Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2018
Roaming Mantis Malware Campaign Leverages Hacked Routers to Infect Android Users With Banking Trojan

According to experts at Kaspersky, the Roaming Mantis malware is designed for distribution through a simple, but very efficient trick based on DNS hijacking. According to experts at Kaspersky, the Roaming Mantis malware is designed for distribution through a simple, but very efficient trick based on DNS hijacking. Imagine a nefarious person swapped out your […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2018
Talos experts found many high severity flaws in Moxa EDR-810 industrial routers

Security experts at Cisco’s Talos group have discovered a total of 17 vulnerabilities in Moxa EDR-810 industrial routers manufactured by Moxa. The Moxa EDR-810 is an integrated industrial multiport router that implements firewall, NAT, VPN and managed Layer 2 switch capabilities. These devices are used in industrial environments to protect systems such as PLC and SCADA systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2018
Bitcoin web wallet addresses generated with a flawed library are exposed to brute-force attacks

Multiple vulnerabilities in the SecureRandom() function expose Bitcoin web wallet addresses generated by the flawed library to brute-force attacks. Old Bitcoin web wallet addresses generated in the browser or through JavaScript-based wallet apps might be affected by a cryptographic vulnerability that could be exploited b attackers to steal funds. According to the experts, the popular  […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2018
Attackers exfiltrated a casino’s high-roller list through a connected fish tank

Nicole Eagan, the CEO of cybersecurity company Darktrace, revealed that is company investigated that hack of an unnamed casino that was breached via a thermometer in a lobby fish tank. Internet of things devices are enlarging our attack surface, smart devices are increasingly targeted by hackers in the wild. The case we are going to discuss demonstrate […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2018
UK GCHQ director confirmed major cyberattack on Islamic State

GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming announced this week that the U.K. has launched a major cyberattack on the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization. According to the spy chief, the GCHQ the attack was launched in collaboration with the U.K. Ministry of Defence and has distributed operations of the Islamic State. The UK intelligence believes this is the first […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2018
Malware researcher have dismantled the EITest Network composed of 52,000

Malware researchers from Abuse.ch, BrillantIT, and Proofpoint have sinkholed the control infrastructure behind EITest campaign and shut down it. Malware researchers from Abuse.ch, BrillantIT, and Proofpoint have sinkholed the control infrastructure behind EITest campaign that leveraged on a network of hacked servers exploited by crooks to distribute traffic (TDS). The network was used to redirect users to compromised domains hosting exploit kits, delivering […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2018
Are your Android devices updated? Researchers say maybe no

Probably you don’t know that many Android smartphone vendors fail to roll out Google’s security patches and updates exposing the users to severe risks. Researchers at Security Research Labs (SRL) that the problem also involves major vendors, including HTC, Huawei, and Motorola. In some cases, manufacturers roll out incomplete security patches leaving the devices vulnerable to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2018
Great Western Railway asks users to reset passwords due to a security breach

The British train company Great Western Rail announced it has suffered a security breach that affected at least 1,000 accounts out of more than a million. The company owned by the FirstGroup transport business runs trains between London, Penzance, and Worcester Great Western Rail is urging affected customers to change the password used to access the GWR.com portal, it also informed […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2018
Experts warn threat actors are scanning the web for Drupal installs vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2

After the publication of a working Proof-Of-Concept for Drupalgeddon2 on GitHub for “educational or information purposes,” experts started observing bad actors attempting to exploit the flaw. At the end of March, the Drupal Security Team confirmed that a “highly critical” vulnerability (dubbed Drupalgeddon2), tracked as CVE-2018-7600, was affecting Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the availability of security updates on […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2018
Experts uncovered a proxy botnet composed of over 65,000 routers exposed via UPnP protocol

Security researchers at Akamai have discovered a proxy botnet composed of more than 65,000 routers exposed to the Internet via the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. Crooks have compromised the devices of this multi-purpose proxy botnet to conduct a wide range of malicious activities, including spamming and phishing, click fraud, account takeover and credit card […]