Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2018
WannaCry ransomware outbreak anniversary – According to researchers from ESET, the popularity of EternalBlue increase significantly over the past months. Exactly one year ago, on May 12, the WannaCry ransomware infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. The success of the malware was the use of the EternalBlue exploit that was stolen by Shadow Brokers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2018
Security experts devised a new attack technique dubbed Throwhammer that could be exploited by attackers to launch Rowhammer attack on a system in a LAN. A few days ago we discussed the GLitch attack that leverages graphics processing units (GPUs) to launch a remote Rowhammer attack against Android smartphones. Now security experts devised a new attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2018
Trello, when an error in the publishing strategy is able to put at risk the private data of a huge community of unaware users. A “Security enthusiastic” found a vulnerability in the Trello web management and now with a simple dork is possible to query to mine passwords from dozens of public Trello boards. Our […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2018
Security experts from the industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos warn of a threat actor tracked as Allanite has been targeting business and industrial control networks at electric utilities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dragos experts linked the campaigns conducted by the Dragonfly APT group and Dymalloy APT, aka Energetic Bear and Crouching Yeti, to a threat actors they […]
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 […]
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