Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2019
The NSA released the Ghidra, a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that could be used to find vulnerabilities and security holes in applications. In January 2019, the National Security Agency (NSA) announced the release at the RSA Conference of the free reverse engineering framework GHIDRA. GHIDRA is a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that runs on major […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2019
Over the last few days, a new ransomware campaign infected several users around the world as part of the #OpJerusalem campaign. SI-LAB analyzed this malware and noticed that it does not use sophisticated techniques. Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2019
The Iran-linked Chafer APT group used a new Python-based backdoor in recent attacks aimed at a Turkish government entity. The Iran-linked Chafer APT group used a new Python-based backdoor in attacks carried out in November 2018 that targeted a Turkish government entity. The Chafer APT group has distributed data stealer malware since at least mid-2014, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2019
Poorly protected Docker hosts exposed online continue to be a privileged target of crooks that abuse their computational resources in cryptojacking campaigns. Security experts have recently discovered hundreds of exposed Docker hosts that have been compromised by hackers exploiting the CVE-2019-5736 runc vulnerability in February. The flaw was discovered by the security researchers Adam Iwaniuk […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2019
We’re honored to bring you our 7th Annual edition of Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), exclusively in print at the RSA Conference (RSAC) 2019. Cyber Defense eMagazine – Annual RSA Conference 2019 Edition. Sponsored by: Regent University’s Institute for Cybersecurity Setting the Standard in Cyber Training & Education and by the RSA Conference 2019 Team! RSA […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2019
Cybersecurity expert at Google Project Zero has publicly disclosed details and proof-of-concept exploit for a high-severity security vulnerability in macOS operating system. Google Project Zero white hat hacker Jann Horn disclosed the flaw according to the 90-days disclosure policy of the company because Apple failed to address the issue within 90 days of being notified. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2019
Privacy advocates and cyber security experts raised concerns on the choice of German police to store bodycam footage, which may be used as evidence, on Amazon servers. The choice of the German police of storing bodycam footage on Amazon cloud storage has raised privacy and security concerns. The news was first reported by the Neue […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2019
Security researchers at McAfee have linked the Op. Sharpshooter with the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group after analyzing code from a command and control (C2) server. Security experts at McAfee analyzed the code of a C2 server involved in the cyber espionage campaign tracked as Op. Sharpshooter and linked it with the North Korea-linked APT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2019
Security experts at Morphisec observed a wave of attacks against point-of-sale (PoS) thin clients using card data scraping malware and the Cobalt Strike beacon. Over the past 8-10 weeks, security experts at Morphisec observed multiple sophisticated attacks targeting PoS thin clients worldwide. Most of the indicators collected by the experts point to the FIN6 hacking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2019
The Wireshark Foundation released Wireshark 3.0.0, the latest release of the popular open-source packet analyzer. The Wireshark Foundation announced the release of Wireshark 3.0.0, the latest release of the popular open-source packet analyzer. The new version addresses several bugs and introduces tens of new features, it also improved existing features. The most important changes is […]
