Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2020
Why Russian APT Fancy Bear hacked the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma?

Russia-linked cyber-espionage group hacked the Ukrainian energy company Burisma at the center of the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump. The Russian cyberspies, operating under Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency (aka Fancy Bear) carried out a spear-phishing campaign in November aimed at accessing the email of Burisma Holdings employees. The attack was detailed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2020
Cisco addressed a high-severity bug in Webex that could allow Remote Code Execution

Tech giant Cisco has recently addressed two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Webex and IOS XE Software products. Cisco Systems has released security fixes for two high-severity vulnerabilities in its products, including a remote code execution flaw in the Webex video conferencing platform. The Webex flaw resides in the web-based management interface of Cisco Webex Video […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2020
China-linked APT40 group hides behind 13 front companies

A group of anonymous security researchers that calls itself Intrusion Truth have tracked the activity of a China-linked cyber–espionage group dubbed APT40. A group of anonymous security researchers that calls itself Intrusion Truth has discovered that a China-linked cyberespionage group, tracked as APT40, uses 13 front companies operating in the island of Hainan to recruit […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2020
Facebook quickly fixed a bug exploited in attacks that exposed Page Admins info

Facebook addressed last week a security flaw that exposed page admin accounts, the bug was exploited against several high-profile pages. Last week Facebook has addressed a security issue that exposed page admin accounts, the bug was exploited in attacks in the wild against several high-profile pages. The page admin accounts are anonymous unless the Page […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2020
Hacker that hit UK National Lottery in 2016 was sentenced to prison

The alleged hacker behind the credential stuffing attacks on UK National Lottery accounts has been sentenced to nine months in prison. Anwar Batson (29) of London has been sentenced to nine months in prison for fraud and four violations under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990. The sentence was announced by the UK’s National Crime Agency […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2020
New Bill prohibits intelligence sharing with countries using Huawei 5G equipment

Last week, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) introduced a bill that would ban intelligence sharing with countries that use Huawei 5G networks. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) has introduced this week a new bill that would ban the sharing of intelligence with countries that use Huawei equipment on their fifth-generation (5G) networks. Since November 2018, the US Government […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2020
MageCart attack hit Australia bushfire Donors

A new MageCart attack made the headlines, crooks installed a software skimmer on a website that collects donations for the victims of the Australia bushfires. Experts from Malwarebytes have discovered a new Magecart attack that compromised a website collecting donations for the victims of the Australia bushfires. Crooks planted a malicious script on the website […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2020
PoC exploits for Citrix ADC and Gateway CVE-2019-19781 flaw released online

Experts announced the availability online of proof-of-concept exploit code for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway servers. While security researchers were warning of ongoing scans for Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway) servers affected by the CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability, many experts are announcing the availability online of proof-of-concept exploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2020
Cable Haunt flaw exposes 200M+ Broadcom-based cable modems at remote hijacking

A flaw, dubbed Cable Haunt, in Broadcom’s cable modem firmware exposed as many as 200 million home broadband gateways in Europe alone, at risk of remote hijackings. Hundreds of millions of Broadcom-based cable modems are at risk of remote hijacking due to the presence of a vulnerability dubbed Cable Haunt, CVE-2019-19494. The flaw resides in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2020
CISA warns that Pulse Secure VPN issue CVE-2019-11510 is still exploited

The US DHS CISA agency is warning organizations that threat actors continue to exploit the CVE-2019-11510 Pulse Secure VPN vulnerability. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning organizations that attackers continue to exploit the well known Pulse Secure VPN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-11510. The CVE-2019-11510 flaw in Pulse Connect Secure […]