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Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2017
Kaspersky: Hackers used backdoored MS Office key-gen to steal NSA exploits

According to Kaspersky, the PC was hacked after the NSA employee installed a backdoored key generator for a pirated copy of Microsoft Office. More details emerge from the story of the hack of the Kaspersky antivirus that allowed Russian intelligence to stole secret exploits from the personal PC of the NSA staffer. The PC was […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2017
CSE Malware ZLab – Preliminary analysis of Bad Rabbit attack

We at the CSE Cybsec ZLab have conducted a preliminary analysis of the Bad Rabbit ransomware discovering interesting aspects of the attack. This is just the beginning of a complete report that we will release in the next days, but we believe our findings can be useful for the security community. This malware remembers the notorious NotPetya basically […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2017
Offshore Legal Firm Appleby Hacked, financial details of rich clients is set to be released

The Financial details of some of the world’s richest people are set to be published after the Offshore Legal Firm Appleby suffered a data security incident. A new financial data leak made the headlines, financial details of clients of an offshore a legal firm is set to be published. The news was reported on Wednesday by a British newspaper, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2017
DUHK Attack allows attackers recover encryption keys used to secure VPN connections and web browsing sessions

DUHK is a vulnerability that allows attackers to recover secret encryption keys used to secure VPN connections and web browsing sessions After the disclosure of the KRACK and ROCA attacks, another attack scenario scares IT community. It is the DUHK vulnerability (Don’t Use Hard-coded Keys), it is the last cryptographic implementation vulnerability that could be exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2017
Bad Rabbit ransomware rapidly spreads, Ukraine and Russia most targeted countries

A new strain of malware dubbed Bad Rabbit ransomware has been found rapidly spreading in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere. A new massive ransomware campaign is rapidly spreading around Europe, the malware dubbed Bad Rabbit has already affected over 200 major organizations mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Japan, and Turkey in a few hours. The Bad Rabbit ransomware has infected […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2017
Credentials (UN)Management in home banking.

Introduction Out of the five main information security pillars, namely confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity and irrefutability, common users give more attention to the first one. But in real life even though in general people agree with the importance of backup, not many actually implement this security mechanism. What one says and what one do is […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2017
APNIC Whois-related problem led to accidental exposure of authentication data

APNIC Deputy Director General Sanjaya confirmed that Whois data were accidentally exposed online included authentication details. The Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) is a non-profit organization that provides Internet addressing services in the Asia-Pacific region. The APNIC made the headlines because it was informed about a Whois-related security incident that led to the exposure of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2017
Researcher spotted flaws in the web-based version of popular Sarahah app

A security researcher discovered a number of embarrassing vulnerabilities in the popular anonymous feedback app Sarahah. The anonymous feedback app Sarahah makes the headlines once again, according to the according to security researcher Scott Helme, the web-based version of the app is plagued with security flaws. Sarahah mobile app allows users to receive anonymous feedback […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2017
Whole Foods Market confirms that nearly 100 locations were affected by card breach

According to the Whole Foods Market, crooks may have stolen payment cards at taprooms and full table-service restaurants at nearly 100 locations. At the end of September, the Amazon-owned grocery chain Whole Foods Market notified customers a security breach. According to the security breach notification issued by the company, cybercriminals were able to gain unauthorized access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2017
Latest Russia-linked APT28 campaign targeting security experts

Russian cyber espionage group APT28 targeted individuals with spear-phishing messages using documents referencing a NATO cybersecurity conference. Researchers with Cisco Talos have spotted a Russian cyber espionage group targeting individuals with spear-phishing messages using documents referencing a NATO cybersecurity conference. Experts attributed the attack to the dreaded Russian APT28 group, aka Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Group 74, Sednit, […]