Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2019
Experts at Dragos firm reported that Xenotime threat actor behind the 2017 Trisis/Triton malware attack is targeting electric utilities in the US and APAC. Xenotime threat actor is considered responsible for the 2017 Trisis/Triton malware attack that hit oil and gas organizations. In December 2017, the Triton malware  (aka Trisis) was discovered by researchers at FireEye, it was specifically […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2019
Mozilla released security updates for the Thunderbird email client that address vulnerabilities that could allow code execution on impacted systems. Mozilla released security updates for the Thunderbird email client that address vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on impacted systems. Mozilla released Thunderbird version 60.7.1 that addresses three High severity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2019
Hackers are targeting millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions, threat actors leverage the CVE-2019-10149 flaw. Millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions are under attack, threat actors are exploiting the CVE-2019-10149 flaw to take over them. A critical vulnerability affects versions 4.87 to 4.91 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2019
A security expert at SEC Consult discovered that some WAGO industrial managed switches are affected by several serious vulnerabilities. A security researcher at consulting company SEC Consult discovered several vulnerabilities in some models of WAGO industrial switches. The vulnerabilities affect WAGO industrial switches 852-303, 852-1305 and 852-1505 models. The company has already fixed the issues with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2019
Malware infections could be devastating for production environments, a ransomware infection halts production operations for days at airplane parts manufacturer ASCO. ASCO, is of the world’s largest manufacturers of aerospace components The company has offices and production plants in Belgium, Canada, Germany the US, Brasil, and France. ASCO provides components to Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier Aerospace, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2019
Encrypted messaging service Telegram was hit by a major DDoS attack apparently originated from China, likely linked to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong. Telegram was used by protesters in Hong Kong to evade surveillance and coordinate their demonstrations against China that would allow extraditions from the country to the mainland. The country is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2019
Security experts discovered a vulnerability in the popular Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome can be exploited to steal sensitive data from sites visited by users. Security experts at browser security firm Guardio discovered a critical universal cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome. “In May 2019 Guardio’s research team has discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2019
Tavis Ormandy, a white hat hacker Google Project Zero announced to have found a zero-day flaw in the SymCrypt cryptographic library of Microsoft’s operating system. The recently released Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 failed to address a flaw in SymCrypt, a core cryptographic function library currently used by Windows. The flaw could be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2019
The English rock Radiohead released 18-hour trove of private recordings from their 1997 album “OK Computer” in response to the recent hack. The alternative rock band Radiohead released an 18-hour trove of private recordings from their 1997 album “OK Computer” after being hacked by crooks that demanded a ransom of $150,000 for the music. Radiohead uploaded 1.8-gigabyte […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2019
Security researchers disclosed the details of RAMBleed, a new type of side-channel attack on DRAM that can allow stealing sensitive data from a memory. A team of academics from several universities has disclosed the details a new type of side-channel attack on dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), dubbed RAMBleed. The RAMBleed issue, tracked as CVE-2019-0174, could […]
