Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2019
Massive attacks bypass MFA on Office 365 and G Suite accounts via IMAP Protocol

Threat actors targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Over the past months, threat actors have targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Experts at Proofpoint conducted an interesting study of massive attacks against accounts […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2019
US-CERT warns of New Zealand mosque shooting scams and malware campaigns

In the wake of the New Zealand mosque shooting, the CISA recommends users to remain vigilant on possible scams and malware attacks. Yesterday the horrible mass mosque shooting in New Zealand made the headlines, fifty people were killed. A gunman used GoPro to transmit a live stream of the massacre at a mosque. Despite social […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2019
Israeli Candidate for PM Benny Gantz hacked by Iranian cyberspies

Israeli media reported this week that the Shin Bet internal security service warned Benny Gantz that Iranian cyber spies hacked his cellphone exposing his personal data. Iranian hackers targeted the campaign of the former Israeli military chief Benny Gantz who is a leading challenger to Prime Minister Netanyahu in next elections. According to the Israeli […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2019
German legislative body wants to tighten penalties against black marketplace operators

Germany’s states have decided to criminalize black marketplace operators with the introduction of specific federal legislation. Germany’s states have voted to punish operators of dark web platforms with the introduction of federal legislation. The legislation aims at criminalizing every operator behind darkweb marketplaces where illegal activities take place. This Friday, therefore, the German Federal Council […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2019
Secur Solutions Group data leak exposes 800,000 Singapore blood donors

Secur Solutions Group data leak – Another clamorous data leak made the headlines, personal information of 808,201 blood donors in Singapore was exposed online. The news was first reported by The Straits Times, the huge trove of data was contained in a database operated by the Secur Solutions Group Pte Ltd (SSG). People who registered […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2019
It is the first time in the history that civic groups hold a protest against a national CERT

Demonstration in front of the National CERT of Philippines for failing to act on cyber attacks targeting regime critical media and civil society organizations On March 12, the World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, media and civilsociety organizations in Philippines held a demonstration in front ofNCERT (National Computer Emergency Response Team) to protest against the negligence of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2019
Recently fixed WinRAR bug actively exploited in the wild

Several threat actors are still exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability in the popular compression software WinRAR. Several threat actors are actively exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability recently addressed in WinRAR. The exploitation of the flaw in the wild is worrisome because the WinRAR software doesn’t have an auto-update feature, leaving millions of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2019
Experts published details of the actively exploited CVE-2019-0808 Windows Flaw

Experts from Qihoo 360 disclosed technical details of the actively exploited Windows zero-day flaw CVE-2019-0808 recently patched by Microsoft. Researchers at the security firm Qihoo 360 disclosed technical details of the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2019-0808 that was recently patched by Microsoft. The vulnerability was reported to Microsoft by researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group that observed […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2019
A few binary planting 0-days for Windows

While we were thinking about a way to escalate privileges during a pen-test, we discovered that most Windows installations were vulnerable to binary planting. A long time ago, while we were thinking about a way to escalate privileges during a pen-test, we discovered that most Windows installations were vulnerable to binary planting. We contacted Microsoft, but […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2019
GlitchPOS PoS Malware appears in the cybercrime underground

A new piece of PoS malware appeared in the threat landscape, the malicious code dubbed GlitchPOS has been found on a crimeware forum. The GlitchPOS malware is able to steal credit card numbers (Track1 and Track2) from the memory of the infected system, it uses a regular expression to perform this task. The malicious code […]