Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2019
Experts from Qualys Research Labs discovered four high-severity security flaws in OpenBSD, one of which is a type authentication bypass issue. Researchers from Qualys Research Labs discovered four high-severity security vulnerabilities in OpenBSD, a type authentication bypass issue and three privilege escalation bugs. The three issued could be exploited by local users or malware to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2019
Analyzing how tactics, techniques and procedures of the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group evolve over the time. APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). It is also known as Sofacy Group (by Kaspersky) or STRONTIUM (by Microsoft) and it’s used to target Aereospace, Defence, Governmente Agencies, International […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2019
Experts spotted a piece of malware dubbed ZeroCleare that has been used in highly targeted attacks aimed at energy and industrial organizations in the Middle East. Security experts at IBM X-Force found a piece of malware dubbed ZeroCleare (the name ZeroCleare comes from the path in the binary file) that has been used in highly targeted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2019
Experts at Cisco Talos found two vulnerabilities in the GoAhead embedded web server, including a critical remote code execution flaw. GoAhead is the world’s most popular, tiny embedded web server. It is developed by EmbedThis that defines it as compact, secure and simple to use. GoAhead is deployed in hundreds of millions of devices and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2019
A vulnerability in the Microsoft OAuth implementation exposes Azure cloud accounts to takeover. The vulnerability affects the way Microsoft applications use OAuth for authentication, these applications trust certain third-party domains and sub-domains that are not registered by Microsoft. Experts from Cyberark discovered the following three vulnerable Microsoft applications that trust these unregistered domains Portfolios, O365 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2019
The US gunmaker Smith & Wesson was hacked late last month in a Magecart attack, attackers injected a malicious software skimmer. A new Magecart attack made the headlines, the victim is the American gunmaker Smith & Wesson. The hack took place last month, the attackers planted a malicious software skimmer on its website to steal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2019
Experts discovered several DLL hijacking flaws in Kaspersky Secure Connection, Trend Micro Maximum Security, and Autodesk Desktop Application. Researchers from SafeBreach discovered several vulnerabilities in Kaspersky Secure Connection, Trend Micro Maximum Security, and Autodesk Desktop Application products that could be exploited by hackers for DLL preloading, code execution, and privilege escalation. The first issue in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2019
Ohio detected and neutralized a cyber attack against its election systems earlier this month, it was traced to a Russian-owned company. Ohio officials thwarted a cyber attack against its election infrastructure earlier this month, the state’s elections chief announced. According to the Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the cyber attack was “relatively unsophisticated” and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2019
Security experts disclosed a vulnerability dubbed StrandHogg that has been exploited by tens of malicious Android apps. Security experts at Promon disclosed a vulnerability, dubbed StrandHogg, that has been exploited by tens of malicious Android apps. The name StrandHogg comes from an old Norse term that refers to a tactic adopted by the Vikings that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2019
Experts discovered a new malware dubbed Clop ransomware that attempts to remove Malwarebytes and other security products. Security researcher Vitali Kremez discovered a new malware dubbed Clop ransomware that targets Windows systems and attempts to disable security products running on the infected systems. The malicious code executes a small program, just before starting the encryption […]
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