Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2018
Security experts at Flashpoint confirmed the availability online for the source code of the TreasureHunter PoS malware since March. The researchers found evidence that the threat has been around since at least late 2014. TreasureHunt was first discovered by researchers at the SANS Institute who noticed the malware generating mutex names to evade detection. TreasureHunt enumerates the processes running on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2018
Developers of major operating systems and hypervisors misread documentation from Intel and introduced a the CVE-2018-8897 vulnerability into to their products. The development communities of major operating systems and hypervisors misread documentation from Intel and introduced a potentially serious vulnerability to their products. The CERT/CC speculates the root cause of the flaw is the developers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2018
Recently, the Advanced Threat Response Team of 360 Core Security Division detected an APT attack exploiting a 0-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-8174. Now the experts published a detailed analysis of the flaw. I Overview Recently, the Advanced Threat Response Team of 360 Core Security Division detected an APT attack exploiting a 0-day vulnerability and captured the world’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2018
Microsoft has released the May 2018 Patch Tuesday that addresses more than 60 vulnerabilities, including two Windows zero-day flaws that can be exploited for remote code execution and privilege escalation. Microsoft May 2018 Patch Tuesday includes security patches for 67 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days that have already been exploited in the wild by threat actors. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2018
The baseStriker attack technique allows to bypass anti-phishing filters by splitting and disguising a malicious link using a tag called the <base> URL tag. Security researchers at cloud security company Avanan have discovered a technique, dubbed baseStriker, used by threat actors in the wild to bypass the Safe Links security feature of Microsoft Office 365. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2018
Experts at vpnMentor released an unofficial patch for Zero-Days in Dasan GPON home routers manufactured by the company Dasan. Security experts at vpnMentor last week disclosed a couple of zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-10561 & CVE-2018-10562) in Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network GPON home routers manufactured by the company Dasan. The researchers have found a way to bypass the authentication to access the GPON home […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2018
Recently security experts discovered two critical vulnerabilities in the Drupal CMS (CVE-2018-7600 and CVE-2018-7602), and cybercriminals promptly attempted to exploit them in the wild. The hackers started using the exploits for the above vulnerabilities to compromise drupal installs, mostly cryptocurrency mining. It has been estimated that potentially over one million Drupal websites are vulnerable to cyber attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2018
Security researchers at VPNMentor conducted a comprehensive assessment on of a number of GPON home routers and discovered a Critical remote code vulnerability that could be exploited to gain full control over them. The researchers have found a way to bypass the authentication to access the GPON home routers (CVE-2018-10561). The experts chained this authentication bypass flaw with another command […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2018
Security experts at 401TRG, the threat research and analysis team at ProtectWise, have discovered links between several Chinese APT groups under the Winnti umbrella. The experts analyzed several campaigns conducted by the cyber espionage groups over the last years and associated their activities with the Chinese Government, in one case the nation-state actor was working from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2018
Last week, the European Central Bank has published the European framework for testing financial sector resilience to cyber attacks. The framework aims to simulate the effects of cyber attacks on critical systems in the banking industry in the European Union. The move is the response to the numerous cyberheists that hit the financial industry in the past […]
