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Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2019

Symantec uncovered the link between China-Linked Thrip and Billbug groups

The China-linked APT group Thrip is continuing to target entities in Southeast Asia even after its activity was uncovered by Symantec. Experts at Symantec first exposed the activity of the Chinese-linked APT Thrip in 2018, now the security firm confirms that cyber espionage group has continued to carry out attacks in South East Asia. In June […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2019

Wikipedia suffered intermittent outages as a result of a malicious attack

The popular free online encyclopedia Wikipedia was not reachable following what it has described as a “malicious attack”. Popular online reference website Wikipedia went down in several countries after the server of the Wikimedia Foundation that host it were hit by a “massive” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The news of intermittent outages was […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2019

China-linked APT3 was able to modify stolen NSA cyberweapons

China-linked APT3 stole cyberweapons from the NSA and reverse engineered them to create its arsenal. In 2010, security firm FireEye identified the Pirpi Remote Access Trojan (RAT) which exploited a then 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. FireEye named the threat group APT3 which has also been described as TG-0100, Buckeye, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2019

Belarusian authorities seized XakFor, one of the largest Russian-speaking hacker sites

Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Belarusian police have seized and shutdown XakFor, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet. Belarusian police have seized the servers of XakFor (xakfor[.]net), a popular hacking forum a place frequented by hackers, malware authors, scammers and cybercriminals. The news was first reported by the Belarusian news outlet […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2019

Security Affairs newsletter Round 230

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! Cisco addresses CVE-2019-12643 critical flaw in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2019

Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost over $37 Million following BEC attack

Toyota Boshoku Corporation announced that one of its European subsidiaries lost more than $37 million due to a business email compromise (BEC) attack. Toyota Boshoku Corporation is a Japanese automotive component manufacturer, it is a member of the Toyota Group of companies. Toyota Boshoku Corporation has announced that one of its European subsidiaries lost more than $37 million following a business […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2019

Experts found Joker Spyware in 24 apps in the Google Play store

Security experts at Google have removed from Google Play 24 apps because they were infected with a new spyware tracked as “the Joker.” Google has removed from Google Play 24 apps because they were infected with a new spyware tracked as “the Joker.” The spyware is able to steal SMS messages, contact lists and device […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2019

Google report on iPhone hack created ‘False Impression,’ states Apple

Apple replied to Google about the recent report suggesting iPhones may have been hacked as part of a long-running hacking campaign. Apple criticized the report recently published by Google that claims that iPhones may have been hacked by threat actors as part of a long-running hacking campaign. Apple defines the report as inaccurate and misleading. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2019

Experts add a BlueKeep exploit module to MetaSploit

Maintainers of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing framework have added a public exploit module for the BlueKeep Windows flaw. There is a surprise for Metasploit users, maintainers of the open-source penetration testing framework have added a public exploit module for the BlueKeep Windows flaw. The BlueKeep vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-0708, impacts the Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and was addressed by Microsoft […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2019

CVE-2019-15846 Exim mail server flaw allows Remote Code Execution

A security flaw in Exim mail servers could be exploited by local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The Exim development team has addressed a vulnerability in Exim mail server, tracked as CVE-2019-15846, that could be exploited by local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The vulnerability […]

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Symantec uncovered the link between China-Linked Thrip and Billbug groups

Wikipedia suffered intermittent outages as a result of a malicious attack

China-linked APT3 was able to modify stolen NSA cyberweapons

Belarusian authorities seized XakFor, one of the largest Russian-speaking hacker sites

Security Affairs newsletter Round 230

Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost over $37 Million following BEC attack

Experts found Joker Spyware in 24 apps in the Google Play store

Google report on iPhone hack created ‘False Impression,’ states Apple

Experts add a BlueKeep exploit module to MetaSploit

CVE-2019-15846 Exim mail server flaw allows Remote Code Execution

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