Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2018
Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing cyber espionage campaign aimed at Ukrainian government institutions and involving three different RATs, including the custom-made VERMIN. Security researchers from ESET uncovered an ongoing cyber espionage campaign aimed at Ukrainian government institutions, attackers used at least three different remote access Trojans (RATs). The campaign was first spotted in January by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2018
Security researchers from Italian security firm TG Soft have uncovered an ongoing malware campaigns targeting Samsung service centers in Italy. “TG Soft’s Research Centre (C.R.A.M.) has analyzed the campaign of spear-phishing on 2 april 2018 targeting the service centers of Samsung Italy.” reads the analysis published by TG Soft. “The campaign analyzed is targeting only the service centers of Samsung […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2018
Researchers have developed a tool that poses as GPS satellites to deceive nearby GPS receivers and manipulate road navigation systems. Researchers have developed a tool that poses as GPS satellites to deceive nearby GPS receivers. The kit could be used to deceive receivers used by navigation systems and suggest drivers the wrong direction. “we explore […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2018
Hackers compromised the npm account of an ESLint maintainer and published malicious versions of eslint packages to the npm registry. Crooks compromised an ESLint maintainer’s account last week and uploaded malicious packages that attempted to steal login tokens from the npm software registry. npm is the package manager for JavaScript and the world’s largest software registry. ESLint is open […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘just said it’s not Russia,’ and President Trump believes him. Today the controversial meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump was held in Helsinki, but as expected Russian President denied any interference with the 2016 US election. After the meeting, Putin and Trump made a joint news conference and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2018
Cyber Defense Magazine July 2018 Edition has arrived. We hope you enjoy this month’s edition…packed with over 140 pages of excellent content. InfoSec Knowledge is Power. We have 6 years of eMagazines online with timeless content. Visit our online library by clicking here. Cyber Defense eMagazine July 2018 Edition has arrived.We hope you enjoy this month’s edition…packed with 140 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2018
The code hosting service GitHub added Python to the list of programming languages that it is able to auto-scan for known vulnerabilities. Good news for GitHub users, the platform added Python to the list of programming languages that it is able to auto-scan for known vulnerabilities. In March, the code hosting service GitHub confirmed that the introduction […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2018
The Director of the National Intelligence Dan Coats warned last week of a devastating cyber threat to US infrastructure, he said that “warning lights are blinking red again.” The Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned last week of a devastating cyber threat to US infrastructure, he used the following words to express his concerns: “warning lights […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2018
A security researcher discovered that the IoT search engine ZoomEye has cached login passwords for tens of thousands of Dahua DVRs. The IoT search engine ZoomEye has cached login passwords for tens of thousands of Dahua DVRs, the discovery was made by security researcher Ankit Anubhav, Principal Researcher at NewSky Security. Anubhav explained that the passwords […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2018
Researchers from the Z-Lab at CSE Cybsec analyzed a new collection of malware allegedly part of a new espionage campaign conducted by the APT28 group. It was a long weekend for the researchers from the Z-Lab at CSE Cybsec that completed the analysis a number of payloads being part of a new cyber espionage campaign […]
