffer family, dubbed «GetBilling» by Group-IB, were arrested in Indonesia. The arrest came as a result of a joint operation «Night Fury» initiated by INTERPOL’s ASEAN Cyber Capability Desk (ASEAN Desk) that involved Indonesian Cyber Police (BARESKRIM POLRI (Dittipidsiber)) and Group-IB’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2020
Mozilla banned hundreds of malicious Firefox add-ons over the last weeks

Mozilla is intensifying the efforts to protect its users, in the last couple of weeks, the security staff has banned 200 malicious Firefox add-ons. Over the past two weeks, Mozilla has reviewed and banned 197 Firefox add-ons because they were executing malicious code. The malicious Firefox add-ons were found stealing user data and for this […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2020
City of Potsdam offline following a cyberattack

The City of Potsdam suffered a major cyberattack that took down its servers earlier this week, but emergency services were not impacted. The German City of Potsdam has suffered a major cyberattack that took down its servers earlier this week, the good news is that emergency services, including the city’s fire department fully operational and payments […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2020
Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. According to ZDNet, the hackers involved in the attack against the Mitsubishi Electric have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan to infect company servers. This week, Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2020
For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks

The Greek government announced that a DDoS cyber attack hit the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries. Yesterday the Greek government announced that the official websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were hit by a […]