Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2018
Ukraine ‘s SBU Security Service reportedly stopped VPNFilter attack at chlorine station, the malware infected the network equipment in the facility that supplies water treatment and sewage plants. According to the Interfax-Ukraine media outlet, the VPNFilter hit the LLC Aulska station in Auly (Dnipropetrovsk region), according to the experts the malware aimed at disrupting operations at the chlorine station. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2018
Hackers have compromised the website of VSDC, (http://www.videosoftdev.com), a popular company that provides free audio and video conversion and editing software. Experts from Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Total Security discovered that attackers hijacked the download links of the popular audio and video editor, VSDC. The experts discovered that hackers hijacked download links on the websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2018
FireEye uncovered a large-scale Chinese phishing and hacking campaign powered by Temp.periscope APT aimed at Cambodia’s elections. Security researchers at FireEye have uncovered a large-scale Chinese phishing and hacking campaign aimed at Cambodia’s elections. The hackers distributed a remote access trojan (RAT) and data exfiltration operation targeting the poll. The experts from FireEye attributed the attacks to an APT group tracked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2018
The access to a system at a major international airport via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) could be paid only $10 on the Dark Web. Experts at McAfee have discovered hackers offering RDP access to compromised machines worldwide while analyzing several black markets. The researchers discovered shops offering between 15 to more than 40,000 RDP connections for sale, the largest […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2018
A team of researchers has discovered new variant of the famous Spectre attack (Spectre 1.1), and Intel has paid a $100,000 bug bounty as part of its bug bounty program. Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new vulnerabilities that are related to the first variant of the Spectre attack (CVE-2017-5753), for this reason, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2018
Researchers at threat intelligence firm Recorded Future have reported that a hacker was trying to sell US Military Reaper drone documents for less than $200. The news is disconcerting, the hackers may have obtained the documents related to the Reaper drone by hacking into at least two computers belonging to U.S. military personnel. “Specifically, an English-speaking hacker claimed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2018
Hackers have poisoned the Arch Linux PDF reader package named “acroread” that was found in a user-provided Arch User Repository (AUR), Hackers have poisoned the Arch Linux PDF reader package, this means that users who have downloaded recently a PDF viewer named “acroread” may have been compromised. ThePDF reader package has been tainted with a malware and Arch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2018
Once USB Restricted Mode is enabled on a device, no data communications occur over the Lightning port, but experts found a way to reset the countdown timer. Recently Apple released the iOS 11.4.1 that introduced a new security feature, dubbed USB Restricted Mode, designed to protect your devices against USB accessories used by forensics experts and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2018
A cyber-espionage group tracked as BlackTech is abusing code-signing certificates stolen from D-Link for the distribution of their malware. Security experts from ESET discovered that an APT group tracked as BlackTech is using code-signing certificates stolen from Taiwanese-based tech firm D-Link and the security company Changing Information Technology Inc. According to the experts, the cyber espionage group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2018
The hosting company Domainfactory has taken down its forums after hackers posted messages claiming to have breached into its infrastructure. While I was writing about the Timehope security breach, another incident is making the headlines, the victim is the German hosting company Domainfactory. The hosting company, that was owned by GoDaddy since 2016, has taken […]
