Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Federal Emergency Management Agencys (FEMA) data leak exposes data of 2.3M survivors Malware Static Analysis Microsoft Defender APT now protects also macOS WordPress Social Warfare plugin zero-day exploited in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2019
Microsoft this week announced that it had taken control of 99 domains used by an Iran-linked APT group tracked by the company as Phosphorus. Microsoft has recently announced that it had taken control of 99 domains used by an Iran-linked APT group tracked by the tech giant as Phosphorus (aka APT35, Charming Kitten, NewsBeef, Newscaster […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2019
North Korea-linked Lazarus group made the headlines again, it has been leveraging PowerShell to target both Windows and macOS machines. The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group made has been leveraging PowerShell to target both Windows and macOS machines in a new wave of attacks. The discovery was made by experts at Kaspersky Lab, the campaign […]
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 27, 2019
The NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence team uncovered a credential harvesting campaign tracked as LUCKY ELEPHANT targeting mostly South Asian governments. Security experts at NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence team uncovered a credential harvesting campaign, tracked as LUCKY ELEPHANT, targeting mostly South Asian governments. The campaign was discovered in early March 2019, threat actors behind the LUCKY ELEPHANT campaign […]
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
March 25, 2019
Cyber security expert and founder of Yoroi has published a new tool that could be used to spot APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) through Malware streams. There are many ways to spot Advanced Persistent Threats, for example during a forensic analysis on “high rate incident” or having sandbox systems on critical infrastructures or again working as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2019
Russian APT groups are targeting European governments for cyber-espionage purposes ahead of the upcoming European elections. According to experts from FireEye, Russia-linked APT28 (aka Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, Sednit, and STRONTIUM) and Sandworm Team (also TeleBots) cyberespionage groups are targeting European governments for cyber-espionage purposes ahead of the upcoming European elections. The activity of the Russia-linked groups is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2019
Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, on Money2020 Asia presented the analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018 and concluded that cybercriminals show an increased interest in Asia […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2019
One of the zero-day flaws (CVE-2019-0797) patched this week by Microsoft has been exploited in targeted attacks by several threats groups, including FruityArmor and SandCat APT groups. This week, Microsoft released Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2019 that address 64 flaws, including two Windows zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in targeted attacks. One of the flaws, […]
