Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2018
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have uncovered a new cyber espionage group tracked as RANCOR that has been targeting entities in South East Asia. According to the experts, the RANCOR APT group has been targeting political entities in Singapore, Cambodia, and Thailand, and likely in other countries, using two previously unknown strain of malware. The two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2018
The US DHS and the FBI have published a new joint report that includes technical details of a piece of malware allegedly used by the Hidden Cobra APT. A new joint report published by US DHS and FBI made the headlines, past document details TTPs associated with North Korea-linked threat groups, tracked by the US government as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2018
Trend Micro spotted a new attack relying on weaponized Word documents and PowerShell scripts that appears related to the MuddyWater APT. Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new attack relying on weaponized Word documents and PowerShell scripts that appears related to the MuddyWater cyber-espionage campaign. The first MuddyWater campaign was observed in late 2017, then researchers from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2018
A China-linked APT group, LuckyMouse, Emissary Panda, APT27 and Threat Group 3390, has targeted a national data center in Central Asia. The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S. defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide. In March 2018, security experts at Kaspersky Lab have observed an attack powered by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2018
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group planted an ActiveX zero-day exploit on the website of a South Korean think tank focused on national security. According to researchers at AlienVault, North Korea-linked hackers planted an ActiveX zero-day vulnerability on the website of a South Korean think tank focused on national security. The experts attributed the attack to the notorious Lazarus APT group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2018
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
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 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
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 […]
