Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2019
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! Cisco addresses CVE-2019-12643 critical flaw in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2019
600,000 GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456’ Avast researchers found at least 600,000 GPS trackers manufactured by a Chinese vendor that were exposed online with a default password of “123456.” Researchers from Avast discovered at least 600,000 GPS trackers that were exposed online with a default password of “123456.” The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2019
Experts at SEC Consult discovered several security issues in various Zyxel devices that allow to hack them via unauthenticated DNS requests. Security researchers at SEC Consult discovered multiple vulnerabilities in various Zyxel devices, including hardcoded credentials and issues that could allow to hack them via unauthenticated DNS requests. The first issue is an information disclosure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2019
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Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2019
Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar reported that a cryptocurrency miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices it now targeting Intel systems. The popular researcher Larry Cashdollar, from Akamai SIRT, announced in exclusive to The Register, that he observed a miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices targeting Intel systems. The researchers revealed that one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2019
Researchers from WootCloud Labs have uncovered a new IoT botnet named Ares that is targeting Android-based devices. Experts from WootCloud Labs have spotted a new IoT botnet tracked as Ares that is targeting Android-based devices that have a debug port exposed online. Experts noticed that most of the devices targeted by the bot are Android […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2019
Security expert discovered multiple flaws in 4G routers manufactured by several companies, some of them could allow attackers to take over the devices. G Richter, a security researcher at Pen Test Partners discovered multiple vulnerabilities 4G routers manufactured by different vendors. The issue includes information leak flaws and code execution vulnerabilities. The expert presented the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs 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! DealPly adware abuses reputation services to remain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2019
The operators behind the recently discovered Echobot botnet added tens of new exploits to infect a broad range of systems worldwide. In June, experts at PaloAlto Networks uncovered a new botnet, dubbed Echobot that is based on the dreaded Mirai botnet. At the time of its discovery, operators added 8 new exploits, but a few weeks later the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2019
The STRONTIUM Russia-linked APT group is compromising common IoT devices to gain access to several corporate networks. Researchers at Microsoft observed the Russia-linked APT group STRONTIUM abusing IoT devices to gain access to several corporate networks. The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28, Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, and Sednit) has been active since at least 2007 and it has […]
