Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2021
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT hides malicious code within BMP image to avoid detection

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is abusing bitmap (.BMP) image files in a recent spear-phishing campaign targeting entities in South Korea.  Experts from Malwarebytes have uncovered a spear-phishing attack conducted by a North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group that obfuscated a malicious code within a bitmap (.BMP) image file. The malicious code within the bitmap image […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2021
Watch out, hackers can take over your Cosori Smart Air Fryer

Watch out, hackers could breach into your house by exploiting two remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the Cosori Smart Air Fryer. Security experts from Cisco Talos have found two remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the Cosori Smart Air Fryer. The Cosori Smart Air Fryer is an appliance with smart capabilities that cooks food […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2021
WeChat users targeted by hackers using recently disclosed Chromium exploit

Threat actors used the Chrome exploit publicly disclosed last week in attacks aimed at WeChat users in China, researchers warn. China-based firm Qingteng Cloud Security, reported that threat actors weaponized the recently disclosed Chrome exploit to target WeChat users in China. According to the researchers, the attacks only targeted users of the WeChat Windows app. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2021
Experts demonstrated how to hack a utility and take over a smart meter

Researchers from the FireEye’s Mandiant team have breached the network of a North American utility and turn off one of its smart meters. Over the years, the number of attacks against ICS/SCADA systems used by industrial organizations worldwide has rapidly increased. Many security firms highlighted the risks related to attacks targeting OT networks used in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2021
Codecov was a victim of a supply chain attack

The software company Codecov suffered a security breach, threat actors compromised the supply chain of one of its tools. A new supply chain attack made the headlines, the software company Codecov recently disclosed a major security breach after a threat actor compromised its infrastructure to inject a credentials harvester code to one of its tools […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2021
6 out of 11 EU agencies running Solarwinds Orion software were hacked

SolarWinds supply chain attack also impacted six European Union institutions, European Commissioner for Budget and Administration confirmed. European Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn confirmed the hack of some EU agencies as result of the SolarWinds supply chain attack in a response to a question filed by an EU Parliament member in February 2021. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2021
US Gov sanctions Russia and expels 10 diplomats over SolarWinds hack

The U.S. and UK attributed with “high confidence” the recently disclosed supply chain attack on SolarWinds to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). The U.S. and U.K. attributed with “high confidence” the supply chain attack on SolarWinds to operatives working for Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) (aka APT29, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes). The UK, US […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2021
Cyber thieves move $760 million stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex heist

Over $760 million worth of Bitcoin that were stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 were moved to new accounts. More than $760 million worth of Bitcoin, stolen from Asian cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016, were moved on Wednesday to new accounts. On August 2016, the Asian Bitfinex suffered a security breach that resulted in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2021
For the second time in a week, a Google Chromium zero-day released online

For the second time in a week, a Chromium zero-day remote code execution exploit code has been released on Twitter, multiple browsers impacted. A new Chromium zero-day remote code execution exploit has been released on Twitter this week, like the previous one that affects current versions of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and likely other Chromium-based browsers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2021
WhatsApp flaws could have allowed hackers to remotely hack mobile devices

WhatsApp addressed two security vulnerabilities in its app for Android that could have been exploited to remotely hack the victim’s device. WhatsApp recently addressed two security vulnerabilities in its app for Android that could have been exploited by remote attackers to execute malicious code on a target device and potentially eavesdrop on communications. The vulnerabilities […]