Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2017
Recent Qatar hack is sparking diplomatic tensions in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties to the country. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain say they want to interrupt any diplomatic relation with Qatar. According to Al Jazeera, the Saudi kingdom made the announcement via its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2017
According to a report published by the London-based think tank Basic, the UK Trident submarines are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. According to a report published by the London-based think tank British American Security Information Council (Basic), the UKÂ Trident submarine fleet is vulnerable to cyber-attacks. According to the report “Hacking UK Trident, A Growing Threat,” a cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2017
Commenting the London Bridge terror attack, Prime Minister says there is âfar too much tolerance of extremismâ in the UK and urges Internet regulation. The London Bridge terror attack is fueling the debate about the Internet regulation, the Prime Minister Theresa May believe the terrorists had ‘safe spaces’ online and this is no more acceptable. Prime […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. ·     British Airways cancels thousands of flights, there is no evidence of cyber-attacks ·     Security Affairs newsletter Round 112 â News of the week ·     Tainted Leaks â Widespead Russias disinformation campaign hit 39 Countries ·     Austrian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2017
Security experts at IBM noticed that hundreds to thousands of Active Directory users were locked out of their companyâs domain by the QakBot Banking malware Malware researchers at IBM noticed that hundreds to thousands of Active Directory users were locked out of their organizationâs domain, the incident is caused by the Qbot banking malware. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2017
Security experts at Rapid7 have discovered a security issue in the SSH configuration for its Nexpose appliances tracked as CVE-2017-5243. Owners of Nexpose appliances have to apply an update to their systems to fix the issue in the default SSH configuration. The devices were shipped with an SSH configuration that allowed obsolete algorithms to be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2017
Security researchers linked Jaff ransomware campaigns to the backend infrastructure used by operators behind a black market. Security researchers at Heimdal Security who are investigating a new strain of Jaff ransomware discovered that the malware is sharing the backend infrastructure with a black market offering for sale stolen card data and account information. The black […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2017
Security Experts are observing a significant increase in the number of malware and hacking tools leveraging the ETERNALBLUE NSA exploit. ETERNALBLUE is the alleged NSA exploit that made the headlines with DOUBLEPULSAR in the WannaCry attack. ETERNALBLUEÂ targets the SMBv1 protocol and it has become widely adopted in the community of malware developers. Investigations on WannaCry […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2017
According to Shodan search, unprotected Hadoop Distributed File System installations expose 5 PB of data. Hadoop servers that are not securely configured expose vast amounts of data, according to an analysis conducted using the Internet search engine Shodan. A study conducted by Shodan revealed that nearly 4,500 servers with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2017
Crowdfunding initiative aims to buy Shadow Brokers leak before threat actors will start using the hacking tools and exploits in the wild. The Shadow Brokers hacker group is going to launch a monthly subscription model for its data dumps, 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions goes for (100 Zcash), approximately $24,450 per month. The hacking tools and exploits that will […]
