Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2021
Researchers at TIMâs Red Team Research discovered a zero-day vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server. Today, TIMâs Red Team Research led by Massimiliano Brolli, discovered a new critical vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server. The flaw has not addressed by IBM, because the product version 8.5.0.0 is in End-of-life. Today, TIMâs Red Team Research led […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2021
Researchers from Microsoft are warning that the number of monthly web shell attacks has doubled since last year. Microsoft reported that the number of monthly web shell attacks has almost doubled since last year, its experts observed an average of 140,000 of these software installs on servers on a monthly basis, while in 2020 they […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2021
Security expert Dhiraj Mishra analyzed the popular instant messaging app Telegram and identified some failures in terms of handling the users’ data. Summary:Â While understanding the implementation of various security and privacy measures in Telegram, I identified that telegram fails again in terms of handling the users data. My initial study started with understanding how self-destructing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2021
The fresh release of the Latin American Lampion trojan was updated with a new C2 address. Lampion trojan disseminated in Portugal using COVID-19 template. In the last few days, a new release of the Latin American Lampion trojan was released in Portugal using a template related to COVID-19. This trojan has been distributed in Portugal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2021
An expert released a free decryption tool for the Avaddon ransomware, but operators quickly updated malware code to make it inefficient. The Spanish student Javier Yuste has released a free decryption tool for the Avaddon ransomware that can be used by the victims to recover their encrypted files for free. Yuste is a student at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2021
Lookout researchers provided details about two Android spyware families employed by an APT group tracked as Confucius. Researchers at mobile security firm Lookout have provided details about two recently discovered Android spyware families, dubbed Hornbill and SunBird, used by an APT group named Confucius. Confucius is a pro-India APT group that has been active since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2021
A total of eight criminals have been arrested on 9 February as a result of an international police operation into a series of SIM swapping attacks. Eight men were arrested in England and Scotland as part of a year-long international investigation into a series of SIM swapping attacks targeting high-profile victims in the United States. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2021
SAP released seven new security notes on February 2021 Security Patch Day, including a Hot News note for a critical issue affecting SAP Commerce. SAP released seven new security notes on February 2021 Security Patch Day and updated six previously released notes. The new security notes include a Hot News note that addresses a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21477, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2021
Antivirus firm Emsisoft discloses a data breach, a third-party had access to a publicly exposed database containing technical logs. The anti-malware solutions provider Emsisoft disclosed last week a data breach. The company revealed that a third-party had accessed a publicly exposed database containing technical logs. The root cause of the incident was a misconfiguration of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2021
The gaming firm CD Projekt Red, which developed popular games like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher, has disclosed a ransomware attack. The gaming firm CD Projekt Red, which developed popular games like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher series, has suffered a ransomware attack. The company confirmed the security breach with a series of messages on […]
