Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2018
Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates Security experts from security firm SEC Consult have identified over 100 companies that buy and re-brand video surveillance equipment (surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), and network video recorders (NVRs)) manufactured by the Chinese […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2018
Experts from Tenable Research have devised a new attack technique to fully compromise MikroTik Routers. MikroTik routers continue to be under attack, and the situation is getting worse because of the availability of a new PoC code. The new attack technique discovered by experts at Tenable Research could be exploited by remote attackers to execute […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2018
Experts at FortiGuard Labs team discovered three vulnerabilities in eight Sony Bravia smart TVs, one of them rated as critical. Patch management is a crucial aspect for IoT devices, smart objects are surrounding us and represent a privileged target for hackers. Experts at FortiGuard Labs team discovered three vulnerabilities (a stack buffer overflow, a directory traversal, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2018
The latest samples of the HNS bot were designed to target Android devices having the wireless debugging feature ADB enabled. The Hide and Seek (HNS) IoT botnet was first spotted early this year, since its discovery the authors continuously evolved its code. The IoT botnet appeared in the threat landscape in January, when it was first discovered on January 10th […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
Experts at the CSE Cybsec Z-Lab have found a Gafgyt variant implementing the VanillaUPX technique recently presented in a cybersecurity conference A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet is spreading in the last hours and experts of the CSE Cybsec Z-Lab have found it with the support of the Italian cyber security experts @Odisseus and GranetMan. The new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2018
One year after the discovery of the BlueBorne Bluetooth vulnerabilities more than 2 billion devices are still vulnerable to attacks. In September 2017, experts with Armis Labs devised a new attack technique, dubbed BlueBorne, aimed at mobile, desktop and IoT devices that use Bluetooth. The BlueBorne attack exposes devices to a new remote attack, even without […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2018
Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. The exploit code for the CVE-2018-14847 vulnerabilities is becoming a commodity in the hacking underground, just after its disclosure crooks started using it to compromise MikroTik routers. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment. Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2018
Security experts with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks have discovered new variants of the Mirai and Gafgyt IoT malware targeting enterprises. Both botnets appear very interesting for two main reasons: The new Mirai variant targets the same Apache Struts vulnerability exploited in the 2017 Equifax data breach. The vulnerability affects the Jakarta Multipart parser upload […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2018
Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center discovered that thousands of 3D printers are exposed online without proper defense. The news is worrisome, thousands of 3D printers are exposed online to remote cyber attacks. According to the experts at SANS Internet Storm Center that scanned the internet for vulnerable 3D printers, a Shodan query has found […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2018
A new cross-platform Mirai variant appeared in the threat landscape, this one has been created using an open-source project. Security experts from Symantec have spotted a new cross-platform Mirai variant that has been created with an open-source project. Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive […]
