Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2020
Nation-state actors are targeting UK universities to steal info on COVID-19 research

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning of cyber attacks against UK universities and scientific institutes involved in COVID-19 research.  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned of targeted attacks against UK universities and scientific facilities that are involved in the COVID-19 research.  The NCSC reported that nation-state actors are carrying out cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2020
Hackers are scanning the internet for vulnerable Salt installs, Ghost blogging platform hacked

Hackers are conducting a mass-scanning the Internet for vulnerable Salt installs that could allow them to hack the organizations, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. Experts warn of hacking campaign that is targeting organization using the Salt platform for the management of their infrastructure, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. The attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2020
LineageOS servers hacked, attackers exploited unpatched Salt issues

On Saturday, at around 8 pm (US Pacific coast), hackers have breached the LineageOS servers by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability. On Saturday, at around 8 pm (US Pacific coast), hackers have breached the LineageOS servers by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability. LineageOS is a free and open-source operating system for smartphones, tablet computers, and set-top boxes, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2020
Security Affairs newsletter Round 262

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Please give me your vote for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERShttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8AkYMfAAwJ4JZzYRm8GfsJCDON8q83C9_wu5u10sNAt_CcA/viewform Coronavirus-themed attacks April 19 – April 25, 2020 Crooks target US universities with malware used by nation-state actors Hackers exploit SQL injection zero-day […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2020
Cyber Threats Observatory Gets Improvements

Today I am so happy to announce a big improvement in the cyber threats observatory (available for here). The main improvement sees the introduction of clustering stereotypes for each tracked malware family in three different behaviors: Domains, Files and Processes. Every malware does specific actions on domains, files and processes realms by meaning that every sample contacts several domain names, spawns specific processes and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2020
Fake Microsoft Teams notifications aim at stealing Office365 logins

Phishing attacks impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams targeted as many as 50,000 Teams users to steal Office365 logins. Abnormal Security experts observed two separate phishing attacks impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams that targeted as many as 50,000 Teams users to steal Office365 logins. The popularity of Microsoft Teams has spiked as a result of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2020
President Trump’s executive order bans foreign electrical equipment from national power grid

US power grid will not include any equipment manufactured by foreign states for security reasons, this states the executive order signed by President Trump. This week President Trump signed an executive order that prohibits operators of US power grids to buy and install electrical equipment that has been manufactured outside the US. “I further find that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2020
Hackers are targeting recently patched WebLogic security vulnerability

Oracle warns of attacks against recently patched WebLogic security bug Oracle warns of attacks in the wild exploiting a recently patched vulnerability in WebLogic servers for which a PoC code is available on GitHub. IT giant Oracle published a security alert to warn organizations running WebLogic servers of ongoing attacks that exploit the CVE-2020-2883 vulnerability. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2020
Over 800K WordPress sites are at risk due to a flaw in Ninja Forms plugin

The development team oh the Ninja Forms WordPress plugin fixed a high severity security flaw that can let attackers take over websites. The developers behind the Ninja Forms WordPress plugin have addressed a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (Stored XSS) attacks. Ninja Forms is a drag and drop form builder plugin […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2020
Chegg discloses the third data breach in the last two years

The American education technology firm Chegg discloses a security breach, it already sent notifications to its employees The US education technology company Chegg discloses a security breach that took place in early April, the firm already sent notifications to its employees. The data breach notification sent on April 28 inform the employee of a security […]