Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2019
Customers of 7-Eleven Japan lost $500,000 due to a flaw in the mobile app

Cyber criminals have exploited an unproperly implemented password reset process in 7-Eleven to make unwanted charges on 900 customers’ accounts. 7-Eleven Inc. is a Japanese-American international chain of convenience stores, news of the day is that hackers exploited a weakness in the password reset function to make unwanted charges on its customers’ accounts. Crooks targeted approximately 900 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2019
Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware

Croatia government agencies have been targeted by unknown hackers with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. A mysterious group of hackers carried out a series of cyber attacks against Croatian government agencies, infecting employees with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2019
Eurofins, the UK’s largest police forensics lab paid ransom after an attack

Eurofins Scientific, the UK’s biggest provider of forensic services, has paid a ransom to demand to recover its data after a ransomware attack. Eurofins Scientific, the UK’s largest police forensics lab contractor, announced to have paid a ransom to crooks to recover its data after a ransomware had been encrypted them. The company is based […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2019
Cryptomining Campaign involves Golang malware to target Linux servers

Experts at F5 Networks discovered a cryptomining campaign that is delivering a new piece of the Golang malware that targets Linux-based servers. F5 experts uncovered a cryptominer campaign that is delivering a new strain of Golang malware that targets Linux-based servers. The campaign began around June 10 and already infected several thousand machines. The malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2019
Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH)

Researchers at Network Security Research Lab of Qihoo 360 discovered a Lua-based backdoor dubbed Godlua that targets both Linux and Windows systems. The peculiarity of this new piece of malware is the ability to communicate with C2 servers via DNS over HTTPS (DoH). The DoH protocol was a new standard proposed in October 2018 and it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2019
Magento fixed security flaws that allow complete site takeover

Magento addressed flaws that could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to hijack administrative sessions and completely take over online stores. Magento addressed security vulnerabilities that could be chained by an unauthenticated attacker to hijack administrative sessions and completely take over online stores. The attacker would first exploit a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability to inject […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2019
Sodin Ransomware includes exploit for Windows CVE-2018-8453 bug

Kaspersky experts discovered that Sodinokibi, aka Sodin, Ransomware currently also exploits the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability to elevate privileges in Windows The Sodinokibi Ransomware (aka Sodin, REvil) appeared in the threat landscape in April when crooks were delivering it by exploiting a recently patched Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability. Now the threat is evolving, the Sodinokibi ransomware includes fresh […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2019
Old known issue in Firefox allows HTML files to steal other files from victim’s system

Opening an HTML file on Firefox could allow attackers to steal files stored on a victim’s computer due to a weakness in the popular web browser. The security expert Barak Tawily demonstrated that opening an HTML file on Firefox could allow attackers to steal files stored on a victim’s computer due to a 17-year-old known bug in […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2019
Bangladesh Cyber Heist 2.0: Silence APT goes global

Group-IB believes Silence APT, the Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang, is likely to be behind the attack on Dutch Bangla Bank’s ATMs resulting in the theft of $3M, Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has established that Silence APT, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group is likely to be behind the brazen attack on Dutch […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2019
US Cyber Command warns of Iran-linked hackers exploiting CVE-2017-11774 Outlook flaw

US Cyber Command posted on Twitter an alert about cyber attacks exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 vulnerability in Outlook. Yesterday I was using Twitter when I noticed the following alert issued by the account managed by the US Cyber Command: The alert refers to an ongoing activity aimed at infecting government networks by exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 Outlook […]