Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2021
US DoJ charges three members of the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group

The US DOJ charged three members of the North Korea-linked Lazarus Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group. The U.S. Justice Department indicted three North Korean military intelligence officials, members of the Lazarus APT group, for their involvement in cyber-attacks, including the theft of $1.3 billion in money and crypto-currency from organizations around the globe. The indictment […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2021
ScamClub malvertising gang abused WebKit zero-day to redirect to online gift card scams

Malvertising gang ScamClub has exploited an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in WebKit-based browsers in a campaign aimed at realizing online gift card scams. The Malvertising gang ScamClub has abused an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in WebKit-based browsers to bypass security measures and redirect users from legitimate sites to websites hosting online gift card scams. The malvertising campaign […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2021
Centreon says that recently disclosed campaigns only targeted obsolete versions of its open-source software

French software firm Centreon announced this week that the recently disclosed supply chain attack did not impact its paid customers. The French security agency ANSSI recently warned of a series of attacks targeting Centreon monitoring software used by multiple French organizations and attributes them to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The first attack spotted by ANSSI experts dates […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2021
Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware In the last few years, many banking trojans developed by Latin American criminals have increased in volume and sophistication. Although exists a strong adoption of technologies with the goal of protecting the final user such as plugins, tokens, e-tokens, two-factor-authentication mechanisms, CHIP, PIN […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2021
Telegram flaw could have allowed access to users secret chats

Experts at Shielder disclosed a flaw in the Telegram app that could have exposed users’ secret messages, photos, and videos to remote attackers. Researchers at cyber security firm Shielder discovered a critical flaw affecting iOS, Android, and macOS versions of the instant messaging app Telegram. The experts discovered that sending a sticker to a Telegram user could […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2021
Hackers abusing the Ngrok platform phishing attacks

Researchers from threat intelligence Cyble have discovered threat actors abusing the Ngrok platform in a fresh phishing campaign. Researchers at the threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered a new wave of phishing attacks targeting multiple organizations that are abusing the ngrok platform, a secure and introspectable tunnel to the localhost. ngrok is a cross-platform application used to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2021
Popular SHAREit app is affected by severe flaws yet to be fixed

Multiple vulnerabilities in the popular file-sharing app SHAREit have yet, to be addressed, experts from Trend Micro warned. SHAREit is a popular file-sharing Android app with more than one billion downloads, experts from Trend Micro discovered multiple unpatched vulnerabilities in its code. The vulnerabilities impact the Android version of SHAREit, a mobile app that allows users […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2021
A new Bluetooth overlay skimmer block chip-based transactions

Experts discovered a new Bluetooth overlay skimmer that interferes with the ability of the terminal to read chip-based cards, forcing the use of the stripe. The popular investigator Brian Krebs reported the discovery of a new Bluetooth overlay skimmer that interfered with the terminal’s ability to read chip-based cards, forcing the use of the magnetic […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2021
VMware fixes command injection issue in vSphere Replication

VMware released security patches for a potentially serious vulnerability affecting the vSphere Replication product. VMware has recently released security patches to address a serious command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21976, in its vSphere Replication product. VMware vSphere Replication is an extension to VMware vCenter Server that provides hypervisor-based virtual machine replication and recovery. vSphere Replication […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2021
France agency ANSSI links Russia’s Sandworm APT to attacks on hosting providers

French agency ANSSI attributes a series of attacks targeting Centreon servers to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The French security agency ANSSI is warning of a series of attacks targeting Centreon monitoring software used by multiple French organizations and attributes them to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The first attack spotted by ANSSI experts dates back […]