Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2020
Yomi Hunter Catches the CurveBall

Yomi implements detection for CurveBall exploits and also supports CVE-2020-0601 exploit detection even for signed Powershell modules.  The recent CurveBall vulnerability shook the Info-Sec community worldwide: a major vulnerability reported directly by the US National Security Agency. Such uncommon vulnerability reporter alerted the whole Industry, CVE-2020-0601 quickly conquered most of the headlines.  The reason for this unusual outreach […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2020
US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach

The US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson has disclosed a data breach that affected its customers. The US-based children’s clothing maker and online retailer Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach, attackers planted an e-skimmer on its e-commerce platform. Like other Magecart attacks, crooks compromised the online store and injected a JavaScript code into checkout pages to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2020
Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate information. Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. According to the company, attackers did not obtain sensitive information about defense contracts. The breach was detected almost eight months ago, on June 28, 2019, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2020
NATO will send a counter-hybrid team to Montenegro to face Russia’s threat

The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee announced that the alliance has sent a counter-hybrid team to Montenegro to face Russian hybrid attacks. Last week in Brussels, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (MC), Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, announced the effort of the Alliance in facing Russian hybrid attacks. The term “Hybrid warfare” refers to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2020
Citrix releases permanent fixes for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in ADC 11.1 and 12.0

Citrix addressed the actively exploited CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliances. Citrix has released security patches to address actively exploited CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability 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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2020
WP Database Reset WordPress plugin flaws allow website takeover

The WP Database Reset WordPress plugin is affected by an “easily exploitable” vulnerability that can allow attackers to take over vulnerable sites.  Security experts from Wordfence discovered two security vulnerabilities in the WP Database Reset WordPress plugin that can van be used to take over the vulnerable websites. The WordPress Database Reset plugin allows users to reset the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2020
JhoneRAT uses Google Drive, Twitter, ImgBB, and Google Forms to target countries in Middle East

Researchers from Cisco Talos discovered a new Trojan named JhoneRAT that was used in targeted attacks against entities in the Middle East. A new Trojan named JhoneRAT appeared in the threat landscape, it is selectively attacking targets in the Middle East by checking keyboard layouts. The malware targets a very specific set of Arabic-speaking countries, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2020
Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online

The availability online of a new collection of Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers, routers, and IoT devices made the headlines. A hacker has published online a massive list of Telnet credentials for more than 515,000 servers and smart devices, including home routers. This is the biggest leak of Telnet passwords even reported. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2020
Hackers patch Citrix servers to deploy their own backdoor

Attacks on Citrix servers are intensifying, one of the threat actors behind them is patching them and installing its own backdoor to lock out other attackers. Security experts are monitoring a spike in the number of attacks against Citrix servers after that researchers announced the availability online of proof-of-concept exploits for the CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix NetScaler […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2020
Microsoft provides mitigation for actively exploited CVE-2020-0674 IE Zero-Day

Microsoft published a security advisory to warn of an Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2020-0674) that is currently being exploited in the wild. Microsoft has published a security advisory (ADV200001) that includes mitigations for a zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-0674, affecting Internet Explorer. The tech giant confirmed that the CVE-2020-0674 zero-day […]