Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
The Nmap project announced the release of Nmap 7.50, the first big release since last December that has hundreds of improvements. Nmap 7.50 is the new release of the popular the Network Mapper, the previous release dates back December 2016 and the new one brings hundreds of improvements. Nmap 7.50 includes the Npcap packet capturing driver […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
The number of fileless malware continues to increase, recently security researchers spotted a new Fileless Ransomware dubbed Sorebrect. Sorebrect is able to inject malicious code into a legitimate system process (svchost.exe) on a targeted system and it terminates its binary to evade detection. It also make hard forensics analysis by deleting the affected systemâs event logs using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
A study conducted by the security firm Rapid7 revealed that millions of devices remain exposed to cyber attacks via SMB, Telnet, RDP, and other types of improper configurations. Rapid7 published the second report National Exposure Index that provides Internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide information about the global exposure of devices. The researchers scanned the Internet for improperly configured services, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
Researchers at the security firm Yoroi have discovered a False Flag Attack on Multi-Stage Delivery of Malware to Italian Organisations. Everything started from a well edited Italian language email (given to me from a colleague of mine, thank you Luca!) reaching out many Italian companies. The Italian language email had a weird attachment: ordine_065.js (it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2017
Microsoft released the June 2017 Patch Tuesday to address more than 90 security flaws, including two critical RCE that have been exploited in attacks. Microsoft released June Patch Tuesday updates that address more than 90 vulnerabilities, including two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities that have been exploited in attacks. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8464, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2017
On Tuesday, Adobe released updates for Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Captivate and Digital Editions addressing a total of 20 vulnerabilities. Some vulnerabilities fixed by Adobe are critical remote code execution issue, the last release, version 26.0.0.126, addressed nine flaws in Flash Player. The vulnerabilities were tracked as CVE-2017-3075, CVE-2017-3081, CVE-2017-3083, CVE-2017-3084, CVE-2017-3076, CVE-2017-3077, CVE-2017-3078, CVE-2017-3079, and CVE-2017-3082. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2017
Researcher Luca Bongiorni has detailed the procedure to weaponize a new mouse with WHID Injector to show you how to create malicious HID devices. Hello there! Finally, I had some spare time to Weaponize a new Mouse, in order to show you how easy is possible to create malicious HID devices. Materials Needed: WHID Injector […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2017
Israeli cyber spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmakers and discovered they were developing a laptop bomb to hit commercial air crafts, Israeli government spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmakers to discover they were developing a laptop bomb to blow up a commercial aircraft, the New York Times reported Monday. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2017
Companies operating Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have a special set of challenges to deal with. Which is the state of the art? The equipment was expected to be installed and left alone for a long time. Pressures to reduce operating costs led to this equipment being connected, and the easiest networking equipment to find was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2017
Researchers at antivirus firm ESET have discovered a new strain of malware, dubbed Industroyer, that appears to have been designed to target power grids. The experts published a detailed analysis of the malware, they speculated the malicious code has been involved in the December 2016 attack on an electrical substation in Ukraine. “Win32/Industroyer is a sophisticated piece […]
