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Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2018
Adobe issued a critical out-of-band patch to address CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw

Adobe releases a critical out-of-band patch for CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw, the security updates address a total of 7 vulnerabilities. Adobe address seven vulnerability in Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC, including one critical vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. “Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2018
Access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo

Security experts at Flashpoint discovered the availability of the access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo A new report published by researchers at Flashpoint revealed the availability on an underground hacking forum for Russian-speaking users of access to over 3,000 breached websites. “Access to approximately 3,000 breached websites has been discovered for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2018
Dissecting the first Gafgyt bot implementing the “VanillaUPX technique”

Experts at the CSE Cybsec Z-Lab have found a Gafgyt variant implementing the VanillaUPX technique recently presented in a cybersecurity conference A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet is spreading in the last hours and experts of the CSE Cybsec Z-Lab have found it with the support of the Italian cyber security experts @Odisseus and GranetMan. The new […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2018
Mirai authors avoid the jail by helping US authorities in other investigations

Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. I’m following the evolution of Mirai botnet since MalwareMustDie shared with me the findings of its investigation in August 2016. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2018
Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. The first data that emerged […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2018
Flaw in Western Digital My Cloud exposes the content to hackers

An authentication bypass vulnerability in Western Digital My Cloud NAS could allow hackers to access the content of the storage Researchers at security firm Securify have discovered an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Western Digital My Cloud platform that could be exploited by attackers to gain admin-level access to the device via an HTTP request. The flaw, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2018
NSO mobile Pegasus Spyware used in operations in 45 countries

A new report published by Citizen Lab revealed that the NSO Pegasus spyware was used against targets across 45 countries worldwide. A new investigation of the Citizen Lab revealed that the powerful Pegasus mobile spyware was used against targets across 45 countries around the world over the last two years. Pegasus is a surveillance malware developed by the Israeli surveillance NSO Group that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2018
A flaw in Alpine Linux could allow executing arbitrary code

Security researcher Max Justicz has discovered several flaws in the distribution Alpine Linux, including an arbitrary code execution.   Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general purpose Linux distribution that is heavily used in containers, including Docker. Alpine Linux is based on musl libc and busybox, it is a tiny distro and is optimized to manage resources, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2018
Cracked Windows installations are serially infected with EternalBlue exploit code

According to Avira, hundreds of thousands of unpatched Windows systems are serially infected with EternalBlue exploit code. The EternalBlue, is the alleged NSA exploit that made the headlines with DOUBLEPULSAR in the WannaCry attack. The malicious code was leaked online by the Shadow Brokers hacking group that stole it from the arsenal of the NSA-linked Equation Group. ETERNALBLUE targets the Server […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2018
Amazon is investigating allegations that its staff is selling customer data

Amazon confirmed an ongoing investigation of the allegations that some of its personnel sold confidential customer data to third party companies. Amazon confirmed that it is investigating allegations that its staff sold customer data and other confidential information to third-party firms, particularly in China, a practice that violated the company policy. The news was first […]