Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2018
Russian speaking hacker arrested for stealing $8,000 per day leveraging mobile malware

Moscow, May 24, 2018 – law enforcement, with support from Group-IB, has arrested a 32-year-old hacker, accused of stealing funds from Russian banks’ customers using Android mobile malware. At the height of their activity, victims reportedly lost between 1,500 to 8,000 dollars daily and levered cryptocurrency for laundering. Group-IB’s analysis reviewed the tools and techniques […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2018
Bitcoin Gold hit by double-spend attack, exchanges lose over $18 million

An unknown hacker made over $18 Million worth of BTG (Bitcoin Gold) powering “double spend” attacks on the Bitcoin Gold cryptocurrency network. The attacks started on May 18, the attacker used a large number of servers that allowed him to take the control of the majority of the Bitcoin Gold’s network hashrate, an attack technique dubbed “51% […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2018
Xenotime, Threat actors Behind Triton Malware broadens its activities

The threat actor behind the Triton malware (aka Trisis, Xenotime, and HatMan) is now targeting organizations worldwide and safety systems. The attackers are expanding their targets and new variants are able to attacks also other than Schneider Electric’s Triconex systems. The malware was first spotted in December 2017 by researchers at FireEye that discovered that it was specifically designed to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2018
Justice Department announces actions to disrupt the VPNFilter botnet

The Justice Department announced an effort to disrupt the VPNFilter botnet of hundreds of thousands of infected home and office (SOHO) routers and other networked devices under the control of a Russia-linked APT group. Yesterday Talos and other security firm revealed the discovery of a huge botnet tracked as VPNFilter composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2018
Kaspersky discovered a backdoor account and other issues in D-Link DIR-620 Routers

Security experts from Kaspersky have discovered a backdoor account and other three vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-620 Routers. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a backdoor account (CVE-2018-6213) in the firmware of D-Link DIR-620 routers that could be exploited by attackers to access to the device’s web panel and take over devices exposed online. “The latest […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2018
Huge Russia-Linked botnet VPNFilter ready to launch a massive attack on Ukraine

Security firm Talos along with other cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have uncovered a huge botnet dubbed VPNFilter, composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The experts believe the VPNFilter was developed by Russia and the associated malware appears to be very sophisticated, at the time they discovered more than 500,000 compromised devices across […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2018
Turla APT group leverages for the first time the Metasploit framework for the Mosquito campaign

Security experts from ESET observed the Turla APT group leveraging for the first time the Metasploit framework in the Mosquito campaign The Russia-linked Turla APT group continues its cyber espionage campaigns shifting towards more generic tools to remain under the radar. Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2018
Experts warn: it is too easy to steal WiFi access key from TalkTalk ‘s Super Routers

Home Wi-Fi networks in the UK using Super Router provided by TalkTalk ISP are affected by a vulnerability that exposes them to cyber attacks. Security researchers at software house IndigoFuzz have discovered a security flaw in the implementation of the WPS feature of the TalkTalk Super Router that can be exploited to compromise to steal […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2018
Chinese researchers from Tencent discovered exploitable flaws in several BMW models

A team of security researchers from Chinese firm Tencent has discovered 14 security vulnerabilities in several BMW models. Researchers from the Tencent Keen Security Lab have discovered 14 vulnerabilities affecting several BMW models, including BMW i Series, BMW X Series, BMW 3 Series, BMW 5 Series, and BMW 7 Series. The team of experts conducted a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2018
The ZipperDown Vulnerability could affect roughly 10% of iOS Apps

Experts from Chinese jailbreakers Pangu Lab, have recently discovered the ZipperDown flaw that could affect roughly 10% of iOS Apps. ZipperDown, is a recently discovered vulnerability that could affect thousands of iOS apps and maybe also Android users. The ZipperDown flaw was first reported by experts from Chinese jailbreakers Pangu Lab,  that described it as described as a programming error. The experts estimate […]