Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2019
Magecart hackers inject card Skimmer in Forbes Subscription Site

The Magecart gang made the headlines again, the hackers this time compromised the Forbes magazine subscription website. The Magecart group is back, the hackers this time compromised injected a skimmers script into the Forbes magazine subscription website. The malicious traffic was spotted by the security expert Troy Mursch, Chief Research Officer of Bad Packets, on Wednesday. Magecart hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2019
BlackTech espionage group exploited ASUS update process to deliver Plead Backdoor

The BlackTech cyber-espionage group exploited the ASUS update process for WebStorage application to deliver the Plead backdoor. The cyber espionage group tracked as BlackTech compromised the ASUS update process for WebStorage application to deliver the Plead backdoor. The BlackTech group was first observed by ESET on July 2018, when it was abusing code-signing certificates stolen from D-Link for the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2019
SAP Security Patch Day for May 2019 fixes many missing authorization checks

SAP released SAP Security Patch Day for May 2019 that includes 8 Security Notes, 5 of which are updates to previously released Notes. Five Security Notes included in SAP Security Patch Day for May 2019 addressed missing authorization checks in SAP products, including Treasury and Risk Management, Solution Manager and ABAP managed systems, dbpool administration, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2019
Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses dangerous RDS flaw that opens to WannaCry-like attacks

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including an RDS flaw allowing WannaCry-Like attacks. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including a Windows zero-day flaw and an RDS vulnerability that can be exploited to carry out WannaCry-like attack. The zero-day vulnerability addressed by Microsoft Patch Tuesday […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2019
Adobe patches over 80 flaws in Flash, Acrobat Reader, and Media Encoder

Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address a critical flaw in Flash Player and more than 80 vulnerabilities in Acrobat products. Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address a total of 84 vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader products for Windows and macOS. The tech company addressed many critical vulnerabilities in its products, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2019
Millions of computers powered by Intel chips are affected by MDS flaws

Millions of computers powered by Intel processors are affected by a new class of vulnerabilities (MDS) that can leak potentially sensitive data. Researchers from multiple universities and security firms discovered a new class of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities that could be exploited with new side-channel attack methods dubbed Fallout, RIDL (Rogue In-Flight Data Load), and ZombieLoad. “On May […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2019
Thrangrycat flaw could allow compromising millions of Cisco devices

Security firm Red Balloon discovered a severe vulnerability dubbed Thrangrycat, in Cisco products that could be exploited to an implant persistent backdoor in many devices. Experts at Red Balloon Security disclosed two vulnerabilities in Cisco products. The first issue dubbed Thrangrycat, and tracked as CVE-2019-1649, affects multiple Cisco products that support Trust Anchor module (TAm). The issue […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2019
North Korea-linked ScarCruft APT adds Bluetooth Harvester to its arsenal

The North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft (aka APT37 and Group123) continues to expand its arsenal by adding a Bluetooth Harvester. North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft (aka APT37, Reaper, and Group123) continues to expand its arsenal by adding a Bluetooth Harvester. ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2019
Malware Training Sets: FollowUP

The popular expert Marco Ramilli provided a follow up to its Malware classification activity by adding a scripting section which would be useful for several purposes. On 2016 I was working hard to find a way to classify Malware families through artificial intelligence (machine learning). One of the first difficulties I met was on finding […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2019
Unprotected DB exposed PII belonging to nearly 90% of Panama citizens

Personally identifiable information belonging to roughly 90% of Panama citizens were exposed on a poorly configured Elasticsearch server. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch server exposing personally identifiable information belonging to nearly 90% of Panama citizens. Exposed data includes full names, birth dates, national ID numbers, medical insurance numbers, and other personal data. […]