Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2020
Hoaxcalls Botnet expands the target list and adds new DDoS capabilities

The Hoaxcalls IoT botnet expanded the list of targeted devices and has added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. DDoS protection services provider Radware warns the Hoaxcalls Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has expanded the list of targeted devices, the experts also noticed that the operators implemented new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2020
South Korean and US payment card details worth nearly $2M up for sale in the underground

Group-IB experts discovere a dump containing details for nearly 400,000 payment card records uploaded to a popular darknet cardshop on April 9. Singapore, 24/04/2020 – Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has detected a dump containing details for nearly 400,000 payment card records uploaded to a popular darknet cardshop on April 9. The database was comprised almost entirely of the payment records related to banks […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2020
NSA and ASD issue a report warning of web shells deployments

A joint report released by the U.S. NSA and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) warns of attackers increasingly exploiting vulnerable web servers to deploy web shells. A joint report published by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) is warning of bad actors increasingly exploiting vulnerable web servers to deploy […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2020
Expert identifies new Nazar APT group referenced in 2017 Shadow Brokers leak

A security expert uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in 2017. Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, a former Kaspersky and Google researcher, uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2020
Vietnam-linked APT32 group launches COVID-19-themed attacks against China

The Vietnam-linked cyberespionage group tracked as APT32 carried out hacking campaigns against Chinese entities to collect intelligence on the COVID-19 crisis. Vietnam-linked APT group APT32, also known as OceanLotus and APT-C-00, carried out cyber espionage campaigns against Chinese entities to gather intelligence on the COVID-19 crisis. The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2020
Microsoft issued Out-of-Band advisory to address Autodesk FBX flaws

Microsoft released an out-of-band advisory to address security vulnerabilities affecting Autodesk FBX vulnerabilities in Office, Office 365, and Paint 3D.  Researchers from Autodesk discovered multiple vulnerabilities that affect the Autodesk FBX software development kit (SDK), the issues could lead to code execution and trigger denial of service conditions.  Microsoft confirmed that the issues in the Autodesk […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2020
State-sponsored hackers are using COVID-19 lures, Google warns

Google warns that nation-backed hackers are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to organizations involved in the fight against the pandemic. Google is warning that nation-state actors are exploiting the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic to target health care organizations and entities involved in the fight against the pandemic. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared its latest findings related […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2020
Uptick in RPA Software Adoption Reveals Need for Anti-Hacking Training

With smart-working many companies turn to tools like robotic process automation (RPA software) to help make adjustments on the business processes … is it secure? In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, many companies have adjusted how they do business. As they shift to remote work and establish new policies, some companies find these changes to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2020
Hacking Apple iPhones and iPads by sending emails to the victims

Two zero-day flaws in the default mailing app pre-installed on iPhones and iPads allow attackers to hack the devices just by sending emails. Experts at cybersecurity firm ZecOps have discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhone and iPad devices that have been exploited in a series of attacks that targeted iOS high-profile users since at least January 2018. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2020
COVID-19 – Neo-Nazis spread a list of credentials for Gates Foundation, NIH, and WHO employees

Nearly 25,000 email credentials allegedly from NIH, WHO, Gates Foundation and other organizations involved in the containment of COVID-19 pandemic are dumped online While the principal organizations engaged in the fight against COVID-19 are the targets of conspiracy theories, a data dump containing email credentials from the Gates Foundation, World Health Organization (WHO), Center for […]