Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2018
The SpamCannibal blacklist service was hijacked since Wednesday morning, attackers changed the DNS name server settings for the website overnight. The SpamCannibal was born to blacklist IP address of malicious servers involved in spam campaigns and DoS attacks. SpamCannibal was using a continually updated database containing the IP addresses of spam or DoS servers and blocks their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2018
Dmitri Kaslov, a security researcher at Telspace Systems, discovered a vulnerability in the JScript component of the Windows operating system that can be exploited by an attacker to execute malicious code on a target computer. Kaslov disclosed the zero-day flaw through the Trend Micro Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) back in January, then ZDI experts reported it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2018
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI issued a joint Technical alert on two strain on malware, the Joanap backdoor Trojan and Brambul Server Message Block worm, associated with the HIDDEN COBRA North Korea-linked APT group. The US-CERT alert reads: “Working with U.S. government partners, DHS and FBI identified Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and other indicators […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2018
The Git community disclosed a dangerous vulnerability in Git, tracked as CVE-2018-11235, that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user operates in a malicious repository. The Git developer team and other firms offering Git repository hosting services have issued security updates to address a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-11235 in the Git […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2018
Researchers at IBM X-Force Research team discovered a new Delphi-based banking Trojan dubbed MnuBot that leverages Microsoft SQL Server for communication with the command and control (C&C). The MnuBot Trojan implements a two-stage attack flow, it is composed of two main components that are tasked for the two stages. In the first stage, the malware searches for a file […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2018
A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-11518 could be exploited by attackers to power a phreaking attack on HCL legacy Interactive Voice Response systems that do not use VoIP. These IVR systems rely on various frequencies of audio signals; based on the frequency, certain commands and functions are processed. Since these frequencies are accepted within a phone call, an attacker can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2018
Security experts from the 360 Core Security Team have found and successfully exploited a buffer out-of-bounds write vulnerability in EOS node when parsing a WASM file. Vulnerability Description We found and successfully exploit a buffer out-of-bounds write vulnerability in EOS when parsing a WASM file. To use this vulnerability, attacker could upload a malicious smart […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2018
Hacker stole $1.3 million from cryptocurrency startup Taylor, the development team will stop the launch of its trading app that was initially planned for this month. The author of the Taylor cryptocurrency trading app announced a security breach, an unknown hacker has stolen around $1.35 million worth of Ether from the wallets of the company. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2018
Group-IB has released a new report on Cobalt groupâs attacks against banks and financial sector organizations worldwide after the arrest of its leader. Threat intelligence firm Group-IB published an interesting report titiled “Cobalt: Evolution and Joint Operations” on the joint operations of Cobalt and Anunak (Carbanak) groups after the arrest of the leader in March 2018. Researchers reported that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2018
Researchers and the FBI are working together to take down the dreaded VPNFilter botnet composed of hundreds of thousands of compromised devices. For several months, there have been rumors and vague warnings about highly skilled adversaries targeting critical infrastructure. Last week we learned some details about the warning, why you might be impacted and how […]
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