Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2018
According to malware researchers at Palo alto Networks, the Iran-linked OilRig APT group is now using a new Trojan called OopsIE. The Iran-linked OilRig APT group is now using a new Trojan called OopsIE, experts at Palo Alto Networks observed the new malware being used in recent attacks against an insurance agency and a financial institution in the Middle East. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2018
Security experts from GoSecure, hackers are launching SSH brute-force attacks on poorly secured Linux servers to deploy a backdoor dubbed Chaos backdoor. “This post describes a backdoor that spawns a fully encrypted and integrity checked reverse shell that was found in our SSH honeypot,” states the report published by GoSecure. “We named the backdoor ‘Chaos’, following the name […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2018
Researchers at Fortinet have discovered the OMG botnet, the first Mirai variant that sets up proxy servers on the compromised IoT devices. A new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet appeared in the threat landscape, it was discovered by researchers at Fortinet that referred it as OMG because of strings containing “OOMGA” in the configuration table. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2018
Small Business is a privileged target of attackers, in fact, there is a high risk of having problems with hackers if you are a large company or even a media player. Do you have a small company? If the answer is yes, and you think that no cyber attack will ever affect you, think again. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2018
OpenBSD releases Version 11 code update that addresses the Meltdown vulnerability by implementing the separation between the kernel and the user memory pages. OpenBSD addresses the Meltdown vulnerability with the release of a Version 11 code. The update implements the separation between the kernel and the user memory pages. OpenBSD’s Phillip Guenther provided further details on the implementation. “When […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2018
The Drupal development team addressed many vulnerabilities in both Drupal 8 and 7, including some flaws rated as “critical”. Drupal maintainers have fixed many vulnerabilities in Drupal 7 and 8, including some flaws rated as “critical.” One of the critical security vulnerabilities is related to partial cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention mechanisms that was addressed with Drupal 8.4.5 and 7.57 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2018
Cloud security firm RedLock discovered that hackers have compromised the Tesla cloud computing platform to mine cryptocurrency. Tesla has confirmed that hackers have compromised its cloud computing platform to mine cryptocurrency, after the incident was discovered by cloud security firm RedLock. The hackers have breached the Tesla cloud servers and have installed a crypto currency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2018
The tech giants McAfee and Cisco published to reports that providers further info about the global impact of cybercrime. Which is the cost of cybercrime? It is hard to provide an effective a good estimation of the overall impact of the numerous phenomena that happen every day, including cyber attacks, data breaches, scams and so on. The tech […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2018
White hackers at Google Project Zero have discovered two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in versions of BitTorrent’s web-based uTorrent Web client and uTorrent Classic desktop client. With dozens of millions of active users a day, uTorrent is one of the most popular torrent client, the vulnerabilities could be easily exploited by the researchers to deliver a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2018
Intel released a stable microcode update to address the Spectre vulnerability for its Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Coffee Lake processors in all their various variants. Intel has released microcode to address the CVE-2017-5715 Spectre vulnerability for many of its chips, let’s this time the security updates will not cause further problems. The Spectre attack allows user-mode applications to extract information […]
