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Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2017

Chinese TA459 APT exploits CVE-2017-0199 flaw to target Financial firms

Malware researchers at security firm ProofPoint reported the Chinese TA459 APT has exploited the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability to target Financial firms. The notorious cyber espionage group tracked as TA459 APT has targeted analysts working at major financial firms using the recently patched CVE-2017-0199 Microsoft Office vulnerability. Experts at Proofpoint published a detailed analysis of the espionage campaign conducted […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2017

Number of WordPress Attacks powered by compromised routers is rapidly dropping

Experts from security firm WordFence reported a rapid reduction of WordPress attacks originating from hundreds of ISPs worldwide. Experts at the security firm Wordfence a few weeks ago reported that tens of thousands of flawed routers from dozens of ISPs worldwide were recruited in a botnet used to power several types of attacks against WordPress […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2017

Lenovo warns of IBM Storwize shipped with infected initialization USB drives

Some USB flash drives containing the initialization tool shipped with the IBM Storwize for Lenovo contain a malicious file. Some USB flash drives containing the initialization tool shipped with the IBM Storwize for Lenovo V3500, V3700 and V5000 Gen 1 storage systems contain a file that has been infected with malicious code. The Initialization Tool […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2017

Poorly designed apps leave millions of phones at risk of open port attack

Security experts demonstrated that insecure mobile applications leave millions of smartphones at risk of open port attack. A group of security researchers from the University of Michigan ( Yunhan Jack Jia, Qi Alfred Chen, Yikai Lin, Chao Kong, and Prof. Z. Morley Mao) discovered a security hole in hundreds of applications in Google Play Store that could […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2017

Cracking APT28 traffic in a few seconds

Security experts from security firm Redsocks published an interesting report on how to crack APT28 traffic in a few seconds. Introduction APT28 is a hacking group involved in many recent cyber incidents. The most recent attack allegedly attributed to this group is the one to French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign. Incident response to this Advanced […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2017

The Hajime Botnet continues to grow and implements a new attack technique

The mysterious Hajime Botnet continues to grow and reached 300,000 IoT Devices, the author also implemented a new attack method. Recently experts from Symantec spotted a new IoT botnet dubbed Hajime that is spreading quickly in the last months, mostly in Brazil and Iran. The Hajime malware was first spotted in October 2016, it implements the same mechanism […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2017

Linux Shishiga malware, a threat in dangerous evolution

Malware researchers from security firm ESET have discovered a new Linux threat dubbed Shishiga malware targeting systems in the wild. Malware researchers from ESET have discovered a new Linux malware dubbed Linux/Shishiga targeting systems in the wild. The Linux/Shishiga malware uses four different protocols (SSH, Telnet, HTTP and BitTorrent) implements a modular architecture by using Lua scripts. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2017

Europol, European police agencies and private actors dismantled cybercrime ring

The Europol coordinated an international operation that dismantled a cybercrime ring that was offering services and tools to conceal malware. The Europol dismantled a cybercrime ring as the result of a joint investigation conducted by Spanish and British law enforcement authorities (The Spanish National Police, the UK’s Regional Cyber Crime Unit for Tackling North West […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2017

Ops, hackers can exfiltrate data from air-gapped networks through a malware controlled via a scanner

A group of Israeli researchers has devised a new technique to exfiltrate data from a PC in an air-gapped network through malware controlled via scanners. The team was composed of Ben Nassi, a graduate student at the Cyber Security Research Center at Ben-Gurion University, and his advisor Yuval Elovici, based on an idea of the prominent cryptographer Adi Shamir. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2017

The Stuxnet vulnerability is still one of the most exploited flaws in the wild by hackers

A new report published by Kaspersky confirms that Stuxnet exploits targeting a Windows Shell Vulnerability is still widely adopted by threat actors. The case that I’m going to present to you demonstrates the importance of patch management and shows the effects of the militarization of cyberspace. Unpatched software is an easy target for hackers that can exploit […]

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Chinese TA459 APT exploits CVE-2017-0199 flaw to target Financial firms

Number of WordPress Attacks powered by compromised routers is rapidly dropping

Lenovo warns of IBM Storwize shipped with infected initialization USB drives

Poorly designed apps leave millions of phones at risk of open port attack

Cracking APT28 traffic in a few seconds

The Hajime Botnet continues to grow and implements a new attack technique

Linux Shishiga malware, a threat in dangerous evolution

Europol, European police agencies and private actors dismantled cybercrime ring

Ops, hackers can exfiltrate data from air-gapped networks through a malware controlled via a scanner

The Stuxnet vulnerability is still one of the most exploited flaws in the wild by hackers

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