Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2020
Hackers are targeting CVE-2020-3118 flaw in Cisco devices

Cisco warns of attacks attempting to exploit the CVE-2020-3118 vulnerability that affects multiple carrier-grade routers running Cisco IOS XR Software. Cisco is warning of attacks targeting the CVE-2020-3118 high severity vulnerability that affects multiple carrier-grade routers running the Cisco IOS XR Software. The flaw resides in the Cisco Discovery Protocol implementation for Cisco IOS XR […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2020
NSA details top 25 flaws exploited by China-linked hackers

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has shared the list of top 25 vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups in attacks in the wild. The US National Security Agency (NSA) has published a report that includes details of the top 25 vulnerabilities that are currently being exploited by China-linked APT groups in attacks in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2020
Nefilim ransomware gang published Luxottica data on its leak site

The Nefilim ransomware operators have posted a long list of files that appear to belong to Italian eyewear and eyecare giant Luxottica. Luxottica Group S.p.A. is an Italian eyewear conglomerate and the world’s largest company in the eyewear industry. As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2020
U.S. Charges Russia GRU Intelligence Officers for notorious attacks, including NotPetya

The U.S. DoJ announced charges against six Russian intelligence officers for their role in several major cyberattacks carried out over the last years. The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against six members of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency for their alleged role in several major cyberattacks conducted over the past years. The defendants are Yuriy […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2020
The forum of the popular Albion Online game was hacked

Albion Online game maker discloses a data breach, hackers gained access to the company forum database by exploiting a known vulnerability. Albion Online (AO) is a free medieval fantasy MMORPG developed by Sandbox Interactive, a studio based in Berlin, Germany A threat actor has breached the forum of Albion Online and stole usernames and password hashes from its database. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2020
New Emotet campaign uses a new ‘Windows Update’ attachment

After a short pause, a new Emotet malware campaign was spotted by the experts on October 14th, crooks began using a new ‘Windows Update’ attachment. After a short interruption, a new Emotet malware campaign was spotted by the experts in October. Threat actors began using new Windows Update attachments in a spam campaign aimed at […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2020
Fooling self-driving cars by displaying virtual objects

Researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev demonstrated how to fool self-driving cars by displaying virtual objects. A group of researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev demonstrated that it is possible to fool self-driving cars by displaying virtual objects (phantoms). The experts define as phantom a depthless visual object used to deceive […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2020
Hackers claim to have compromised 50,000 home cameras and posted footage online

A hacker collective claims to have hacked over 50,000 home security cameras and published their footage online, some of them on adult sites. A group of hackers claims to have compromised over 50,000 home security cameras and published their private footage online. Some footages were published on adult sites, experts reported that crooks are offering […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2020
FIN11 gang started deploying ransomware to monetize its operations

The financially-motivated hacker group FIN11 has started spreading ransomware to monetize its cyber criminal activities. The financially-motivated hacker group FIN11 has switched tactics starting using ransomware as the main monetization method. The group carried out multiple high-volume operations targeting companies across the world, most of them in North America and Europe. In recent attacks, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2020
Iran-linked Silent Librarian APT targets universities again

Iran-linked cyberespionage group Silent Librarian has launched a new phishing campaign aimed at universities around the world. Iran-linked APT group Silent Librarian has launched another phishing campaign targeting universities around the world. The Silent Librarian, also tracked as Cobalt Dickens and TA407, targeted tens of universities in four continents in the last couple of years. In […]