Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2015
The Ramnit botnet has been shut down in a joint effort by the Europol and the security firms Symantec, Microsoft, and Anubis Networks. Another success For the Europol and its allies Microsoft, Symantec, and Anubis Networks. The organizations in a joint effort have shut down command and control servers of the popular Ramnit botnet. The Joint Cybercrime […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2015
The experts at the IT Department of the EU parliament bans the Microsoft mobile Outlook app due to the recently disclosed privacy and security issues. A few day ago I wrote about serious security issues for day ago I wrote about serious security issues for Microsoft mobile Outlook app, the researcher and Head of Development at midpoints […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2015
Microsoft issued a security advisory for the JASBUG critical flaw, affecting all Windows OSs, that could be remotely exploitable. The news of the day is that a 15-year-old vulnerability in all Microsoft systems was fixed by the last critical patch issued by the company. The vulnerability, dubbed JASBUG and coded as CVE-2015-0008, could be exploited by an attacker to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2015
Cisco experts discovered a phishing campaign that is spreading fake Volume License Trojan Chanitor to corporate users and is able to evade sandboxes. A few weeks ago, multiple Cisco Managed Threat Defense (MTD) customers received an email that appeared as sent by the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC), which contains a link to login to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2015
A researcher has discovered a series of security issues in the newborn iOS Outlook app that allows Microsoft to access user emails and credentials. Security researcher and Head of Development at midpoints GmbH and IBM Champion René Winkelmeyer has published a blog post to warn about security issues in the newborn iOS Outlook app. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2015
Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a spam campaign that tricks antispam filters by relying on macros in Empty Word Documents. Security experts at BitDefender observed a new tactic adopted by spammers that rely on emails with an empty Word document in the attachment to bypass anti-spam filters. The social engineering strategy adopted by spammers to lure victims into […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2015
GreatFire revealed that the popular Microsoft Outlook emailing service was subjected to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack in China. This time the popular Outlook email service was allegedly hacked by Chinese authorities. The Outlook email service was not reachable in China over the weekend and according the to experts at the GreatFire organization, Chinese Government run a man-in-the-middle […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2015
Google Project Zero team disclosed a new unpatched flaw affecting Windows 8.1 systems, the cyber security community is divided between those for and against. The Google Project Zero team has disclosed the details of two more unpatched Windows vulnerabilities due to its disclosure policy. Google has released the details of another Windows vulnerability that Microsoft failed to fix […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2015
Security Experts at Microsoft discovered a new variant of CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware that adopts I2P Anonymity Network for C&C Communications. A new version of CryptoWall ransomware has been detected in the wild by experts at Microsoft, just a week after I reported that Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group detected a new strain of the same […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2015
Dell SecureWorks detected the Skeleton Key malware, which modifies authentication process on Active Directory (AD) systems protected by only passwords. The experts at Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit(TM) (CTU) have recently discovered a malware dubbed Skeleton Key that bypasses single-factor authentication on Active Directory (AD) systems. The attackers can use to have total access to remote […]
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