Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2018
The Russia-linked APT28 group targets Senator Claire McCaskill and her staff as they gear up for her 2018 re-election campaign. The Russian APT group tracked as Fancy Bear (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, Sednit, and STRONTIUM), that operated under the Russian military agency GRU, continues to target US politicians. This time the target is Senator Claire McCaskill and her staff as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2018
Microsoft revealed that hackers attempted to compromise the supply chain of an unnamed maker of PDF software. The attackers compromised a font package installed by a PDF editor app and used it to spread a crypto-mining malware on victims’ machines. The attack was discovered by the experts from Microsoft that received alerts via the Windows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2018
Researchers discovered a new variant of the Spectre attack, dubbed NetSpectre, that allows to steal data over the network from the target system. A group of researchers has devised a new variant of the Spectre attack, dubbed NetSpectre, that could allow an attacker to steal data over the network from the target system. NetSpectre is described as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2018
Researchers from Proofpoint have discovered a new remote access Trojan (RAT) named Parasite HTTP that implements a broad range of evasion techniques. The Parasite HTTP RAT has a modular architecture that allows authors to easily add new features. The malware includes sandbox detection, anti-debugging, anti-emulation, and other defense mechanisms. “Proofpoint researchers recently discovered a new remote […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2018
Hackers belonging an Iran-linked APT group tracked as ‘Leafminer’ have targeted government and various organizations in the Middle East. An Iran-linked APT group tracked as ‘Leafminer’ has targeted government and businesses in the Middle. According to the experts from Symantec, the Leafminer group has been active at least since early 2017. “Symantec has uncovered the operations of a threat actor named […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2018
US-CERT warns of cyber attacks on ERP applications, including Oracle and SAP, and refers an interesting report published by Digital Shadows and Onapsis. US-CERT warns of cyber attacks on Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions such as Oracle and SAP, both nation-state actors and cybercrime syndicates are carrying out hacking campaign against these systems. The report published by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2018
The Chinese shipping giant COSCO was reportedly hit by a ransomware based attack, the attack occurred in the American region. According to COSCO a âlocal network breakdownâ disrupted some systems in the United States. Media confirmed the incident was the result of a ransomware attack and quoted a company spokesman as the source. “The China Ocean Shipping […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2018
Security expert discovered Kernel Level Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the Availability Suite Service component of Oracle Solaris 10 and 11.3 Security researchers from Trustwave have discovered a new high severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-2892, that affected the Availability Suite Service component in Oracle Solaris 10 and 11.3. The flaw could be exploited by a remote authenticated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2018
Researchers from Proofpoint have discovered a new variant of the infamous Kronos banking Trojan that was involved in several attacks in the recent months. The infamous Kronos banking Trojan is back, and according to the experts from Proofpoint it was involved in several attacks in the last months. The malware was first spotted in 2014 by researchers at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2018
Security experts from Fortinet have discovered that the Hide âN Seek botnet is now targeting vulnerabilities in home automation systems. The Hide âN Seek botnet was first spotted on January 10th when it was targeting home routers and IP cameras. It was first spotted on January 10th by malware researchers from Bitdefender then it disappeared for a few days, and appeared […]
