Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2019
Ten hospitals in Alabama and Australia have been hit with ransomware attacks

A new wave of ransomware attacks hit US and Australian hospitals and health service providers causing the paralysis of their systems. Several hospitals and health service providers from the U.S. and Australia were hit by ransomware attacks that forced the administrators to shut part of their IT infrastructure. “Ten hospitals—three in Alabama and seven in […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2019
A new Adwind variant involved in attacks on US petroleum industry

Adwind is back, a new variant of the popular RAT is targeting US petroleum industry entities with new advanced features. A new variant of the popular Adwind RAT (aka jRAT, AlienSpy, and JSocket) is targeting entities in the US petroleum industry. The new variant implements advanced features such as multi-layer obfuscation. The malware is distributed via a […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2019
Hackers breached one of Comodo Forums, 245,000 users impacted

The ITarian Forum, the Comodo discussion board and support forums, has been hacked and data belonging to nearly 245,000 registered users were exposed. Hackers breached the ITarian Forum, the Comodo discussion board and support forums, accessing login credentials of nearly 245,000 users registered with the Comodo Forums websites. Comodo has not specified which of its […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2019
Gucci IOT Bot Discovered Targeting European Region

Security Labs discovered a new IOT bot named “GUCCI”. It seems like the IOT botnet is named after an Italian luxury brand of fashion and leather goods. Analysis The discovery came to exist during our reconnaissance and intelligence collection process.  The IOT threat detection engine picked the infection IP has shown below hosting number of bins […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2019
Tridium Niagara framework affected by 2 flaws in BlackBerry QNX OS

Tridium’s Niagara product is affected by two vulnerabilities in BlackBerry’s QNX operating system for embedded devices. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of two vulnerabilities in Tridium’s Niagara product that reside in the BlackBerry’s QNX operating system for embedded devices. The flaws could be exploited by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2019
eGobbler ‘s malvertising campaign hijacked over 1 billion ad impressions

A recently observed a malvertising campaign carried out by a threat group dubbed eGobbler that hijacked roughly 1.16 billion ad impressions. Researchers at Confiant observed a malvertising campaign carried out by a threat actor dubbed eGobbler hijacked roughly 1.16 billion ad impressions to redirect victims to websites hosting malicious payloads. The campaign was observed between August 1 […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2019
A new critical flaw in Exim exposes email servers to remote attacks

Exim maintainers released an urgent security update to address a critical security flaw that could allow a remote attacker to potentially execute malicious code on targeted servers. Exim maintainers released an urgent security update, Exim version 4.92.3, to address a critical security vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to crash or potentially execute malicious code on […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2019
Exclusive: MalwareMustDie analyzes a new IoT malware dubbed Linux/ AirDropBot

After 2 years of waiting, MalwareMustDie returns with an excellent page of malware analysis of a new IoT malware: Linux/AirDropBot. Yes, I have to confess, it was hard to wait all this time, but the reward it was worth it: unixfreaxjp is return, with a new, great page of reverse engeeniring published on the MalwareMustDie […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2019
Phishers continue to abuse Adobe and Google Open Redirects

Adobe and Google Open Redirects Abused by Phishing Campaigns Experts reported that phishing campaigns are leveraging Google and Adobe open redirects to bypass spam filters and redirect users to malicious sites. Phishers are abusing Google and Adobe open redirects to bypass spam filters and redirect users to malicious sites. Crooks abuse Google and Adobe services […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 233

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. Once again thank you! 0patch will provide micropatches for Windows […]