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Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 167 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      Crooks used a KilllDisk wiper in an […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2018
Former GCHQ chief Hannigan warns of Russia’s aggressive approach to the cyberspace

According to former GCHQ chief, the recently discovered VPNFilter botnet is the demonstration that Russia appears to be live-testing cyberattacks. Former GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan has warned that the availability of hacking tools in the main marketplaces is rapidly changing the threat landscape. Hannigan served as the director of the UK intelligence agency between November 2014 until January 2017. Threat actors have an […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2018
Russia-linked Sofacy APT group adopts new tactics and tools in last campaign

Sofacy APT group (APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium) continues to operate and thanks to rapid and continuously changes of tactics the hackers are able to remain under the radar. According to experts from Palo Alto Networks, the hackers also used new tools in recent attacks, recently the APT group has shifted focus in their interest, from NATO member […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 165 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      A bug in T-Mobile site allowed anyone see any customers account details ·      […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 164 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      Experts propose a new variation of the Spectre attack to recover data from […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2018
The Pentagon bans Huawei and ZTE phones from stores on military bases

The Pentagon is ordering retail outlets on US military bases to stop selling Huawei and ZTE products due to unacceptable security risk they pose. Smartphones manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE are banned by US Military, the decision was taken by the Pentagon. The Pentagon is ordering retail outlets on US military bases to stop selling […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 149 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      GandCrab, a new ransomware-as-a-service emerges from Russian crime underground ·      More than 1 million worth of ETH stolen from Bee Token ICO Participants with phishing emails ·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 148 […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 148 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      Attackers behind Cloudflare_solutions Keylogger are back, 2000 WordPress sites already infected ·      Download URLs for two packages of the phpBB forum software were compromised ·      Iran-linked APT OilRig target IIS Web Servers […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2018
Trend Micro spotted a malvertising campaign abusing Google’s DoubleClick to deliver Coinhive Miner

Trend Micro uncovered a spike in the number of Coinhie miners over the past few days, including Coinhive, apparently linked to Google’s DoubleClick ads that are proposed on YouTube and other sites. The number of cyber-attacks against cryptocurrencies is increased due to a rapid increase in the value of currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2017
Financially motivated attacks reveal the interests of the Lazarus APT Group

Researchers at security firm Proofpoint collected evidence of the significant interest of the Lazarus APT group in cryptocurrencies, the group’s arsenal of tools, implants, and exploits is extensive and under constant development. Researchers at security firm Proofpoint collected evidence of the significant interest of the Lazarus APT group in cryptocurrencies. The North Korea-Linked hackers launched several multistage attacks that […]