Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2019
ASUS released security patches to fix the issues in the Live Update utility that were exploited by threat actors in Operation ShadowHammer. ASUS announced to have released a fix for the Live Update utility that was exploited by threat actors behind the Operation ShadowHammer to deliver malware to hundreds of users. The Operation ShadowHammer took […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2019
Operation SaboTor – A coordinated operation conducted by law enforcement agencies from Europe, Canada, and the United States targeted vendors and buyers of illegal goods on dark web marketplaces. The international operations, dubbed operation SaboTor, involved 17 countries, notably Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Portugal. “During the course of this operation, international law enforcement agencies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2019
The NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence team uncovered a credential harvesting campaign tracked as LUCKY ELEPHANT targeting mostly South Asian governments. Security experts at NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence team uncovered a credential harvesting campaign, tracked as LUCKY ELEPHANT, targeting mostly South Asian governments. The campaign was discovered in early March 2019, threat actors behind the LUCKY ELEPHANT campaign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2019
Microsoft experts discovered privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in a tool from Huawei. Microsoft researchers discovered privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in a tool from Huawei, both flaws were classified as “high severity.” The experts discovered the flaws because the kernel sensors in Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) detected an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2019
Operation ShadowHammer – ASUS is the last victim of a clamorous supply chain attack that delivered a backdoor to more than one million users, Kaspersky Lab reported. Over 1 million ASUS users may have been impacted by a supply chain attack that leveraged the ASUS Live Update utility to inject a backdoor in ASUS systems. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2019
Cyber security expert and founder of Yoroi has published a new tool that could be used to spot APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) through Malware streams. There are many ways to spot Advanced Persistent Threats, for example during a forensic analysis on “high rate incident” or having sandbox systems on critical infrastructures or again working as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2019
It is a battle with no holds barred between T-Series and PewDiePie, their fans are spreading the PewDiePie ransomware to force users to subscribe to PewDiePie Youtube channel. The story I’m going to tell you is another chapter of the battle between the most followed Youtuber T-Series and PewDiePie. T-Series is an Indian music company, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Experts uncovered a malspam campaign using Boeing 737 Max crashes gnosticplayers offers 26 Million new accounts for sale on the Dark Web Massive attacks bypass MFA on Office 365 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2019
A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Social Warfare installations (v3.5.1 and v3.5.2) is actively exploited to add malicious redirects. The vulnerability in the WordPress plugin has been fixed with the release of the 3.5.3 version of the plugin. Vulnerable versions of the Social Warfare plugin are currently installed on more than 70,000 websites. The plugin […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2019
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Thursday issued a security advisory for multiple vulnerabilities affecting over a dozen heart defibrillators. Multiple vulnerabilities in the heart defibrillators could be exploited by attackers to remotely control the devices, potentially putting the lives of patients at risk. An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a device implantable inside the human […]
