Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2018
Siemens fixed three flaws in plant management product Siemens TeleControl Basic system

Siemens has patched three security vulnerabilities in its Plant Management Product, the Siemens TeleControl Basic system. The system is used in water treatment facilities, traffic monitoring systems, and energy distribution plants. The TeleControl Basic control center runs the TeleControl Server Basic software. The Siemens TeleControl Basic system allows organizations to monitor and control processes in […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2018
Malware exploiting Spectre and Meltdown flaws are currently based on available PoC

Malware Exploiting Spectre, Meltdown Flaws Emerges Researchers at the antivirus testing firm AV-TEST have discovered more than 130 samples of malware that were specifically developed to exploit the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities. The good news is that these samples appear to be the result of testing activities, but experts fear that we could soon […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2018
Mozilla fixes a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Firefox

Mozilla has released security updates for Firefox 58 that addresses a critical remote code vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Mozilla has released an update for the Firefox 58 browser  (aka Firefox Quantum) that addresses a critical flaw that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2018
Is ICEMAN behind the malware-based attack on Crystal Finance Millennium?

Exclusive – The Iceman gang taking responsibility for infecting Crystal Finance Millennium, the journalist Marc Miller interviewd one of the members of the crew. Iceman gang member confirms that they are behind the introduction and spreading of malware that infected the systems at Crystal Finance Millennium. In Septemeber security experts at TrendMicro reported that the Ukraine based Account […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2018
Cybercriminals Stealing From Cybercriminals Ransomware Victims Left Stranded

What do you get when you add Bitcoin, with a TOR network proxy and cybercriminals? Even more cybercrime! Bitcoin is the preferred cryptocurrency for ransomware payments. Like most cryptocurrencies it is largely anonymous, allowing the ransoming cybercriminals to collect their money while staying safely in the shadows. Even though Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2018
Three Dutch banks and Tax Agency under DDoS Attacks … is it a Russian job?

Three Dutch Banks (ABN AMRO, ING Bank, Rabobank) and Tax Agency were targeted by a coordinated DDoS Attacks a few days the revelation of the Russian APT Hack. Early this week a massive DDoS attack targeted three Dutch banks, ABN AMRO, ING Bank, Rabobank, and the Dutch Taxation Authority (Belastingdienst). The attack against the system of ABN AMRO started over the weekend, while […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2018
Cisco ASA software is affected by a flaw with 10 out of 10 severity rating. Patch it asap

Cisco released security updates to address a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-0101, in Cisco ASA software Cisco addressed a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-0101, in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software. The vulnerability could be exploited by a remote and unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition causing the reload of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2018
Crooks target ATMs with Ploutus-D malware, these are the first confirmed cases of Jackpotting in US

Cybercriminals are targeting ATM machines in the US forcing them to spit out hundreds of dollars with ‘jackpotting‘ attacks. According to a senior US Secret Service official, the organization has managed to steal more than $1m from ATM machines using this technique. Once crooks gain physical access to the ATM, they will infect it with a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018
#ThinkBeyond – Security solutions from market leaders may all fail in your particular environment

Buying solutions proposed by analyst firms without carefully analyzing your organization expose it to cyber threats. It’s time to #ThinkBeyond this broken paradigm. The cybersecurity market is expected to double by 2022, analysts estimated the growth could reach three hundred thousand dollars, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11.0%. In the same period, the number […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018
Dridex banking Trojan and the FriedEx ransomware were developed by the same group

Security researchers from ESET have tied another family of ransomware, dubbed FriedEx (aka BitPaymer), to the authors of the Dridex Trojan. The Dridex banking Trojan that has been around since 2014, it was involved in numerous campaigns against financial institutions over the years and crooks have continuously improved it. In April 2017, millions of people were targeted […]