Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2019
Group-IB has discovered that the shutdown of Moonwalk CDN (Content Delivery Network) has likely led to the closure of HDGO and Kodik CDNs. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has discovered that the shutdown of Moonwalk CDN (Content Delivery Network), one of the biggest pirate-powered providers of video content to Russian-speaking viewers, has likely led to the closure of HDGO and Kodik CDNs– major […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2019
A new ransomware attack made the headlines, this time the victim is the City of Johannesburg municipality. A ransomware attack infected systems at the City of Johannesburg municipality shutting down the website, the e-services platform, and the billing system (SAP ISU and CRM). “The City of Johannesburg reported a breach of its network on Thursday night […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2019
Experts have uncovered an ongoing phishing campaign targeting the United Nations and NGOs, including UNICEF and UN World Food. Security firm Lookout uncovered an ongoing spear-phishing campaign aimed at NGOs, including human rights organizations such as the Red Cross, UNICEF, the UN World Food and the UN Development programs. The analysis of the server infrastructure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2019
The US FBI issued a warning for the US private sector about e-skimming attacks carried out by the Magecart cybercrime groups. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an alert on e-skimming attacks. E-skimming took place when hackers compromise an e-commerce site and plant a malicious code designed to siphon payment card data or personally […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2019
Flaws in Avast, AVG, and Avira Antivirus could be exploited by an attacker to load a malicious DLL file to bypass defenses and escalate privileges. Security experts at SafeBreach Labs discovered flaws in Avast, AVG, and Avira Antivirus that could be exploited by an attacker to load a malicious DLL file to bypass defenses and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2019
Boffins disclosed a web attack technique (CPDoS attack) that can poison content delivery networks (CDNs) into caching and then serving error pages. Two researchers from the Technical University of Cologne (TH Koln) have devised a new web attack that can be used by threat actors to poison content delivery networks (CDNs) into caching and then […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2019
A vulnerability in the Trend Micro Anti-Threat Toolkit (ATTK) can be exploited by attackers to run malware on targets’ Windows systems. The security expert and bug-hunter John “hyp3rlinx” Page discovered an arbitrary code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-9491, in the Trend Micro Anti-Threat Toolkit. Trend Micro ATTK allows analyzing malware issues and clean infections. It can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2019
NordVPN and TorGuard VPN firms were hacked, threat actors leaked the private keys used to secure their web servers and VPN configuration files. Hackers have breached the systems used by NordVPN and TorGuard VPN companies and leaked the private keys used to secure their web servers and VPN configuration files. The information belonging to the NordVPN company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2019
Czech police and intelligence services have identified a Russian espionage network operating having a nerve center in its Prague embassy. Czech police and intelligence services have dismantled a Russian espionage network operating that was operating via its Prague embassy. The officials were helped by peers at the National Organised Crime Centre (NCOZ). According to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2019
Security experts have a new malware, dubbed skip-2.0 used by the China-linked APT group to establish a backdoor in Microsoft SQL Server systems. Security experts at ESET have discovered a new malware, dubbed skip-2.0, used by the Chinese Winnti cyberespionage group to gain persistence on Microsoft SQL Server systems. The Winnti group was first spotted by […]
