Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2019
The APT10 group has added two new malware loaders to its arsenal and used in attacks aimed at government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. In April 2019, China-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as APT10 has added two new loaders to its arsenal and used it against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. The group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2019
GreyNoise experts detected scans for systems vulnerable to the BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) vulnerability from exclusively Tor exit nodes. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including an RDS vulnerability dubbed BlueKeep that can be exploited to carry out WannaCry-like attack. The issue is a remote code execution flaw in Remote Desktop Services (RDS) that it can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2019
The US real-estate insurance biz, First American Financial, accidentally leaked customers’ highly personal files online, hundreds of millions of documents. The US real-estate insurance company First American Financial Corp. accidentally leaked hundreds of millions of documents. The company has more than 18,000 employees and brought in more than $5.7 billion in 2018. Roughly 885 million insurance-related documents […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2019
According to Sectigo, most of the certificates used to sign the malware submitted to VirusTotal and issued by the company were expired and were already revoked. This week experts at Chronicle published a study on signed malware registered on VirusTotal that states that most of the digital certificates used to sign malware samples found on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EUBloggerAwards2018 Dutch intelligence investigate alleged Huawei ‘backdoor Salesforce […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2019
This week NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg explained during a conference at the Cyber Defence Pledge conference in London how the Alliance is countering cyber threats. This week during the Cyber Defence Pledge conference in London, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg explained how the Alliance is countering cyber threats. Stoltenberg declared that NATO is pushing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2019
Security experts at Sophos have detected a wave of attacks targeting Windows servers that are running MySQL databases with the intent of delivering the GandCrab ransomware Sophos researchers have observed a wave of attacks targeting Windows servers that are running MySQL databases, threat actors aim at delivering the GandCrab ransomware. This is the first time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2019
0patch, released a security patch to address the BlueKeep vulnerability, that can be deployed by administrators to protect always-on servers. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including an RDS vulnerability dubbed BlueKeep that can be exploited to carry out WannaCry-like attack. The issue is a remote code execution flaw in Remote Desktop […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2019
GitHub announced the introduction of several new tools and security features to help developers secure their code. The popular code repository hosting service GitHub continues its efforts in helping its customers in developing and maintaining a secure code. “Ninety-nine percent of new software projects depend on open source code. This extensive code reuse helps everyone […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2019
Snapchat internal staff has allegedly abused their role in the company to spy on Snapchat users using and internal tools and steal data. Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app that makes pictures, videos, and messages (snaps) available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. Initially, it was only allowing person-to-person photo sharing, but now […]
