Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2019
German company Pilz, one of the world’s biggest producers of automation tools is still down after getting infected by ransomware more than a week ago. German firm Pilz was still down after getting infected by the BitPaymer ransomware more than a week ago, on October 13, 2019. “Since Sunday, October 13, 2019, all servers and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2019
A vulnerability in the Trend Micro Anti-Threat Toolkit (ATTK) can be exploited by attackers to run malware on targets’ Windows systems. The security expert and bug-hunter John “hyp3rlinx” Page discovered an arbitrary code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-9491, in the Trend Micro Anti-Threat Toolkit. Trend Micro ATTK allows analyzing malware issues and clean infections. It can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2019
NordVPN and TorGuard VPN firms were hacked, threat actors leaked the private keys used to secure their web servers and VPN configuration files. Hackers have breached the systems used by NordVPN and TorGuard VPN companies and leaked the private keys used to secure their web servers and VPN configuration files. The information belonging to the NordVPN company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2019
Czech police and intelligence services have identified a Russian espionage network operating having a nerve center in its Prague embassy. Czech police and intelligence services have dismantled a Russian espionage network operating that was operating via its Prague embassy. The officials were helped by peers at the National Organised Crime Centre (NCOZ). According to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2019
The popular security firm Avast disclosed today a security breach that impacted its internal network accessed via a compromised VPN profile. The security firm Avast disclosed today a security breach that impacted its internal network, according to a statement published by the company, the intent of the hackers was to carry out a supply chain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2019
A joint UK and US investigation has revealed that the Russian cyber espionage group Turla carried out cyber attacks masqueraded as Iranian hackers. According to the Financial Times, a joint UK and US investigation revealed that Russia-linked cyberespionage group Turla conducted several cyber attacks in more than 35 countries masqueraded as Iranian hackers. The use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. A new Mac malware dubbed Tarmac has been distributed via […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2019
Threat actors leverage malicious plugins that hide in plain sight to backdoor WordPress websites and to use them for brute-forcing other sites. The use of fake WordPress plugins installed by hackers is not a novelty, recently at Sucuri observed multiple infections aimed at installing fake plugins with backdoor capabilities. Attackers use automated tools to create malicious WordPress […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2019
A researcher discovered a critical Linux vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-17666, that could be exploited to fully compromise vulnerable machines. Nico Waisman, principal security engineer at Github, discovered a critical Linux flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-17666, that could be exploited by attackers to fully compromise vulnerable machines. The vulnerability affects Linux versions through 5.3.6, according to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2019
Over 600 million UC Browser and UC Browser Mini Android users have been exposed to man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks. More than 600 million users of the popular UC Browser and UC Browser Mini Android apps have been exposed to man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks by downloading an Android Package Kit (APK) from a third party server over unprotected channels. […]
