WannaCry

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2017
Eternal Blues scanner allowed to find 50,000 EternalBlue-vulnerable host

The Eternal Blues scanner allowed administrators worldwide to discover more than 50,000 computers vulnerable to the NSA-linked EternalBlue exploit. Recently the security researcher Elad Erez developed Eternal Blues, a free EternalBlue vulnerability scanner that could be used by administrators to assess networks. Now Elad Erez published data collected by the Eternal Blues over the two weeks, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2017
Researcher released Eternal Blues, a free EternalBlue vulnerability scanner

The security researcher Elad Erez developed Eternal Blues, a free EternalBlue vulnerability scanner that could be used to assess networks. Now systems administrators and hackers have a new free tool, dubbed Eternal Blues, to scan networks looking at computers vulnerable to the NSA EternalBlue exploit. EternalBlue is one of the hacking tools that the ShadowBrokers hacker group stolen to the NSA-linked […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2017
A new massive attack allegedly based on Petwrap ransomware hits organizations in several states

A new wave of cyber attacks is shocking the IT industry, a massive attack leveraging the Petwrap ransomware has infected systems across the world. A new wave of cyber attacks is shocking the IT industry, a few weeks after the WannaCry massive attack, security experts are facing a new threat that is rapidly spreading. Once […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2017
Rapid7 report millions of endpoints exposed via SMB, Telnet Ports

A study conducted by the security firm Rapid7 revealed that millions of devices remain exposed to cyber attacks via  SMB, Telnet, RDP, and other types of improper configurations. Rapid7 published the second report National Exposure Index that provides Internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide information about the global exposure of devices. The researchers scanned the Internet for improperly configured services, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2017
NSA EsteemAudit exploit could trigger a new WannaCry-like attack

Security experts from enSilo firm released a free patch for Windows systems vulnerable to the NSA-linked ESTEEMAUDIT Exploit. The WannaCry emergency could not be ended because the NSA dump leaked by the Shadow Brokers team included many other dangerous exploits. Last months the Shadow Brokers group released another batch of data containing exploit codes still unpatched by Microsoft such as […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2017
Wanadecrypt allows to recover files from Windows XP PCs infected by WannaCry without paying ransom

A security researcher developed a tool called wanadecrypt to restore encrypted files from Windows XP PCs infected by the WannaCry ransomware. The WannaCry ransomware made the headlines with the massive attack that hit systems worldwide during the weekend. The malicious code infected more than 200,000 computers across 150 countries in a matter of hours, it leverages the Windows […]