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Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2018
Experts from Talos continues to monitor the evolution of the VPNFilter malware, it is more powerful than previously thought. In May, security firm Talos along with other cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have uncovered a huge botnet dubbed VPNFilter, composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The malicious code targets […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2018
Security experts from ESET have spotted the first UEFI rootkit of ever, the code tracked as LoJax was used in attacks in the wild. Security researchers from ESET have discovered a new piece of a sophisticated malware used by the Russia-linked Sednit group (aka Fancy Bear, APT28, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, and STRONTIUM) in targeted attacks aimed at government entities in the Balkans as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2018
A new integer overflow vulnerability found in Linux Kernel. Dubbed Mutagen Astronomy, it affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Distributions. Security researchers have discovered a new integer overflow vulnerability in Linux Kernel, dubbed Mutagen Astronomy, that affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Distributions. The vulnerability could be exploited by an unprivileged user to gain superuser access to the targeted system. The flaw was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2018
Uber agrees to $148 million settlement with US States and the District of Columbia over the massive 2016 data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users. In November 2017, the Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced that hackers broke into the company database and accessed the personal data (names, email addresses and cellphone numbers) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2018
The latest samples of the HNS bot were designed to target Android devices having the wireless debugging feature ADB enabled. The Hide and Seek (HNS) IoT botnet was first spotted early this year, since its discovery the authors continuously evolved its code. The IoT botnet appeared in the threat landscape in January, when it was first discovered on January 10th […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2018
Former NSA TAO hacker was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky. A former member of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky software. The former NSA hacker is Nghia […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2018
Security experts have spotted a Monero cryptomining campaign that abused Kodi add-ons to deliver miner that target both Linux and Windows systems. Crooks are abusing Kodi Media Player to distribute malware, researchers from ESET recently spotted a cryptomining campaign that compromised about over 5,000 computers. Kodi users can add new functionality by installing add-ons that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2018
0patch community released an unofficial patch for the Microsoft JET Database Engine zero-day vulnerability disclosed by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative Experts from 0patch, a community of experts that aims at addressing software flaws, released an unofficial patch for the Microsoft JET Database Engine zero-day vulnerability that Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) disclosed last […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2018
Bitcoin Core Software fixed a critical DDoS attack vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core wallet software tracked as CVE-2018-17144. The Bitcoin Core team urges miners to update client software with the latest Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 version as soon as possible. “A denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2018-17144) exploitable by miners has been discovered in Bitcoin Core versions 0.14.0 up […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2018
Another fashion retailer suffered a data breach, the victim is SHEIN that announces the security breach affected 6.42 million customers. The retailer hired a forensic cybersecurity firm as well as an international law firm to investigate the security breach. SHEIN is now notifying affected users and it is urging them to change the password for […]
