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Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2018
T-Mobile data breach exposed personal information of up to 2 million customers

T-Mobile today announced It has suffered a security breach that May have exposed personal information of up to 2 million T-mobile customers. According to the telco giant, the incident affected its US servers on August 20, leaked information includes customers’ name, billing zip code, phone number, email address, account number, and account type (prepaid or postpaid). T-Mobile notified the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2018
Expert found a flaw that affects all OpenSSH versions since 1999

Security expert discovered a username enumeration vulnerability in the OpenSSH client that affects all versions of the software that was released since 1999. Security expert Darek Tytko from securitum.pl has discovered a username enumeration vulnerability in the OpenSSH client. The flaw tracked as CVE-2018-15473 affects all versions of the software that was released since 1999. The vulnerability could […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2018
Latest Turla backdoor leverages email PDF attachments as C&C mechanism

Malware researchers from ESET have published a detailed report on the latest variant of the Turla backdoor that leverages email PDF attachments as C&C. Malware researchers from ESET have conducted a new analysis of a backdoor used by the Russia-linked APT Turla in targeted espionage operations. The new analysis revealed a list of high-profile victims that was […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2018
North Korea-linked Ryuk Ransomware used in a targeted campaign

Check Point reported that organizations worldwide have been targeted with the Ryuk ransomware that was developed by North Korea-linked threat actor. Security experts from Check Point have uncovered a ransomware-based campaign aimed at organizations around the world conducted by North Korea-linked threat actor. The campaign appears as targeted and well-planned, crooks targeted several enterprises and encrypted hundreds […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2018
Bitdefender spotted Triout, a new powerful Android Spyware Framework

Security researchers from Bitdefender have spotted a new Android spyware framework dubbed Triout that could be used to create malware with extensive surveillance capabilities. Bitdefender researchers have identified a new spyware framework can be used to spy into Android applications, it is tracked as Triout and first appeared in the wild on May 15. The researcher revealed that the command […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2018
Operation Red Signature – South Korean Firms victims of a supply chain attack

Supply Chain Attack Hits South Korean Firms Security researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a supply chain attack, tracked as Operation Red Signature, against organizations in South Korea. The Operation Red Signature aimed at delivering a remote access Trojan (RAT) used by attackers to steal sensitive information from the victims. Threat actors compromised update server of a remote support […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2018
Expert discovered a Critical Remote Code Execution flaw in Apache Struts (CVE-2018-11776)

Maintainers of the Apache Struts 2 open source development framework has released security updates to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability. Security updates released this week for the Apache Struts 2 open source development framework addressed a critical RCE tracked as CVE-2018-11776. The vulnerability affects Struts versions from 2.3 through 2.3.34, Struts 2.5 through 2.5.16, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2018
A critical remote code execution flaws in Ghostscript could allow to completely take over affected system

The popular Google Project Zero white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy has found a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Ghostscript. Ghostscript is an open source suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems’ PostScriptand Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Ghostscript is a multiplatform software written in C language, it allows to convert PostScript language files (or EPS) to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2018
Adobe security updates address 2 critical code execution flaws in Photoshop

Yesterday Adobe released security updates for two critical code execution vulnerabilities affecting Windows and macOS versions of Photoshop CC. Adobe released updates to address two critical code executions flaws that affect Photoshop for Windows and macOS versions of Photoshop CC. The vulnerabilities, tracked as  CVE-2018-12810 and CVE-2018-12811, are memory corruption issues that could be exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2018
Crooks claim to have stolen 20k customer records from Superdrug cosmetics retailer

Hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 Superdrug customers who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. The British Superdrug is the last victim of a security breach, hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 people who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. Hackers accessed customers’ names, addresses and in some cases […]