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Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2020
Operation North Star – North-Korea hackers targeted US defense and aerospace companies

North Korea-linked hackers continue to be very active in this period, researchers reported a campaign aimed at the US defense and aerospace sectors. Security experts from McAfee uncovered a new cyber-espionage campaign carried out by North Korean hackers that targeted the US defense and aerospace sectors. Threat actors used fake job offers to deceive employees […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2020
BootHole issue allows installing a stealthy and persistent malware

Billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader issue, dubbed BootHole, that can be exploited to install a stealthy malware. Billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-10713 and dubbed BootHole, which can be exploited by attackers to install persistent and stealthy […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
ShinyHunters leaked over 386 million user records from 18 companies

ShinyHunters, a trusted threat actor, is offering on a hacker forum the databases stolen from eighteen companies, over 386 million user records available online. The known threat actor ShinyHunters has begun leaking for free the databases of multiple companies on a hacker forum. A couple of days ago, the popular digital banking app Dave.com disclosed a security […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
Pirate Ship Sailing to Developing World: Group-IB Uncovers Real Captains of Online Piracy Crew

Group-IB’s report uncovers major players and driving forces of a criminal digital piracy syndicate which has been flourishing in the post-Soviet space Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, today presented its report “Jolly Roger’s patrons. Group-IB exposes financial crime network of online pirates in developing countries.“ The document uncovers major players […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
Hacking IoT & RF Devices with BürtleinaBoard

Yet another Multipurpose Breakout Board to hack hardware in a clean and easy way! How to hack IoT & RF Devices with BürtleinaBoard. Disclaimer: due to a complaint from the citizens of my native city in Italy… I had to rename #PiadinaBoard into #BurtleinaBoard 😛 Few months ago I have presented #FocacciaBoard: a similar multipurpose breakout board […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
QSnatch malware infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS Devices

US and UK cybersecurity agencies issued a joint advisory about the spread of QSnatch Data-Stealing Malware that already infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS devices. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a joint advisory about a massive ongoing campaign spreading the QSnatch data-stealing malware. The malicious code […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2020
Garmin says many of the systems are returning to operation

Smartwatch and wearable device maker Garmin announced that its computer networks were coming back after the ransomware attack that took place last week. Last week, on July 23, smartwatch and wearable device maker Garmin had to shut down some of its connected services and call centers following a ransomware attack. A few days after the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2020
Security Affairs newsletter Round 274

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Diebold Nixdorf warns of a wave of ATM black box attacks across Europe Ghost Squad Hackers defaced a second European Space Agency (ESA) site in a week Twitter reveals that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 25, 2020
D-Link addressed 5 flaws on some router models, some of them reached EoL

D-Link disclosed five severe vulnerabilities affecting some router models which can be exploited by attackers to compromise a network. D-Link has disclosed five severe vulnerabilities affecting some router models, the flaw could allow a severe network compromise. Unfortunately, some of the impacted models have reached their End-of-Support (“EOS”)/ End-of-Life (“EOL”) date, which means they wouldn’t receive security updates to fix the issues. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 25, 2020
US CISA warns of attacks exploiting CVE-2020-5902 flaw in F5 BIG-IP

The U.S. CISA is warning of the active exploitation of the unauthenticated remote code execution CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability affecting F5 Big-IP ADC devices. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert about the active exploitation of the unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability affecting F5 Big-IP ADC devices. The alert includes additional […]