Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2020
Hackers broke into the networks of federal agencies and FireEye by compromising SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products. The cyber espionage group has tampered with updates released by IT company SolarWinds, which provides its products to government agencies, military, and intelligence offices, two people familiar with the matter told the Reuters agency. Nation-state actors, allegedly Russia-linked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2020
GitHub has issued a security alert warning of a malware campaign that is spreading on its platform via boobytrapped NetBeans Java projects. GitHub has issued a security alert warning of a piece of malware dubbed Octopus Scanner that is spreading on its platform via boobytrapped NetBeans Java projects. GitHub’s security team discovered the malicious code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2019
The popular security firm Avast disclosed today a security breach that impacted its internal network accessed via a compromised VPN profile. The security firm Avast disclosed today a security breach that impacted its internal network, according to a statement published by the company, the intent of the hackers was to carry out a supply chain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2019
Airbus Hit by Series of Cyber Attacks on Suppliers: Security Sources The European multinational aerospace corporation Airbus has been hit by a series of attacks, hackers targeted its suppliers to steal Intellectual property. The European aerospace giant Airbus has been hit by a series of supply chain attacks, threat actors hit its suppliers in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2019
Experts at Kaspersky Lab linked the recent supply-chain attack targeted ASUS users to the “ShadowPad” threat actor and the CCleaner incident. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab linked the recent supply-chain attack that hit ASUS users (tracked as Operation ShadowHammer) to the “ShadowPad” threat actor. Experts also linked the incident to the supply chain attack that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2019
Users that have downloaded the VSDC multimedia editing software between 2019-02-21 and 2019-03-23, may have been infected with malware. Users that have downloaded the VSDC multimedia editing software between 2019-02-21 and 2019-03-23, may have been infected with a banking trojan and an information stealer. VSDC is a popular, free video editing and converting app and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2019
ASUS released security patches to fix the issues in the Live Update utility that were exploited by threat actors in Operation ShadowHammer. ASUS announced to have released a fix for the Live Update utility that was exploited by threat actors behind the Operation ShadowHammer to deliver malware to hundreds of users. The Operation ShadowHammer took […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2019
Operation ShadowHammer – ASUS is the last victim of a clamorous supply chain attack that delivered a backdoor to more than one million users, Kaspersky Lab reported. Over 1 million ASUS users may have been impacted by a supply chain attack that leveraged the ASUS Live Update utility to inject a backdoor in ASUS systems. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2018
Security experts reported a new strain of malware spreading in China, the malicious code rapidly infected over 100,000 PCs in just four days. Unfortunately, the number of infections is rapidly increasing because hackers compromised a supply chain. It is interesting to note that this ransomware requests victims to pay 110 yuan (nearly Euro 14) in ransom […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2018
Schneider Electric announced that some of the USB drives it has shipped with its Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor products were infected with malware. Schneider Electric has found a malicious code on the USB drives that have been shipped with Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor products. Both products are part of the solar energy […]
