Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2017
Journalists and activists in Mexico accused the government of spying on them with the powerful surveillance software Pegasus developed by the NSO Group. Journalists and activists in Mexico accused the government of spying on them with a powerful surveillance software. According to the journalists, the authorities used an Israeli spyware to hack their mobile devices. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2017
Stack Clash is a local privilege escalation flaw in Linux, BSD, Solaris and other open source systems that allows an attacker to execute code as root. Linux, BSD, Solaris and other open source systems are vulnerable to a local privilege escalation vulnerability known as Stack Clash that allows an attacker to execute code as root. Stack Clash is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2017
The popular security expert Chris Vickery revealed the DRA firm left 1.1 TB of data unsecured on an Amazon S3, 198 million US voter records exposed. Researcher Chris Vickery has found nearly 200 million voter records in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket maintained by Deep Root Analytics (DRA), it is the largest exposure of its kind […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2017
Pinkslipbot banking Trojan is a banking Trojan that uses a complicated multistage proxy for HTTPS-based control server communication. Security researchers at McAfee Labs have spotted a new strain of the Pinkslipbot banking malware (also known as QakBot/QBot) that leverages UPnP to open ports, allowing incoming connections from anyone on the Internet to communicate with the infected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2017
The Canada Communications Security Establishment (CSE) published a report that reveals that hackers will attempt to hack into 2019 country’s Election. The Canada Communications Security Establishment (CSE) published a report that reveals that cyber criminals and hacktivists had leaked sensitive government documents, and attempted to hack into 2015 country’s Election. The hackers targeted candidates and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2017
Indian authorities are facing with the Rufus malware, a malicious code used to clean out ATMs running outdated Windows XP software across states. Many security firms and law enforcement agencies are warning of malware-based attacks against ATM. Recently 27 people have been arrested by the Europol for jackpotting attacks on ATM across many countries in Europe. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2017
A bug in the software used by Facebook moderators to review inappropriate content resulted in the disclosure of identities of moderators to suspected terrorists. According to the Guardian, the social network giant Facebook put the safety of its content moderators at risk after inadvertently exposing their personal details to suspected terrorist users on the social network. A […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. ·     Critical kernel command line injection flaw found in Motorola handsets MOTO G4, G5 ·     Police seized two Tor relays investigating WannaCry attack, others disappeared in the same period ·     US Defense is working on new multifactor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2017
BC Arabic and the Danish newspaper Dagbladet accuse British BAE Systems of selling mass surveillance software called Evident across the Middle East. The British company BAE Systems has been selling mass surveillance software called Evident across the Middle East, the findings are the result of a year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and the Danish newspaper […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2017
Researchers uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign involving the Kasperagent spyware delivered with Palestine-Themed decoy files. In March, experts at security firm Qihoo 360 have spotted a cyber espionage campaign conducted by a threat actor tracked as APT-C-23 and Two-Tailed Scorpion. A few weeks later, in April, researchers at Palo Alto Networks and ClearSky also shared the […]
