Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2019
SEC Xtractor – Experts released an open-source hardware analysis tool

Security and consulting company SEC Consult announced the release of an open-source hardware analysis tool dubbed SEC Xtractor Security firm SEC Consult announced the release of an open-source hardware analysis tool dubbed SEC Xtractor. The tool was initially designed for internal use, and was then adopted for several research projects over the years. The tool […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 243

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Data of 21 million Mixcloud users available for sale on the dark web Google warned 12K+ users targeted by state-sponsored hackers Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil hacked Clop Ransomware attempts to disable Windows Defender and Malwarebytes Europol […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2019
Vietnam-linked Ocean Lotus hacked BMW and Hyundai networks

Alleged Vietnamese Ocean Lotus (APT32) hackers breached the networks of the car manufacturers BMW and Hyundai to steal automotive trade secrets. According to German media, hackers suspected to be members of the Vietnam-linked APT Ocean Lotus (APT32) group breached the networks of the car manufacturers BMW and Hyundai. The intrusion aimed at stealing automotive trade […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2019
Russia-linked Gamaredon group targets Ukraine officials

Russia-linked Gamaredon cyberespionage group has been targeting Ukrainian targets, including diplomats, government and military officials. Russia linked APT group tracked as Gamaredon has been targeting several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement. The Gamaredon attacks against Ukraine don’t seem to have stopped. In June malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi spotted a new suspicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2019
VMware addresses ESXi issue disclosed at the Tianfu Cup hacking competition

VMware has addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in ESXi that was disclosed recently at the Tianfu Cup hacking competition. This week VMware has released security updates that fix a critical remote code execution vulnerability in ESXi that was recently disclosed by white hat hackers at the Tianfu Cup hacking competition in China. The Tianfu […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2019
CVE-2019-14899 flaw allows hijacking VPN connections on Linux, Unix systems

Researchers discovered a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-14899 that can be exploited to hijack active TCP connections in a VPN tunnel Researchers from the University of New Mexico have discovered a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-14899, that can be exploited by an attacker to determine if a user is connected to a VPN and hijack active TCP […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2019
OpenBSD addresses authentication bypass, privilege escalation issues

Experts from Qualys Research Labs discovered four high-severity security flaws in OpenBSD, one of which is a type authentication bypass issue. Researchers from Qualys Research Labs discovered four high-severity security vulnerabilities in OpenBSD, a type authentication bypass issue and three privilege escalation bugs. The three issued could be exploited by local users or malware to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2019
China used the Great Cannon DDoS Tool against forum used by Hong Kong protestors

China is accused to have used the “Great Cannon” DDoS tool to launch attacks against LIHKG, a forum used by Hong Kong residents to organize protests. The Great Cannon Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tool was used again by the Chinese government, this time it was used to target the LIHKG forum used by Hong Kong protesters to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2019
Iran-Linked APT groups target energy, industrial sectors with ZeroCleare Wiper

Experts spotted a piece of malware dubbed ZeroCleare that has been used in highly targeted attacks aimed at energy and industrial organizations in the Middle East. Security experts at IBM X-Force found a piece of malware dubbed ZeroCleare (the name ZeroCleare comes from the path in the binary file) that has been used in highly targeted […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2019
Two malicious Python libraries were stealing SSH and GPG keys

The Python security team removed two trojanized Python libraries from PyPI (Python Package Index) that were stealing SSH and GPG keys from the projects of infected developers. The Python security team removed two tainted Python libraries from PyPI (Python Package Index) that were found stealing SSH and GPG keys from the projects of infected developers. […]