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Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2017
Security experts link WannaCry ransomware to Lazarus Group

In the IT security community several experts start linking the WannaCry ransomware to the Lazarus Group due to similarities in the attack codes. The security researcher at Google Neel Mehta published a mysterious tweet using the #WannaCryptAttribution hashtag. What did he mean? 9c7c7149387a1c79679a87dd1ba755bc @ 0x402560, 0x40F598ac21c8ad899727137c4b94458d7aa8d8 @ 0x10004ba0, 0x10012AA4#WannaCryptAttribution — Neel Mehta (@neelmehta) May 15, 2017 According […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2017
It’s Monday, how to avoid being infected with the WannaCry ransomware

The number of victims would rise on Monday when a large number of users will be back at work, then how to protect your systems from the WannaCry ransomware. The massive WannaCry attack targeted systems worldwide, according to the Europol the number of cyber attack hits 200,000 in at least 150 countries. The number of […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2017
Experts at RedSocks analyzed the massive WannaCry Ransomware attack

Currently we are seeing a large scale WannaCry ransomware outbreak. This ransomware outbreak is more devastating than others because it spreads laterally. Enjoy the RedSocks ‘s analysis. Who does it affect: Any Windows computer without Windows Patch MS17-010. What to do: Apply patch MS17-010 immediately. MS17-010 The key factor in the ‘success’ of this malware strain called […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2017
WannaCry – Microsoft issued emergency patches for Windows XP and Server 2003

Microsoft issued security patches for Windows XP and Server 2003 in response to the WannaCry ransomware attacks. On Friday, the WannaCry ransomware infected systems at organizations and critical infrastructure across at least 74 countries leveraging NSA exploits, at least 120,000 computers worldwide have been hit in a few hours. The WannaCry exploits the NSA EternalBlue / […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2017
Experts discovered a kill switch to slow the spreading of the WannaCry ransomware

The WannaCry ransomware worm infected systems at organizations and critical infrastructure across at least 74 countries leveraging NSA exploits. Experts discovered a Kill Switch for the threat. It was a Black Friday for cyber security, organizations and critical infrastructure across at least 74 countries have been infected by the WannaCry ransomware worm, aka WanaCrypt, WannaCrypt or Wcry. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2017
Massive ransomware attack leveraging on WannaCry hits systems in dozens of countries

WannaCry ransomware attack is infecting systems in dozens of countries leveraging NSA exploit codes leaked by the hacker group Shadow Brokers. A Massive ransomware attack targets UK hospitals and Spanish banks, the news was confirmed by Telefónica that was one of the numerous victims of the malicious campaign. The newspaper El Pais reported the massive attack, experts at […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2017
Cisco patched CVE-2017-3881 IOS XE Vulnerability leaked in CIA Vault 7 Dump

Cisco patched the critical CVE-2017-3881 flaw that affects CISCO Catalyst switches and that can be potentially exploited by attackers to hijack networks. Cisco patched a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-3881, affecting its CISCO Catalyst switches that can be potentially exploited by attackers to hijack networks. The vulnerability was disclosed in the CIA Vault 7 data leak, according to Switchzilla […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2017
The Rakos botnet – Exploring a P2P Transient Botnet From Discovery to Enumeration

The Rakos botnet – Exploring a P2P Transient Botnet From Discovery to Enumeration. 1. Introduction We recently deployed a high interaction honeypots expecting it to be compromised by a specific malware. But in the first few days, instead of getting infected by the expected malware, it received a variety of attacks ranging from SSH port forwarding […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2017
The Supply chain of the HandBrake Mac software compromised to spread Proton malware

Maintainers of the HandBrake video transcoder are warning Mac users who recently downloaded the software that they may have been infected with malware. Maintainers of the open-source HandBrake video transcoder are warning Mac users who recently downloaded the application that they may have been infected with malware.Mac users who downloaded and installed the program from May […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2017
Malwaresearch – A command line tool to find malware on Openmalware.org

Malwaresearch is a command line tool to find malware on Openmalware.org, it was developed to facilitate and speed up the process of finding and downloading malware samples. The tool was developed to facilitate and speed up the process of finding and downloading malware samples via the command line interface. We’ve made use of the API provided by […]