Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2020
Security researchers spotted a new piece of DDoS bot dubbed Kaiji that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks. Last week, the popular security researcher MalwareMustDie and the experts at Intezer Labs spotted a new piece of malware dubbed Kaiji, that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks. The malicious code was designed to target […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2020
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning of cyber attacks against UK universities and scientific institutes involved in COVID-19 research. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned of targeted attacks against UK universities and scientific facilities that are involved in the COVID-19 research. The NCSC reported that nation-state actors are carrying out cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2020
The US DHS CISA agency issued a new alert that includes recommendations on how organizations should properly secure Microsoft Office 365 installs. The current COVID-19 pandemic is pushing organizations to adopt a growing number of cloud-based services, for this reason, the DHS CISA published a new alert that provides recommendations to secure Office 365 deployments. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2020
Hackers are conducting a mass-scanning the Internet for vulnerable Salt installs that could allow them to hack the organizations, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. Experts warn of hacking campaign that is targeting organization using the Salt platform for the management of their infrastructure, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. The attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2020
On Saturday, at around 8 pm (US Pacific coast), hackers have breached the LineageOS servers by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability. On Saturday, at around 8 pm (US Pacific coast), hackers have breached the LineageOS servers by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability. LineageOS is a free and open-source operating system for smartphones, tablet computers, and set-top boxes, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2020
A security glitch in the self-test coronavirus symptom checker developed by India’s Jio cell network exposed test results. While Coronavirus was spreading worldwide, India’s largest cell network Jio, a subsidiary of Reliance, has developed a coronavirus self-test symptom checker, days before the Indian government imposed a local lockdown to prevent the outbreak. The app was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2020
Today I am so happy to announce a big improvement in the cyber threats observatory (available for here). The main improvement sees the introduction of clustering stereotypes for each tracked malware family in three different behaviors: Domains, Files and Processes. Every malware does specific actions on domains, files and processes realms by meaning that every sample contacts several domain names, spawns specific processes and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2020
A hacker has leaked the details of 15 million users registered on Tokopedia, an Indonesian technology company specializing in e-commerce. Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company specializing in e-commerce, it currently operates Indonesia’s largest online store. The company has over 4200 employees and accounts for over 90 million active users every month. The hacker claims to have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2020
IBM X-Force researchers spotted a new COVID-19-themed campaign spreading the infamous TrickBot trojan through fake messages. IBM X-Force researchers uncovered a new COVID-19-themed campaign that is spreading the infamous TrickBot trojan through fake messages. The spam messages pretend to be sent by the Department of Labor’s Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and attempt to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2020
Phishing attacks impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams targeted as many as 50,000 Teams users to steal Office365 logins. Abnormal Security experts observed two separate phishing attacks impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams that targeted as many as 50,000 Teams users to steal Office365 logins. The popularity of Microsoft Teams has spiked as a result of the […]
