Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2019
At least 1,300 Harbor cloud registry installs open to attack

A critical security flaw in Harbor cloud native registry for container images could be exploited to obtain admin privileges on a vulnerable hosting system. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researcher Aviv Sasson discovered a critical vulnerability in Harbor cloud native registry for container images. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-16097, could be exploited to take control […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2019
Smominru Botnet continues to rapidly spread worldwide

Researchers at Guardicore Labs reported that the Smominru botnet is rapidly spreading and now is already infecting over 90,000 machines each month around worldwide. In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. According to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2019
Memory corruption flaw in AMD Radeon driver allows VM escape

Experts at Cisco Talos group discovered a vulnerability in the AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL driver that could lead to VM escape. Researchers at Cisco Talos group discovered a vulnerability in the AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL driver that be exploited by an attacker to escale the VM and execute code on the host. This flaw affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2019
Skidmap Linux miner leverages kernel-mode rootkits to evade detection

Trend Micro researchers spotted a piece of Linux cryptocurrency miner, dubbed Skidmap that leverages kernel-mode rootkits to evade the detection. Skidmap is a new piece of crypto-miner detected by Trend Micro that target Linux machines, it uses kernel-mode rootkits to evade the detection. This malware outstands similar miners because of the way it loads malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2019
Fraudulent purchases of digitals certificates through executive impersonation

Experts at ReversingLabs spotted a threat actor buying digital certificates by impersonating legitimate entities and then selling them on the black market. Researchers at ReversingLabs have identified a new threat actor that is buying digital certificates by impersonating company executives, and then selling them on the black market. The experts discovered that digital certificates are then […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2019
A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site

A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site An expert discovered a flaw in the LastPass password manager that exposes login credentials entered on a site previously visited by a user. Tavis Ormandy, the popular white-hat hacker at Google Project Zero, has discovered a vulnerability in the LastPass password manager that exposes […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2019
Drone attacks hit two Saudi Arabia Aramco oil plants

Drone attacks have hit two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, one of them is the Abqaiq site. Drone attacks have hit Saudi Arabia’s oil production suffered severe damage following a swarm of explosive drones that hit two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 231

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! Experts found Joker Spyware in 24 […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2019
A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers

Facebook addressed a vulnerability in Instagram that could have allowed attackers to access private user information. The security researcher @ZHacker13 discovered a flaw in Instagram that allowed an attacker to access account information, including user phone number and real name. ZHacker13 discovered the vulnerability in August and reported the issue to Facebook that asked for additional […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2019
InnfiRAT Trojan steals funds from Bitcoin and Litecoin wallets

Researchers at Zscaler have spotted a new malware dubbed InnfiRAT that infects victims’ systems to steal cryptocurrency wallet data.  Researchers at Zscaler have discovered a new Trojan dubbed InnfiRAT that implements many standard Trojan capabilities along with the ability to steal cryptocurrency wallet data.  “As with just about every piece of malware, InnfiRAT is designed […]