Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2019
The Ukrainian police dismantled a bot farm involved in spam campaigns carried out through various services, including email and social networks. Cybercrime is a prolific business, criminal organizations continues to make profits with illegal activities in the cyberspace, but police are ready to contrast them. Cyber experts at the Ukrainian police dismantled a bot farm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2019
Dutch police seized a bulletproof hosting service in a major takedown, the infrastructure was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks. A joint operation conducted by the Netherlands’ National Criminal Investigation Department and National Cyber Security Center allowed to track down and seize five servers that were composing a cybercrime underground bulletproof […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. Zendesk software is currently used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
Researcher discovered a double-free vulnerability in WhatsApp for Android that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable device. A security researcher that goes online with the moniker Awakened discovered a double-free vulnerability in WhatsApp for Android and demonstrated how to leverage on it to remotely execute arbitrary code on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
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
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
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
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’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
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 […]
