Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2019
Retefe Banking Trojan resurfaces in the threat landscape with innovations

Security experts at Proofpoint warn of the resurfacing of the Retefe banking Trojan that implements new techniques to avoid detection. The Retefe banking Trojan resurfaces in that threat landscape and implements new techniques to avoid detection. The new variant resurfaced in April, it uses the stunnel encrypted tunneling mechanism and abuses a legitimate shareware app. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2019
Ukrainian national Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov extradited to US facing hacking charges

International ‘Malvertiser’ Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov extradited from the Netherlands to face hacking charges in New Jersey The Ukrainian national Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov (31) was extradited to the U.S. from the Netherlands and is facing charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and computer fraud. The man is suspected to have carried out malvertising […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2019
A hacker has taken over at least 29 IoT botnets

Hacker “Subby” brute-forces the backends of 29 IoT botnets that were using weak or default credentials. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘Subby’ took over 29 IoT botnets in the past few weeks with brute-force attacks. The hacker ‘Subby’ took over 29 IoT botnets in the past few weeks brute-forcing the back end […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2019
Hackers stole card data from 201 campus online stores in US and Canada, is it the Magecart group?

Magecart group stole payment card details from the e-commerce system used by colleges and universities in Canada and the US. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen Magecart groups at least since 2015. The gangs use to implant skimming script into compromised online stores in order to steal payment card data, but they are quite […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2019
Mysterious attacks wipe Git repositories and ask a ransom to rescue code

Extortion practice hit programmers’ Git repositories, experts observed a new piece of ransomware that wipes them and replaces the code with a ransom note. Hackers are using a new piece of ransomware to target GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories, wiping code and commiting, and leaving a ransom note. The hackers wipe out all commit history […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2019
Expert found hundred of vulnerable Jenkins Plugins

A security researcher discovered vulnerabilities in more than 100 plugins of the Jenkins open source software development automation server. Jenkins is the most popular open source automation server, it is maintained by CloudBees and the Jenkins community. The automation server supports developers build, test and deploy their applications, it has hundreds of thousands of active installations […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2019
Authorities shut down major darknet marketplaces: the Wall Street Market and Valhalla

German police have shut down one of the world’s largest black marketplace in the darkweb, the ‘Wall Street Market,’ and arrested its operators. The German police, with the support of Europol, Dutch police and the FBI, has shut down one of the world’s largest black marketplace in the darkweb, the ‘Wall Street Market,’ and arrested […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2019
Cisco addresses a critical flaw in Nexus 9000 switches

Cisco released security patches to address tens of vulnerabilities in its products, including a critical vulnerability affecting Nexus 9000 switches. Cisco released security patches to address tens of vulnerabilities in its products. Among the flaws fixed by Cisco, there is also a critical vulnerability in Nexus 9000 switches that is tracked as CVE-2019-1804 and that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2019
10KBLAZE exploits could affect 9 out of 10 SAP installs of more than 50k customers

The availability of 10KBLAZE PoC exploits for old SAP configuration issue poses a severe risk of attacks for business applications. The risk of cyber attacks against SAP systems is increased after security researchers released PoC exploits for old SAP configuration flaws. SAP Message Server and SAP Gateway implements an access control list (ACL) mechanism to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2019
Russian national ANTON P. BOGDANOV indicted for $1.5M cyber tax fraud scheme

The US DoJ indicted a Russian national for obtaining over $1.5 million in fraudulent tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service. The US DoJ indicted the Russian national ANTON P. BOGDANOV for obtaining over $1.5 million in fraudulent tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service. Bogdanov was charged in federal court in Brooklyn of wire fraud conspiracy, […]