Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2019
Emotet is back, its operators leverage a recently introduced spear-phishing technique to deliver their malware, they are hijacking legitimate email conversations. In 2019, security experts haven’t detected any activity associated with Emotet since early April, when researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign distributing a new Emotet Trojan variant that compromises devices and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2019
Researchers at Guardicore Labs reported that the Smominru botnet is rapidly spreading and now is already infecting over 90,000 machines each month around worldwide. In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. According to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2019
Researchers at Greenbone Networks vulnerability analysis and management company discovered 400 Million medical radiological images exposed online via unsecured PACS servers. The experts at Greenbone Networks vulnerability analysis and management company discovered 600 unprotected servers exposed online that contained medical radiological images. The research was conducted between mid-July 2019 and early September 2019. The unprotected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2019
Experts at Cisco Talos group discovered a vulnerability in the AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL driver that could lead to VM escape. Researchers at Cisco Talos group discovered a vulnerability in the AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL driver that be exploited by an attacker to escale the VM and execute code on the host. This flaw affects […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2019
Trend Micro researchers spotted a piece of Linux cryptocurrency miner, dubbed Skidmap that leverages kernel-mode rootkits to evade the detection. Skidmap is a new piece of crypto-miner detected by Trend Micro that target Linux machines, it uses kernel-mode rootkits to evade the detection. This malware outstands similar miners because of the way it loads malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2019
Australia ‘s intelligence is sure that China is behind the cyberattacks that hit its parliament and political parties, but decided to not publicly accuse it. According to the Reuters agency, Australia’s intelligence has evidence that the attacks that hit its parliament and political parties were orchestrated by China. Anyway the Australian government decided to not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2019
The news is shocking, thousands of Google Calendars are leaking private information posing a severe threat to the privacy of the users. Thousands of Google Calendars are leaking private information online threatening the privacy of the users. Google Calendar has more than q billion users that can potentially expose their private affairs due to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2019
Tens of millions of records belonging to passengers of two airline companies owned by Lion Air have been exposed and exchanged on forums. Data belonging to passengers of two airline companies owned by Lion Air have been exposed and exchanged on forums. The information was left exposed online on an unsecured Amazon bucket, the records […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2019
Researchers discovered many flaws in over a dozen small office/home office (SOHO) routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Security experts have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in over a dozen small office/home office (SOHO) routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The research is part of a project dubbed SOHOpelessly Broken 2.0 conducted Independent Security Evaluators (ISE). In […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2019
Experts at ReversingLabs spotted a threat actor buying digital certificates by impersonating legitimate entities and then selling them on the black market. Researchers at ReversingLabs have identified a new threat actor that is buying digital certificates by impersonating company executives, and then selling them on the black market. The experts discovered that digital certificates are then […]
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