Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2019
Czech Intelligence ‘s report attributes major cyber attack to China

The Czech Intelligence agency blames China for a major cyber attack that hit a key government institution in the Czech Republic in 2018. According to a report published by the NUKIB Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB), China carried out a major cyber attack on a key government institution in the Czech Republic […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2019
US Utilities Targeted with LookBack RAT in a new phishing campaign

Security experts at Proofpoint observed a new wave of phishing attacks aimed at US Utilities in an attempt to deliver the LookBack RAT. Security experts at Proofpoint have discovered a new series of phishing attacks targeting entities US utilities in an attempt to deliver the LookBack RAT. In early August, the expert reported that between […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2019
Hacker discloses details and PoC exploit code for unpatched 0Day in vBulletin

An anonymous hacker disclosed technical details and proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical zero-day remote code execution flaw in vBulletin. vBulletin is one of the most popular forum software, for this reason, the disclosure of a zero-day flaw affecting it could impact a wide audience. More than 100,000 websites online run on top of vBulletin. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2019
A new Fancy Bear backdoor used to target political targets

Security experts at ESET have uncovered a new campaign carried out by Russia-linked Fancy Bear APT group aimed at political targets. Security researchers at ESET have uncovered a new campaign carried out by Russia-linked Fancy Bear APT group (i.e. APT28, Sednit, Sofacy, Zebrocy, and Strontium) aimed at political targets. In the recent attacks, the hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2019
Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to fix Zero-day flaw exploited in the wild

Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to address a Zero-day memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer that has been exploited in attacks in the wild. Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in attacks in the wild. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-1367 is a memory corruption flaw that resides […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2019
Privilege Escalation flaw found in Forcepoint VPN Client for Windows

Security researcher Peleg Hadar of SafeBreach Labs discovered a privilege escalation flaw that impacts all versions of Forcepoint VPN Client for Windows except the latest release. Security expert Peleg Hadar of SafeBreach Labs discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-6145, that affects all versions of VPN Client for Windows except the latest release. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2019
TortoiseShell Group targets IT Providers in supply chain attacks

Symantec spotted a new threat actor, tracked as TortoiseShell, that is compromising IT providers to target their specific customers. Symantec researchers spotted a new threat group, tracked as TortoiseShell, that is compromising IT providers to target their specific customers. The group was first spotted in 2018, but experts speculate that it has been active for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 232

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! A bug in Instagram exposed user […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2019
0patch will provide micropatches for Windows 7 and Server 2008 after EoS

With the end-of-life of Windows 7 and Server 2008, their users will no more receive security patches, the only way to remain protected is to trust in micropatches. On January 14, 2020, support for Window 7, Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end, this means that users will no longer receive security updates. In order to address security […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2019
One of the hackers behind EtherDelta hack also involved in TalkTalk hack

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. In December 2017, the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted […]