Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · A Cobalt Strike flaw exposed attackers infrastructure · The operator of DDoS-for-hire service pleads guilty · The Wireshark Foundation released Wireshark 3.0.0 · Annual RSA Conference Exclusive 2019 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2019
Ransomware threat makes the headlines again, this time an attack hit the computers of Jackson County, Georgia, paralyzing the government activity. Computers of Jackson County, Georgia, were infected with ransomware that paralyzed the government activity until officials decided to pay a $400,000 ransom to decrypt the files. “The Jackson County government paid online criminals about […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2019
Security experts at Pen Test Partners discovered several vulnerabilities in two smart car alarm systems put three million vehicles globally at risk of hack. The flaws could be exploited by attackers to disable the alarm, as well as track and unlock the vehicles using it, or to start and stop the engine even when the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2019
Experts found an unprotected server exposing online 4 MongoDB databases belonging to the email validation company Verifications.io. A new mega data leak made the headlines, an unprotected MongoDB database (150GB) belonging to a marketing company exposed up to 809 million records. The archive includes 808,539,849 records containing: emailrecords = 798,171,891 records emailWithPhone = 4,150,600 records […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2019
Malware researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a new piece of malware dubbed SLUB that leverages GitHub and Slack for C&C communications. Malware researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new backdoor dubbed SLUB that abuse GitHub and Slack for command and control (C&C) communications. According to the experts, the SLUB backdoor (Backdoor.Win32.SLUB.A) was only […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2019
The American multinational software company Citrix disclosed a security breach, according to the firm an international cyber criminals gang gained access to its internal network. The American multinational software company Citrix is the last victim of a security breach, according to the company an international cyber criminal gang gained access to its internal network, Hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2019
Google this week revealed a Windows zero-day that is being actively exploited in targeted attacks alongside a recently fixed Chrome flaw. Google this week disclosed a Windows zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in targeted attacks alongside a recently addressed flaw in Chrome flaw (CVE-2019-5786). The Windows zero-day vulnerability is a local privilege escalation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2019
Zero-day broker firm Zerodium is offering up to $500,000 for VMware ESXi (vSphere) and Microsoft Hyper-V vulnerabilities. Exploit acquisition firm Zerodium is offering up to $500,000 for VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V vulnerabilities. The company is looking for exploits that allow guest-to-host escapes in default configurations to gain full access to the host. The overall […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2019
A study conducted by academics discovered that SSL and TLS certificates and associated services can be easily acquired from dark web marketplaces. A study sponsored by Venafi and conducted by researchers from Georgia State University in the U.S. and the University of Surrey in the U.K. discovered that SSL and TLS certificates and associated services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2019
Cisco released security updates to address over two dozen serious vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco Nexus switches. Cisco released security updates to address over two dozen serious vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco Nexus switches, including denial-of-service (DoS) issues, arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation flaws. Cisco published security advisories for most of the vulnerabilities, many of them impact the […]
