Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2020
Office 365 phishing campaign uses redirector URLs and detects sandboxes to evade detection

Microsoft is tracking an ongoing Office 365 phishing campaign aimed at enterprises that is able to detect sandbox solutions and evade detection. Microsoft is tracking an ongoing Office 365 phishing campaign that is targeting enterprises, the attacks are able to detect sandbox solutions and evade detection. “We’re tracking an active credential phishing attack targeting enterprises […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2020
Large-scale campaign targets vulnerable Epsilon Framework WordPress themes

Hackers are scanning the Internet for WordPress websites with Epsilon Framework themes installed to launch Function Injection attacks. Experts at the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team uncovered a large-scale wave of attacks targeting reported Function Injection vulnerabilities in themes using the Epsilon Framework. Below a list of themes and related versions that are vulnerable to the above […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2020
Chinese APT FunnyDream targets a South East Asian government

Researchers spotted a new China-linked APT, tracked as FunnyDream that already infected more than 200 systems across Southeast Asia. Security experts at BitDefender have uncovered a new China-linked cyber espionage group, tracked as FunnyDream that has already infected more than 200 systems across Southeast Asia over the past two years. According to Kaspersky Lab, FunnyDream […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2020
Unixfreaxjp at #R2CON2020 presented shellcode basics for radare2

Shellcode play an essential role in cyber attacks, the popular expert Unixfreaxjp explained how to utilize radare2 for variation of shellcode analysis Shellcode is having an important part in cyber intrusion activities and mostly spotted to be executed during the process/thread injection or during the exploitation of memory space that mostly related to a vulnerability. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2020
246869 Windows systems are still vulnerable to the BlueKeep flaw

In May 2019, Microsoft disclosed the BlueKeep vulnerability, more than a year later over 245,000 Windows systems still remain unpatched. Over a year ago Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 addressed nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including the BlueKeep flaw. The issue is a remote code execution flaw in Remote Desktop Services (RDS) that can be exploited by […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2020
VoltPillager: Hardware-based fault injection attacks against Intel SGX enclaves

Boffins devised a new attack, dubbed VoltPillager, that can break the confidentiality and integrity of Intel SGX enclaves by controlling the CPU core voltage. A group of six researchers from the University of Birmingham has devised a new attack technique, dubbed VoltPillager, that can break the confidentiality and integrity of Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2020
“At-Risk Meeting Notifier Zoom” feature alerts meeting organizers of Zoombombing risk

The popular video conferencing application Zoom implemented the new “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” feature to warn of Zoombombing threat. Zoom announced the launch a new feature dubbed “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” to warn conference organizers of potential Zoombombing attacks. The feature scans the web for links to Zoom meetings that have been posted online and warn organizers […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2020
Lazarus malware delivered to South Korean users via supply chain attacks

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is behind new campaigns against South Korean supply chains that leverage stolen security certificates.  Security experts from ESET reported that North-Korea-linked Lazarus APT (aka HIDDEN COBRA) is behind cyber campaigns targeting South Korean supply chains. According to the experts the nation-state actors leverage stolen security certificates from two separate, legitimate South […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2020
New skimmer attack uses WebSockets to evade detection

Experts spotted a new skimmer attack that used an alternative technique to exfiltrate payment information from payment cards. Researchers from Akamai discovered a new skimmer attack that is targeting several e-stores with a new technique to exfiltrate data. Threat actors are using fake credit card forum and WebSockets to steal the financial and personal information of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2020
New Jupyter information stealer appeared in the threat landscape

Russian-speaking threat actors have been using a piece of malware, dubbed Jupyter malware, to steal information from their victims. Researchers at Morphisec have spotted Russian-speaking threat actors that have been using a piece of .NET infostealer, tracked as Jupyter, to steal information from their victims. The Jupyter malware is able to collect data from multiple […]