Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2017
Researchers at Symantec have discovered Trojan Development Kits that allow creating Android ransomware without the need to write code. Ransomware continues to represent a serious threat to users and organizations. Unfortunately, it is easy for crooks arranging their own ransomware campaign by using numerous RaaS services offered online. Recently researchers at Symantec discovered a new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2017
Zerodium payouts include up to $500,000 for RCE and privilege escalation vulnerabilities affecting popular instant messaging and email applications. The zero-day and exploit broker Zerodium, founded by former VUPEN co-founder Chaouki Bekrar, offers $500,000 for a zero-day exploit in secure messaging Messaging (i.e. such as WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Telegram, WeChat, Viber) and Email […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2017
WikiLeaks – CIA used ExpressLane to covertly collect data from liaison intel services, including FBI, DHS and the NSA, to gather data from their systems. WikiLeaks has published another batch of documents from Vault 7 leak, that details how the CIA spies on other intelligence agencies, including FBI, DHS and the NSA, to gather data from their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2017
The Ropemaker attack allows hackers to turn an apparently harmless email into a malicious one after it has already been delivered to the victim’s inbox? What about a technique that could allow an attacker to turn an apparently harmless email into a malicious one after it has already been delivered to the victim’s email inbox? […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2017
Russia-linked hackers Fancy Bears claimed that around 160 football players failed drug tests in 2015, and 25 2010 World Cup players used doping medicines. A self-styled hacker group that calls itself Fancy Bears has set up the website fancybear.net to leak emails and medical records related to football players who used doping substances under a campaign dubbed OpOlympics. The group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2017
Fappening 2017 – Private pictures of Miley Cyrus, Stella Maxwell, Kristen Stewart, Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn have been posted online by a celebrity leak website. It has happened again, another wave of Fappening makes the headlines. Once again celebrities have been targeted by crooks, and unfortunately, they continue to ignore security fundamentals. Once again […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2017
According to a new report published by FireEye, crooks have been using the Neptune exploit kit to deliver cryptocurrency miners via malvertising campaigns. According to experts at FireEye, crooks are exploiting the Neptune exploit kit (aka Terror EK, Eris, and Blaze) to delivery cryptocurrency miners via malvertising campaigns. The Neptune exploit kit was first spotted in January and was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2017
On Monday, the USS John S McCain collided a Liberian-flagged tanker near Singapore, some experts speculate the incident was caused by a cyber attack. On Monday, the USS John S McCain collided a Liberian-flagged tanker near Singapore. The incident had serious consequences on the US operation, the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson ordered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2017
Security researchers discovered that hotel booking service Groupize allegedly exposed sensitive data contained in unsecured AWS storage bucket Security experts continue to discover unsecured AWS storage bucket leaking sensitive data. Last discovery in order of time is an AWS storage related to the hotel booking service Groupize, it was discovered by Kromtech Security Center researchers and confirmed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2017
A new fileless miner dubbed CoinMiner appeared in the wild, it uses NSA EternalBlue exploit and WMI tool to spread. A new strain of Cryptocurrency Miner dubbed CoinMiner appeared in the wild and according to the experts it is hard to detect and infects Windows PCs via EternalBlue NSA exploit. CoinMiner is a fileless malware that leverages the WMI […]
