Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · Crooks used a KilllDisk wiper in an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2018
This week, security experts observed a surge in port 8000 scan activity, researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab determined that the unusual activity was associated with Satori IoT botnet. Experts from Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered that the author of the Satori botnet have integrated a the proof-of-concept (PoC) code for the XionMai web server software package after it was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2018
Researchers uncovered a new malware campaign spreading a clipboard hijacker dubbed ClipboardWalletHijacker that has already infected over 300,000 computers. Security researchers from Qihoo 360 Total Security have spotted a new malware campaign spreading a clipboard hijacker, tracked as ClipboardWalletHijacker, that has already infected over 300,000 computers. Most of the victims are located in Asia, mainly China. “Recently, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2018
The Europol announced that several French nationals were arrested in the past year on suspicion of being involved with notorious Rex Mundi crime gang. Another success of the Europol made the headlines, the European police announced that several French nationals were arrested in the past year on suspicion of being involved with notorious hacker group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2018
The GitHub account of the Syscoin cryptocurrency was compromised by hackers that replaced the official Syscoin Windows client with a tainted version. The Syscoin clients allow users to mine Syscoin cryptocurrency or manage Syscoin funds. The other versions in the v3.0.4.1 release were not replaced, this means that Mac and Linux clients were not replaced by the hackers. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2018
Trend Micro spotted a new attack relying on weaponized Word documents and PowerShell scripts that appears related to the MuddyWater APT. Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new attack relying on weaponized Word documents and PowerShell scripts that appears related to the MuddyWater cyber-espionage campaign. The first MuddyWater campaign was observed in late 2017, then researchers from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2018
A new vulnerability involving side channel speculative execution on Intel chips, known as LazyFP, has been announced and assigned CVE-2018-3665. A new vulnerability tracked as LazyFP (CVE-2018-3665) involving side channel speculative execution affects Intel CPUs, like previous ones it could be exploited by hackers to access sensitive information from the affected system. The vulnerability was discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2018
GnuPG 2.2.8 released earlier this month addresses the CVE-2018-12020 vulnerability, dubbed SigSpoof, affecting GnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools, and python-gnupg. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP). GnuPG allows users to encrypt and sign data and communications. GnuPG version 2.2.8 released earlier this month addresses the CVE-2018-12020 vulnerability, dubbed SigSpoof, affecting GnuPG, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2018
Cyber criminal organizations and state-sponsored hackers continue to use Exploit kits to compromise targets world worldwide if the use of Exploit kits is decreased across the recent months, some of them were improved by adding the code to exploit recently discovered Flash and Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerabilities. “Since both Flash and the VBScript engine are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2018
A China-linked APT group, LuckyMouse, Emissary Panda, APT27 and Threat Group 3390, has targeted a national data center in Central Asia. The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S. defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide. In March 2018, security experts at Kaspersky Lab have observed an attack powered by the […]
