Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2020
About a year ago, Yoroi released the Yomi Hunter sandbox, today, they love to challenge the malware community with the first “Yomi Hunting” contest. About a year ago, we publicly released the Yomi Hunter sandbox for a few simple reasons: in Yoroi we believe in the InfoSec community value, we think it plays a central […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2020
Security experts from Yoroy-Cybaze ZLab have conducted a detailed analysis of an implant used by the Gamaredon APT group in a recent campaign. Introduction Gamaredon Group is a Cyber Espionage persistent operation attributed to Russians FSB (Federal Security Service) in a long-term military and geo-political confrontation against the Ukrainian government and more in general against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2020
Iranian hackers have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world Iran-linked attackers targeted Pulse Secure, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Citrix VPNs to hack into large companies as part of the Fox Kitten Campaign. During the last quarter of 2019, experts from security firm ClearSky uncovered a hacking campaign tracked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2020
The US administration requested $9.8 billion for cyber in next year’s budget for the Department of Defense, the amount is the same as last year. The US administration requested $9.8 billion for cyber operations in next year’s budget for the Department of Defense, a data that confirms the strategic importance of the fifth domain of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2020
Organizers of Black Hat Asia and DEF CON China security conferences announced that they put the events on hold due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Bad news for cybersecurity passionates and experts, organizers of Black Hat Asia and DEF CON China security conferences announced last week that they have put the events on hold due to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Maastricht University finally paid a 30 bitcoin ransom to crooks Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity The number of cyber attacks on Saudi Aramco is increasing 1.2 million CPR numbers for Danish citizen leaked through […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2020
Photos and personal information belonging to patients of the NextMotion plastic surgery tech firm have been exposed online through an unsecured S3 bucket. Hundreds of thousands of documents containing photos and personal information belonging to patients of the plastic surgery technology company NextMotion have been exposed online through an unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2020
Security experts have discovered multiple flaws, dubbed SweynTooth, in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) implementations of major system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors. A group of researchers has discovered multiple vulnerabilities, tracked as SweynTooth, in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) implementations of major system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors. The group was composed of researchers Matheus E. Garbelini, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2020
Austria’s foreign ministry announced that the cyber attack against its systems, allegedly carried by a state actor has ended. Earlier January, Austria’s foreign ministry announced it was facing a “serious cyberattack” and that it could be the work of a nation-state actor. “Due to the gravity and nature of the attack, it cannot be ruled out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2020
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released reports on North Korea-linked HIDDEN COBRA malware. The FBI, the US Cyber Command, and the Department of Homeland Security have published technical details of a new North-Korea linked hacking operation. The government experts released new and updated Malware Analysis Reports (MARs) […]
