Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2019
Experts at Wandera’s threat research team discovered two adware apps on the Google Play Store that were downloaded 1.5M+ times. Researchers at Wandera discovered two adware selfie filter camera apps on the Google Play that were pushing ads and that can record audio. The bad news is that the two apps were downloaded 1.5M+ times. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2019
Cofense researchers spotted a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States to infect them with the Amadey malware. Security experts at Cofense uncovered a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States attempting to infect them with a new piece of malware named Amadey. The Amadey bot is a quite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2019
Agent Tesla is a fully customizable password info-stealer offered as malware-as-a-service, many cyber criminals are choosing it as their preferred recognition tool. Introduction Nowadays the Malware-As-A-Service is one of the criminal favorite ways to breach security perimeter. Agent Tesla is one of these “commodity malware”. It is a fully customizable password info-stealer and many cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2019
There is the same group behind the hack of the celebrity Instagram accounts, attackers used the same attack pattern to push scams. The same threat actor continues to target celebrity Instagram accounts to push scam sites to their wide audience. Recently the Instagram account of the popular actor Robert Downey Jr. (43.3M followers) has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2019
Trend Micro researchers reported that a Magecart group has hacked the websites of two hotel chains to inject scripts targeting Android and iOS users. Researchers discovered a series of incidents involving software credit card skimmer used by Magecart to hit the booking websites of hotel chains. In early September, the researchers discovered a JavaScript code onto two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2019
A critical security flaw in Harbor cloud native registry for container images could be exploited to obtain admin privileges on a vulnerable hosting system. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researcher Aviv Sasson discovered a critical vulnerability in Harbor cloud native registry for container images. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-16097, could be exploited to take control […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2019
Emotet is back, its operators leverage a recently introduced spear-phishing technique to deliver their malware, they are hijacking legitimate email conversations. In 2019, security experts haven’t detected any activity associated with Emotet since early April, when researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign distributing a new Emotet Trojan variant that compromises devices and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2019
Researchers at Guardicore Labs reported that the Smominru botnet is rapidly spreading and now is already infecting over 90,000 machines each month around worldwide. In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. According to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2019
Researchers at Greenbone Networks vulnerability analysis and management company discovered 400 Million medical radiological images exposed online via unsecured PACS servers. The experts at Greenbone Networks vulnerability analysis and management company discovered 600 unprotected servers exposed online that contained medical radiological images. The research was conducted between mid-July 2019 and early September 2019. The unprotected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2019
Experts at Cisco Talos group discovered a vulnerability in the AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL driver that could lead to VM escape. Researchers at Cisco Talos group discovered a vulnerability in the AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL driver that be exploited by an attacker to escale the VM and execute code on the host. This flaw affects […]
