IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2020
QakBot Big Game Hunting continues: the operators drop ProLock ransomware for Egregor

The QakBot banking trojan has dropped the ProLock ransomware, they are now opting for the Egregor ransomware in their operations. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has discovered that QakBot (aka Qbot) operators have abandoned ProLock for Egregor ransomware. Egregor has been actively distributed since September 2020 and has so far hit […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2020
A flaw in GO SMS Pro App allows accessing media messages

An unpatched security flaw in GO SMS Pro, a popular messaging app for Android with over 100 million installs, exposes media messages. GO SMS Pro is a popular Android messaging app with over 100 million installs, that has been found to be affected by an unpatched security flaw that publicly exposes media transferred between users. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2020
Nation-state actors from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea target Canada

Canada Centre for Cyber Security warns of risks related to state-sponsored programs from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. A report published by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, titled “National Cyber Threat Assessment 2020,” warns of risks associated with state-sponsored operations from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The report is based on both […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2020
Drupal addressed CVE-2020-13671 Remote Code Execution flaw

Drupal development team has released security updates to address a remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-13671. The Drupal development team has released security updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability related caused by the failure to properly sanitize the names of uploaded files. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-13671, has been classified as critical […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2020
We infiltrated an IRC botnet. Here’s what we found

The CyberNews.com Investigation team carried out an infiltration operation against an IRC botnet and reported it to CERT Vietnam to help take it down. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/security/we-infiltrated-an-irc-botnet-heres-what-we-found/ In order to gather valuable information about the IRC botnet’s activity, we joined its Command and Control channel where we met the botmaster who was responsible for […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2020
New Grelos skimmer variant reveals murkiness in tracking Magecart operations

Security experts from RiskIQ discovered a new variant of the Grelos skimmer that presents overlap with Magecart group operations. Researchers from RiskIQ analyzed the increased overlap of a new variant of the skimmer dubbed Grelos and the operations of the groups under the Magecart umbrella. The analysis demonstrates the difficulty in associating new strains of skimmer to groups […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2020
Cisco fixed flaws in WebEx that allow ghost participants in meetings

Cisco has addressed three flaws in Webex Meetings that would have allowed unauthenticated remote attackers to join ongoing meetings as ghost participants. Cisco has addressed three vulnerabilities in Webex Meetings (CVE-2020-3441, CVE-2020-3471, and CVE-2020-3419) that would have allowed unauthenticated remote attackers to join ongoing meetings as ghost participants. “A vulnerability in Cisco Webex Meetings and Cisco Webex Meetings Server […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2020
China-linked APT10 leverages ZeroLogon exploits in recent attacks

Researchers uncovered a large-scale campaign conducted by China-linked APT10 targeting businesses using the recently-disclosed ZeroLogon vulnerability.  Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team, a Broadcom division, uncovered a global campaign conducted by a China-linked APT10 cyber-espionage group targeting businesses using the recently-disclosed ZeroLogon vulnerability.  The group, also known as Cicada, Stone Panda, and Cloud Hopper, has been active at […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2020
Phishing campaign targets LATAM e-commerce users with Chaes Malware

Experts from Cybereason Nocturnus uncovered an active campaign that targets users of a large e-commerce platform in Latin America with Chaes malware. Cybereason Nocturnus security researchers have identified an active campaign focused on the users of a large e-commerce platform in Latin America. Experts at Cybereason Nocturnus have uncovered an active campaign targeting the users […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2020
The Defeated President Trump fired CISA chief Chris Krebs

President Trump has fired Chris Krebs, Director of the CISA, over his statement claiming the recent presidential election the most secure in US history. Former President Trump has fired Chris Krebs, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), over his statement calling the 2020 presidential election the most secure in US history. Former President Trump […]