Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2018
The former NSA hacker and malware researcher Patrick Wardle is back, this time he spotted a new remote access Trojan dubbed Coldroot RAT. The Coldroot RAT is a cross-platform that is targeting MacOS systems and the bad news is that AV software is not able to detect it. The malware acts as a keylogger on MacOS systems prior to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2018
Security researchers at Trustwave spotted a new malicious campaign that uses a multi-stage attack to deploy a password stealer. Researchers at Trustwave have spotted a new malware-based campaign that uses a multi-stage infection to deploy a password stealer malware. Hackers leverage the infamous Necurs botnet to distribute spam emails delivering Microsoft Office documents that embedded malicious macros. DOCX […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2018
The RubyGems 2.7.6 update released last week for RubyGems includes several security improvements and addresses several types of vulnerabilities. The new RubyGems 2.7.6 release addresses several vulnerabilities in Ruby Gems and implements several security improvements. The updates prevent path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root and during gem installation. The updates also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2018
The report published by the White House Council of Economic Advisers examines the cyberattacks cost that malicious cyber activities cause to the U.S. economy. How much cost cyber attacks to the US? According to a report published by the White House Council of Economic Advisers last week, the cyberattacks cost between $57 billion and $109 billion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2018
The Apple expert Mike Bombich discovered an APFS Filesystem vulnerability that could lead macOS losing data under certain conditions. A few days ago a ‘text bomb‘ bug was reported for Apple iOS and macOS apps, the issue can crash any Apple iPhone, iPad Or Mac. Now the Apple expert Mike Bombich discovered an APFS Filesystem vulnerability that could lead macOS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2018
Hacker Group Makes $3 Million by Installing Monero Miners on Jenkins Servers A criminal organization has made $3.4 million by compromising Jenkins servers and installing a Monero cryptocurrency miner dubbed JenkinsMiner. “The perpetrator, allegedly of Chinese origin, has been running the XMRig miner on many versions of Windows, and has already secured him over $3 million worth […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2018
On Saturday, Germany defense minister Ursula von der Leyen told CNBC that cyber attacks are the greatest challenge threatening global stability. The cybersecurity is a pillar of modern states, the string of recent massive attacks including NotPetya and WannaCry is the demonstration that we are all potential targets. Cyber attacks could hit governments, private companies and citizens in every […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · FSB arrested researchers at the Russian Federation Nuclear Center for using a supercomputer to mine Bitcoins · Hackers are exploiting the CVE-2018-0101 CISCO ASA flaw in attacks in the wild · Thousands of websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2018
Online safety for your kids is very important. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it needs to be hard work. The key thing is to learn how to get parental controls set up properly so that you won’t have to worry as much about online safety when your kids start to use the internet for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2018
Researchers at the MalwareHunterTeam spotted a new strain of ransomware called Saturn Ransomware, the name derives from the .saturn extension it appends to the name of the encrypted files. Currently, the malware requests victims of $300 USD payment that doubles after 7 days. Once infected a system, the Saturn Ransomware checks if it is running in a […]
