Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2019
Several threat actors are still exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability in the popular compression software WinRAR. Several threat actors are actively exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability recently addressed in WinRAR. The exploitation of the flaw in the wild is worrisome because the WinRAR software doesn’t have an auto-update feature, leaving millions of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2019
Experts from Qihoo 360 disclosed technical details of the actively exploited Windows zero-day flaw CVE-2019-0808 recently patched by Microsoft. Researchers at the security firm Qihoo 360 disclosed technical details of the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2019-0808 that was recently patched by Microsoft. The vulnerability was reported to Microsoft by researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group that observed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2019
While we were thinking about a way to escalate privileges during a pen-test, we discovered that most Windows installations were vulnerable to binary planting. A long time ago, while we were thinking about a way to escalate privileges during a pen-test, we discovered that most Windows installations were vulnerable to binary planting. We contacted Microsoft, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2019
A new piece of PoS malware appeared in the threat landscape, the malicious code dubbed GlitchPOS has been found on a crimeware forum. The GlitchPOS malware is able to steal credit card numbers (Track1 and Track2) from the memory of the infected system, it uses a regular expression to perform this task. The malicious code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2019
Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has uncovered a malicious code designed to steal customers’ payment data on seven online stores in the UK and the US. The injected code has been identified as a new JavaScript Sniffer (JS Sniffer), dubbed by Group-IB as GMO. Group-IB Threat Intelligence team first discovered the GMO JS Sniffer on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2019
Experts at Z-Lab Yoroi/Cybaze have conducted an interesting analysis on the risks for users downloading films, games, and software through Torrent. Digital media sharing is one of the most relevant phenomena since the advent of the internet. During the 80’s and 90’s, with the rapid growth the Internet, people around the world started sharing digital […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2019
Cisco released security updates to address a critical vulnerability in its Cisco Common Services Platform Collector (CSPC) software. Cisco released security updates to address a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-1723, that consists in the presence of a default account with a static password. The account hasn’t admin privileges, but it could be exploited by an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2019
Security researcher Simon Scannell from RIPS Technologies, has discovered a new CSRF vulnerability in WordPress, that could potentially lead to remote code execution attacks. The flaw is a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) that resides in the comment section of WordPress that is enabled by default, the issue affects all WordPress versions prior to version 5.1.1. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2019
Experts at security firm Dr. Web revealed that 39% of all existing Counter-Strike 1.6 game servers online are malicious, an attacker is exploiting zero-day flaws in game clients. Bad news for gamers of the popular game Counter-Strike, according to the experts at the security firm Dr. Web, 39% of all existing Counter-Strike 1.6 game servers […]
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, […]
