Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2019
Experts at Intezer discovered a new backdoor, dubbed EvilGnome, that is targeting Linux systems for cyber espionage purpose. Intezer spotted a new piece of Linux malware dubbed EvilGnome because it disguises as a Gnome extension. The researchers attribute the spyware to the Russia-linked and Gamaredon Group. The modules used by EvilGnome are reminiscent of the Windows tools used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2019
Malware researchers at two security firms Intezer and Anomali have discovered a new piece of ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Experts at security firms Intezer and Anomali have separately discovered a new piece of ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. NAS servers are a privileged target for hackers because they normally store […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2019
Yesterday, July 6, 2019, hackers breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution. On July 6, 2019, hackers have breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., the organization behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution. The company immediately launched an investigation, the good news is that the source code of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2019
Researchers at Network Security Research Lab of Qihoo 360 discovered a Lua-based backdoor dubbed Godlua that targets both Linux and Windows systems. The peculiarity of this new piece of malware is the ability to communicate with C2 servers via DNS over HTTPS (DoH). The DoH protocol was a new standard proposed in October 2018 and it is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2019
Tens of VMware products are affected by recently discovered SACK Panic and SACK Slowness Linux kernel vulnerabilities. At least 30 VMware products are affected by recently discovered SACK Panic and SACK Slowness Linux kernel vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and reboot vulnerable systems. Impacted products […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
Netflix researcher has identified several TCP networking vulnerabilities in FreeBSD and Linux kernels that could trigger a DoS condition. Jonathan Looney, a security expert at Netflix, found three Linux DoS vulnerabilities, two of them related to the minimum segment size (MSS) and TCP Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) capabilities, and one related only to MSS. The most severe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2019
Hackers are targeting millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions, threat actors leverage the CVE-2019-10149 flaw. Millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions are under attack, threat actors are exploiting the CVE-2019-10149 flaw to take over them. A critical vulnerability affects versions 4.87 to 4.91 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2019
Bad news for Linux users, a flaw tracked as CVE-2019-12735 allows to hack their systems by tricking them into opening a specially crafted file in Vim or Neovim Editor. Security expert Armin Razmjou has recently found a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2019-12735) in Vim and Neovim command-line text editing applications. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-12735, is classified as an arbitrary OS command […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2019
The Russian army seems to be in the process of replacing the Windows system with the Debian-based Linux distribution Astra Linux. Cyber security seems to subvert the globalization concept, governments are working to develop their own technology fearing possible espionage and sabotage activities of foreign states. The Russian military is in the process of replacing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2019
A race condition flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to read and write any file on the host system affects any versions of Docker. Experts found a race condition vulnerability in any versions of Docker, the vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to read and write any file on the host system. […]
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