Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2020
Cisco released security patches to address numerous flaws in its products, including critical severity issues that affect IP Phones and UCS Director. The critical vulnerability fixed by Cisco affects IP Phones and resides on the webserver, the flaw could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute code with root privileges. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-3161, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2020
Cybaze-Yoroy ZLab researchers spotted a new variant of Ursnif that is targeting organizations in Italy. Introduction Ursnif is one of the most and widespread threats, it is delivered through malspam campaigns aimed at multiple industries across Italy and Europe. Recently, we have identified a new variant that is targeting Italian organizations. The malspam messages use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2020
Syrian-linked APT group SEA recently used COVID-19-themed lures as part of a long-running surveillance campaign, security researchers warn. Syrian hackers are behind a long-running campaign that has been active since January 2018 and that targets Arabic-speaking Android users. The campaign aimed at users in Syria and surrounding regions was spotted by experts from mobile security firm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2020
The shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) was victim of a malware-based attack that caused an outage recently. The shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) discloses a malware-based attack that took place on April 10. The incident affected the company’s data center and took down its website, msc.com, and its myMSC customer and vendor portal. “The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2020
At the end of February, I analyzed major black marketplaces searching for anything related to the Coronavirus outbreak, a month later things are completely changed. At the end of February, I published the analysis of major black marketplaces searching for anything related to the Coronavirus outbreak. While the COVID19 pandemic was spreading a global scale, specific goods became victims […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2020
Linksys has reset passwords for all its customers’ after learning on ongoing DNS hijacking attacks aimed at delivering malware. Crooks continue to launch Coronavirus-themed attacks, in the last weeks, experts observed hackers hijacking D-Link and Linksys routers to redirect users to COVID19-themed sites spreading malware. Hackers compromise D-Link and Linksys routers and change DNS settings to redirect users to bogus sites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2020
The United States agencies released a joint advisory warning of ‘significant cyber threat’ posed by North Korea-linked hackers to the global financial sector. The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a joint advisory that is warning organizations worldwide about the ‘significant cyber threat’ posed by the North Korean nation-state […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2020
Hackers are again attacking Portuguese banking organizations via Android Trojan-Banker. The threat is not new, hackers are again attacking clients of Portuguese banking organizations via a specially crafted Android Trojan-Banker from phishing campaigns launched from Brazil. The last occurrence this line was recorded on March 13rd, 2020, where a similar Trojan-Banker was disseminated targeting other […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2020
Hackers are selling two zero-day exploits for critical issues affecting the video conferencing software Zoom that would allow attackers to spy on communications. Hackers are offering for sale an exploit for a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Windows client for Zoom. The zero-day exploit goes for $500,000, hackers are also offering another exploit code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2020
Experts at email security firm Mimecast has uncovered a flight refund scam that attempts to exploit the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Researchers at email security firm Mimecast have uncovered a new flight refund scam that attempts to exploit the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. The campaign is simple as effective, scammers attempt to target individuals that are waiting […]
