Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Coronavirus-themed attacks March 15 – March 21, 2020 Google addresses high severity bugs in Chrome Keepnet Labs accidentally exposed an unprotected database with 5 Billion previously leaked records Security firm accidentally exposed an unprotected database with 5 Billion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2020
The FIN7 APT group has been targeting businesses with malicious USB drives and Teddy Bears sent to the victims, the FBI warns. The FBI is warning of a new wave of attacks carried out by the FIN7 APT group that is sending to the victims devices acting as a keyboard (HID Emulator USB) when plugged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2020
Experts discovered an easily exploitable heap-based buffer overflow flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-10245, that exists in the CODESYS web server. A critical heap-based buffer overflow flaw in a web server for the CODESYS automation software for engineering control systems could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to crash a server or execute arbitrary code. CODESYS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2020
Experts from Qihoo 360’s NetLab recently spotted two zero-day campaigns targeting DrayTek enterprise-grade networking devices. Since December 2019, researchers from Qihoo 360 observed two different attack groups that are employing two zero-days exploits to take over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside corporate networks. While Netlab360 has found about ~100,000 devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2020
AMD admitted that a hacker has stolen files related to some of its graphics products, but it downplayed the potential impact of the hack. AMD admitted that a hacker that goes online with the moniker “Palesa” has stolen source code files related to some of its graphics products, but it downplayed the potential impact of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2020
Google announced to have warned users of almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks during 2019. Google shared data on alerts related to state-sponsored attacks, the tech giant revealed that it issued almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks to its users during 2019. The number of alerts decreased by 25% […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2020
Operators behind the Ryuk Ransomware continue to target hospitals even as these organizations are involved in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. The threat actors behind the infamous Ryuk Ransomware continue to target hospitals, even as they are involved in containing the Coronavirus outbreak. The decision of the operators is not aligned with principal ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2020
Operation Poisoned News – Experts observed a campaign aimed at infecting the iPhones of users in Hong Kong with an iOS backdoor that allows attackers to spy on them. Security experts at Trend Micro have observed a campaign aimed at infecting the iPhones of users in Hong Kong with an iOS backdoor tracked as lightSpy. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2020
An unauthenticated insecure direct object reference (IDOR) issue in VLC for iOS could allow a local attacker to steal media from the storage. VLC for iOS was vulnerable to an unauthenticated insecure direct object reference (IDOR) which could allow a local attacker to steal media from the storage by just navigating to the source URL/IP. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2020
The number of Coronavirus-themed attacks continues to increase, crooks hijack D-Link and Linksys routers to redirect users to sites spreading COVID19-themed malware. Crooks continue to launch Coronavirus-themed attacks, experts observed hackers hijacking D-Link and Linksys routers to redirect users to COVID19-themed sites spreading malware. Hackers compromiseD-Link and Linksys routers and change DNS settings to redirect […]
