Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2020
University Hospital New Jersey (UHNJ) has suffered a ransomware attack, SunCrypt ransomware operators also leaked the data they have stolen. Systems at the University Hospital New Jersey (UHNJ) were encrypted with the SunCrypt ransomware, threat actors also stolen documents from the institution and leaked it online. The incident took place in September. The UHNJ is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2020
US Department of Justice announced indictments against 5 Chinese nationals alleged members of a state-sponsored hacking group known as APT41. The United States Department of Justice this week announced indictments against five Chinese nationals believed to be members of the cyber-espionage group known as APT41 (Winnti, Barium, Wicked Panda and Wicked Spider). US authorities are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2020
The source code of the infamous Cerberus banking Trojan has been released for free on underground hacking forums following a failed auction. The author of the Cerberus banking Trojan has released the source code of the malware on underground hacking forums following a failed auction. In July, the authors of the notorious Cerberus Android banking trojan auctioned […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2020
The US National Security Agency (NSA) published guidance on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot customization. The United States National Security Agency (NSA) has published guidance on how the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot feature that can be customized organizations. The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2020
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a malware analysis report (MAR) that includes technical details about web shells employed by Iranian hackers. A web shell is a code, often written in typical web development programming languages (e.g., ASP, PHP, JSP), that attackers implant on web servers to gain remote access and code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2020
A threat actor is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers in the attempt to access them to install a new crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. A group of hackers is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. According to security firm Tencent, the team of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2020
Microsoft released the Project OneFuzz, an open-source fuzzing framework for its cloud computing service Azure. Microsoft this week announced the release of the Project OneFuzz which is an open-source fuzzing framework for its cloud computing service Azure. The project was previously used by the IT giant to find vulnerabilities in the popular service. “Today, weâre […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2020
Adobe has released an out-of-band security update to address three ‘Important’ security vulnerabilities in the Adobe Media Encoder. Adobe has released an out-of-band security update for Adobe Media Encoder that addresses three ‘Important’ Information Disclosure flaws. The three vulnerabilities could be exploited by an attacker to access sensitive information that is leaked in the security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2020
Experts warn of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. While the popularity of online learning is increasing due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, threat actors are launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) on education institutions and the academic industry across the world. The DDoS attacks are causing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2020
CISA published an advisory on China-linked groups targeting government agencies by exploiting flaws in Microsoft Exchange, Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems. CISA published a security advisory warning of a wave of attacks carried out by China-linked APT groups affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security. Chinese state-sponsored hackers have probed US government networks looking for vulnerable networking […]
