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Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2018
A North Korea-linked APT group, tracked by experts at industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos as Covellite, has stopped targeting US organizations. Anyway, the group, that is believed to be linked to the notorious Lazarus APT group, is continuing to target organizations in Europe and East Asia. The group has been around at least since 2017 and is still active, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2018
According to the security experts at Imperva firm, three open Redis servers out of four are infected with malware. The discovery is the result of analysis conducted by running Redis-based honeypot servers for some months. Since their initial report on the RedisWannaMine attack that propagates through open Redis and Windows servers, the experts from Imperva have discovered a new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2018
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
June 03, 2018
Cyber criminals recently added the code for the CVE-2018-8174 Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability to the infamous RIG exploit kit. Crooks recently added the code for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability to the infamous RIG exploit kit. The Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-8174, was first discovered a few weeks ago, it affects VBScript implemented in Internet Explorer and Microsoft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2018
Researchers at ThreatPress firm discovered security vulnerabilities in ten WordPress plugins developed by Multidots, a company for e-commerce websites. The vulnerable plugins are available on theWordPress.org and implement a set of features for WooCommerce installations that allow admins to manage their online shops, nearly 20,000 WordPress installs currently use them. “Recently our research team found serious security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2018
Experts from security firms GreyNoise Intelligence and JASK believe that the threat actor behind the VPNFilter is now attempting to resume the botnet with a new wave of infections. A week ago security experts and law enforcement bodies reported the existence of a huge Russia-linked botnet tracked as VPNFilter. The botnet infected over 500,000 routers and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2018
A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Zhejiang University has devised a method to cause physical damage to hard drives by using sonic and ultrasonic signals. An attacker just needs to play ultrasonic sounds through a built-in speaker of a target computer or by using a speaker in its proximity. The principle is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2018
The Visa card payment system is suffering a widespread outage across Europe, millions of users were unable to make payments using their cards. Shoppers and travelers were unable to make payments with their cards since at around 2.30pm on Friday across Europe. At the time of writing, Visa confirmed the widespread problems but did not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2018
Cybercriminals continue to improve the infamous Mirai botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities, experts warn new dangerous variant will appear in the wild. According to Netscout’s Arbor Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT), cybercriminals continue to improve the dreaded Mirai IoT botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities. The time to market of new Mirai botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2018
The website of the events ticketing company Ticketfly was shut down after a hacker who calls himself “IsHaKdZ” compromised it. The hacker defaced the Ticketfly website with a picture of Guy Fawkes and a warning that read “Your Security Down im Not Sorry.” The attacker also published a yandex.com email account along with the following message: […]
