Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2019
The popular in-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive has announced that it will shut down on March 8, 2019. The service made the headlines across the years because it was used by crooks to abuse computational resources of the victims that were visiting compromised websites hosting the Coinhive script. Coinhive was initially launched as a legitimate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2019
Experts at Exploit detection service EdgeSpot detected several PDF documents that exploit a zero-day flaw in Chrome to harvest user data. Exploit detection service EdgeSpot spotted several PDF documents that exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome to harvest data on users who open the files through the popular web browser. The experts initially detected the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2019
Security researchers at Cisco Talos are warning of a spike in attacks on unsecured Elasticsearch clusters to drop cryptocurrency miners. Cisco Talos experts have reported a spike in the attacks thatleverage known flaws to compromise unsecured Elasticsearch clusters and use them to mine crypto-currencies. At least six different threat actors are targeting installs running older […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2019
Researchers found a new set of flaws that can be exploited via Thunderbolt to compromise a broad range of modern computers with Thunderclap attacksResearchers found a new set of flaws that can be exploited via Thunderbolt to compromise a broad range of modern computers with Thunderclap attacks Security experts from Rice University in the United […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2019
The U.S. Cyber Command blocked the Internet access to the Russian troll factory while it was attempting to interfere with 2018 midterm. According to the Washington Post, that cites several U.S. officials, the operation conducted by the U.S. Cyber Command hit the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, the company used by the Russian Government […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2019
Threat actors in the wild are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2019-6340 flaw in the Drupal CMS to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads. Just three days after the CVE-2019-6340 flaw in Drupal was addressed, threat actors in the wild started exploiting the issue to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads. Last week, Drupal core team […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2019
Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab investigated artefacts behind Australian Parliament attack to have an insight of Tools and Capabilities associated with the attackers. Introduction In the past days, a cyber attack targeted a high profile target on the APAC area: the Australian Parliament House. As reported by the Australian prime minister there was no evidence of any information theft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2019
The Russian hacker Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov pleads guilty to bank fraud after running a botnet that spread ‘NeverQuest’ malware for three years. The Russian hacker Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov, aka “Black,” “Blackf,” is accused of using the NeverQuest banking Trojan to steal login information from victims. The man has pled guilty to one count of conspiracy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2019
ToRPEDO attacks – A group of academics from Purdue University and the University of Iowa discovered multiple vulnerabilities in cellular networks that affect both 4G and 5G LTE protocols. A group of academics from Purdue University and the University of Iowa discovered multiple vulnerabilities in cellular networks that affect both 4G and 5G LTE protocols. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2019
A security expert discovered a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in Yahoo Mail that could have been exploited to steal the targeted user’s emails and attach malicious code to their outgoing messages. Yahoo addressed a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Yahoo Mail that could have been exploited by hackers to steal user’s emails and […]
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