Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2019
SI-LAB captured a piece of the FlawedAmmyy malware that leverages undetected XLM macros as an Infection Vehicle to compromise user’s devices. In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 macro, also known as XLM macro, and used to download and execute a final […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2019
Cyber Defense Magazine March 2019 Edition has arrived. MARCH 2019 EDITION (RSA CONFERENCE PRINT EDITION & E-MAG COMING NEXT WEEK) Cyber Defense eMagazine March 2019 Edition has arrived. Sponsored by: Aristotle Insight HelpSystems Inky Regent University White Hat Security We hope you enjoy this month’s edition…packed with 157 pages of excellent content. InfoSec Knowledge is Power. We […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2019
Bug bounty platform HackerOne announced that two of its members have each earned more than $1 million by participating bug bounty programs. Bug bounty programs could be a profitable activity, the popular bug bounty platform HackerOne announced that two of its members have each earned more than $1 million by helping companies in discovering flaws […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2019
Adobe has released out-of-band updates to address a critical flaw in ColdFusion web application development platform that has been exploited in the wild. Adobe has released out-of-band updates to address a zero-day vulnerability in the ColdFusion web application development platform that has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-7816, has been described by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2019
Cisco addressed CVE-2019-1663critical flaw in several wireless routers that could be exploited by attackers to remotely execute code on the impacted devices. Cisco released security updates to address a critical flaw (CVE-2019-1663) in several wireless routers that could be exploited by attackers to remotely execute code on the impacted devices. The CVE-2019-1663 flaw received a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2019
Experts analyzed tools and intrusion methods used by theChina-linked cyber-espionage group Emissary Panda in attacks over the past 2 years. This morning I wrote about a large-scale cyber attack that hit the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in November 2016, Emissary Panda was suspected to be the culprit. Experts at Secureworks reports who investigated the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2019
Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab analyze a new GoLang botnet named GoBrut, the investigation allowed to discover that the bot supports a lot more features Introduction Malware written in Go programming language has roots almost a decade ago, few years after its first public release back in 2009: starting from InfoStealer samples discovered since 2012 and abused in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2019
Researchers from RiskIQ and FlashPoint analyzed the evolution of Magecart groups, in particular of a gang tracked as Group 4 that appears to be very sophisticated. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen Magecart groups at least since 2015. The gangs use to implant skimming script into compromised online stores in order to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2019
The popular in-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive has announced that it will shut down on March 8, 2019. The service made the headlines across the years because it was used by crooks to abuse computational resources of the victims that were visiting compromised websites hosting the Coinhive script. Coinhive was initially launched as a legitimate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2019
Security expert Marco Ramilli analyzed a new piece of malware apparently designed to target PIK-Group that implements ransomware, Trojan, and Miner capabilities. When an unknown sender suggests me to click on a super wired url, dropping a ZIP file straight in my box, by saying it’s getting the next targeted attack on a huge company, […]
