Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2020
France will not ban Huawei from its upcoming 5G networks

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France won’t ban the Chinese giant Huawei from its upcoming 5G telecommunication networks. French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his government will not exclude Chinese telecom giant Huawei from the building of the upcoming 5G telecommunication networks. However, Macron said that France will favor European providers of 5G technology […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2020
Hackers are trying to exploit DoS flaw in Cisco IOS XR software running in carrier-grade routers

Cisco warns that threat actors are attempting to exploit a high severity DoS flaw in its Cisco IOS XR software that runs on carrier-grade routers. Cisco warned over the weekend that attackers are trying to exploit a high severity memory exhaustion denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability (CVE-2020-3566) affecting the Cisco IOS XR Network OS that runs on carrier-grade routers. Cisco IOS XR […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2020
Qbot uses a new email collector module in the latest campaign

QBot Trojan operators are using new tactics in their campaign to hijack legitimate email conversations to steal sensitive data from the victims. Researchers from Check Point are warning of a new trend observed in QBot Trojan campaign targeting Microsoft Outlook users, QBot Trojan operators are using new tactics to hijack legitimate email conversations and steal […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2020
Google removed malicious Terracotta apps from the Play Store

Researchers from White Ops discovers several Android apps in the official Play store which installed on users’ mobile devices the Terracotta ad fraud malware. Researchers from security firm White Ops discovered several Android apps in the official Play Store that installed a hidden browser to load pages containing ad and commit ad fraud. The company […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2020
US DoJ wants the funds stored by North Korea in 280 BTC and ETH

US DoJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) accounts containing funds allegedly stolen by North Korea-linked hackers The US DoJ has filed a civil forfeiture complaint with the intent to seize control over 280 Bitcoin and Ethereum accounts that are believed to be holding funds which are the proceeds of hacking campaigns […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2020
Emotet botnet has begun to use a new ‘Red Dawn’ template

In August, the Emotet botnet operators switched to a new template, named ‘Red Dawn,’ for the malicious attachments employed in new campaigns.  The notorious Emotet went into the dark since February 2020, but after months of inactivity, the infamous trojan has surged back in July with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The Emotet banking trojan […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2020
Security Affairs newsletter Round 279

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. A Google Drive weakness could allow attackers to serve malware Adobe released open- source tool Stringlifier to identify randomly generated strings Canadian delivery company Canpar Express suffered a ransomware attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2020
Malicious npm package ‘fallguys’ removed from the official repository

The npm security team removed a malicious JavaScript library from the npm repository that was designed to steal sensitive files from the victims. The npm security team has removed the JavaScript library “fallguys” from the npm portal because it was containing a malicious code used to steal sensitive files from an infected users’ browser and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2020
North Korea-linked APT group BeagleBoyz targets banks

North Korea-linked APT group BeagleBoyz intensified its operations since February, US CISA, Department of the Treasury, FBI, and USCYBERCOM warn. According to a joint advisory issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) North Korea-linked APT group BeagleBoyz […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2020
FBI warns of an increase in online romance scams

The FBI is warning of online romance scams and related financial losses, overall losses associated with those complaints exceeded $475 million. The Federal Bureau of Investigation warns of online romance scams (also known as confidence fraud), an ongoing criminal activity that continues to cause large financial losses along with emotional effects with unpredictable consequences. Crooks […]