Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2020
The phone of the Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos was hacked in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. In April 2019, Gavin de Becker, the investigator hired by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos to investigate into the release of his intimate images revealed that Saudi Arabian authorities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2020
US military claims to have disrupted the online propaganda activity of the Islamic State (ISIS) in a hacking operation dating back at least to 2016. In 2016, the US Cyber Command carried out successful operations against the online propaganda of the Islamic State (ISIS), this is what emerged from declassified national security top-secret documents released […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2020
Yomi implements detection for CurveBall exploits and also supports CVE-2020-0601 exploit detection even for signed Powershell modules. The recent CurveBall vulnerability shook the Info-Sec community worldwide: a major vulnerability reported directly by the US National Security Agency. Such uncommon vulnerability reporter alerted the whole Industry, CVE-2020-0601 quickly conquered most of the headlines. The reason for this unusual outreach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2020
In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. This is not the first time Fbot analysis has been published, and also Fbot binaries have been actively infecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2020
Expert found a hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet ’s Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM that can allow access to the FortiSIEM Supervisor. Andrew Klaus, a security specialist from Cybera, discovered a hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet’s Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM that can be used by attackers to the FortiSIEM Supervisor. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2020
Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate information. Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. According to the company, attackers did not obtain sensitive information about defense contracts. The breach was detected almost eight months ago, on June 28, 2019, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2020
The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee announced that the alliance has sent a counter-hybrid team to Montenegro to face Russian hybrid attacks. Last week in Brussels, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (MC), Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, announced the effort of the Alliance in facing Russian hybrid attacks. The term “Hybrid warfare” refers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2020
Researchers from Cisco Talos discovered a new Trojan named JhoneRAT that was used in targeted attacks against entities in the Middle East. A new Trojan named JhoneRAT appeared in the threat landscape, it is selectively attacking targets in the Middle East by checking keyboard layouts. The malware targets a very specific set of Arabic-speaking countries, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Google removed 1.7K+ Joker Malware infected apps from its Play Store MageCart attack hit Australia bushfire Donors New Bill prohibits intelligence sharing with countries using Huawei 5G equipment 5G – The Future of Security and Privacy in Smart […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2020
Microsoft published a security advisory to warn of an Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2020-0674) that is currently being exploited in the wild. Microsoft has published a security advisory (ADV200001) that includes mitigations for a zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-0674, affecting Internet Explorer. The tech giant confirmed that the CVE-2020-0674 zero-day […]
