Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2020
Crooks target Android users working from home due to the Coronavirus outbreak with a Trojanized version of the popular video messaging app Zoom. Security experts from Bitdefender have spotted tainted versions of the Android Zoom video-conferencing application that is targeting users working from home due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Researchers detected re-packaged Zoom mobile applications […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2020
Microsoft is sending notifications to dozens of hospitals about vulnerable VPN devices and gateways exposed online in their network. Microsoft is warning dozens of hospitals of the risks of ransomware attacks due to insecure VPN devices and gateways exposed online. Recently Microsoft has published details about human-operated ransomware attacks that targeted organizations in various industries. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2020
The popular Zoom app is under scrutiny, experts have discovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to steal users’ Windows passwords. Experts warn of a ‘UNC path injection’ flaw that could be exploited by remote attackers to steal login credentials from Windows systems. Security experts and privacy advocates believe that the Zoom is an efficient […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2020
Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar botnet, that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. The botnet is used to launch brute-force attacks against MSSQL databases to take over servers and install Monero […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2020
Researchers found a piece of Raccoon Stealer that abuse of Google Cloud Services and leverages multiple delivery techniques. Racoon malware (aka Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer) is an info-stealer that recently appeared in the threat landscape that is advertised in hacking forums. The malware is cheap compared to similar threats, it is able to steal sensitive data from about […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2020
A critical privilege escalation flaw in the WordPress SEO Plugin – Rank Math plugin can allow registered users to gain administrator privileges. Defiant’s Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress SEO Plugin – Rank Math plugin that could allow attackers to give administrator privileges to any registered user. Rank […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2020
Marriott disclosed a new security breach detected at the end of February 2020 that could impact up to 5.2 million of its guests. Marriott International discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 5.2 million hotel guests, the incident was detected at the end of February 2020. “At the end of February […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2020
Holy Water – An APT group compromised a server hosting Web pages belonging mainly to religious figures and charities to carry out watering hole attacks. On December 4, 2019, Kaspersky experts discovered a watering hole attack, tracked Holy Water, aimed at an Asian religious and ethnic group. The campaign has been active since at least […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2020
Microsoft announced that it will add an alerting feature to Edge to warn users if their credentials saved to autofill have been compromised. Microsoft announced several new features for its Edge browser, including a new alerting service to warn users if the credentials they have saved to autofill have been compromised in a third-party data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2020
The Zeus Sphinx malware is back, operators are now spreading it exploiting the interest in the Coronavirus outbreak. The Zeus Sphinx malware is back, it was observed in a new wave of attacks attempting to exploit the interest in the Coronavirus outbreak. Experts from IBM X-Force uncovered a hacking campaign employing the Zeus Sphinx malware, […]
