Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2019
Rockwell Automation released updates for Allen-Bradley Stratix industrial switches that address several DoS flaws introduced by Cisco software. Rockwell Automation released security updates that address several DoS vulnerabilities in its Allen-Bradley Stratix industrial switches introduced by Cisco software. ICS-CERT and Rockwell Automation published three separate advisories to warn of the effects of the vulnerabilities introduced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2019
Security experts at Bad Packets uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting the users of popular online services, including Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal. Experts at Bad Packets uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that has been ongoing for the past three months, attackers are targeting the users of popular online services, including Gmail, Netflix, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2019
Security experts at FireEye observed the financially motivated group FIN6 adding the LockerGoga and Ryuk ransomware to its arsenal. According to cybersecurity experts at FireEye, the FIN6 cybercrime group is diversifying its activities and added LockerGoga and Ryuk ransomware to its arsenal. Previous attacks conducted by the FIN6 group aimed at compromising point-of-sale (PoS) systems, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2019
Currently of 300,000+ Magento stores, the vast majority of the installs is still running vulnerable versions of the popular content management system. The problem with patches is that sometimes they fix something and sometimes they break something. Sounds strange, right? Well, let us explain ourselves. See, PRODSECBUG-2198 is a security patch for Magento that fixes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2019
Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have spotted a malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. Experts at AT&T Alien Labs discovered a new piece of malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. The name ‘Xwo‘ comes from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2019
If you use a Xiaomi smartphone you should be aware that a pre-installed security software could be abused for malicious activities. Bad news for the owners of Xiaomi smartphones, a pre-installed security application could be used as a backdoor by hackers. Security experts at CheckPoint have discovered that a security app, called Guard Provider, that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2019
Malware researcher and founder of Yoroi Marco Ramill described a step-by-step procedure that shows how to dissect an Office dropper. During the past few weeks, I received several emails asking how to dissect Office Payloads. While I was thinking about how to answer to such questions I received a MalSpam with a Microsoft Office document […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2019
Security experts at Rapid7 have discovered that over 2 million Apache HTTP servers are still affected by the CVE-2019-0211 critical privilege escalation flaw. An important privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211) affecting the Apache HTTP server could be exploited by users with the right to write and run scripts to gain root on Unix systems via scoreboard […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2019
NSA released the complete source code for its GHIDRA suite, the version 9.0.2 is available on the Agency’s Github repository. In January 2019, the National Security Agency (NSA) announced the release at the RSA Conference of the free reverse engineering framework GHIDRA. GHIDRA is a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that runs on major OSs (Windows, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2019
Security experts at Trend Micro spotted a new variant of the XLoader Trojan that is targeting Android devices by posing as a security application. Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the XLoader Trojan that is targeting Android devices by posing as a security application, the malware also attempts to infect Apple devices (iPhones and […]
