IoT

InfoSec Week 30, 2018

Researchers from the Palo Alto Networks analyzed new Mirai and Gafgyt IoT/Linux botnet campaigns. The samples used more than 11 exploits for spreading, exploiting D-Link, Dasan GPON routers.

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InfoSec Week 25, 2018

Marcus Brinkmann demonstrated how some configuration options in the GnuPG allow remote attackers to spoof arbitrary signature. He used the embedded “filename” parameter in OpenPGP literal data packets, together with the verbose option set in their gpg.conf file.

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InfoSec Week 17, 2018

A loud sound emitted by a gas-based fire suppression system deployed in the data center has destroyed the hard drives of a Swedish data center, downing NASDAQ operations across Northern Europe.

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InfoSec Week 8, 2018

Fraudsters are impersonating authors and publishing computer generated books so they can launder money via Amazon.

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InfoSec Week 25, 2017

Ukrainian critical infrastructure, including banks, Kyiv’s metro system, the airport and the Chernobyl's radiation monitoring system, was hit by the worldwide malware campaign. The attack is believed to be a new campaign by the group behind Petya ransomware. It takes advantage of the known SMB exploit (EternalBlue), and is spreading fast to the other countries.

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InfoSec Week 18, 2017

Some good souls are selling Ransomware as a service. It has own logo, support, bug tracker, and a clean website.

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InfoSec Week 16, 2017

Crooks are already using recently leaked NSA hack tools to exploit thousands of unpatched Windows machines.

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