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Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2017
Malwaresearch – A command line tool to find malware on Openmalware.org

Malwaresearch is a command line tool to find malware on Openmalware.org, it was developed to facilitate and speed up the process of finding and downloading malware samples. The tool was developed to facilitate and speed up the process of finding and downloading malware samples via the command line interface. We’ve made use of the API provided by […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2017
Google Project Zero team the worst Windows RCE vulnerability in recent memory

Hackers at the Google Project Zero team have discovered another critical Windows RCE vulnerability, the worst Windows RCE in recent memory. Security experts at Google Project Zero team have discovered another critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows OS, but this time the hackers defined it as the worst Windows RCE in recent memory. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2017
Android’s Vampire Bat Apps are listening to your life through ultrasonic beacons

Researchers at Technische Universitat Braunschweig published a study on 200+ Android mobile apps that are listening to your life through ultrasonic beacons. Researchers at Technische Universitat Braunschweig in Germany recently published a finding that over 200 Android mobile applications are listening to your life through ultrasonic beacons. Like digital electronic vampire bats, these apps are checking […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2017
Operation WilySupply – Software remote update channel of the supply chain exploited as attack vector

Microsoft has recently uncovered an attack dubbed Operation WilySupply that leveraged the update mechanism of an unnamed software editing tool to compromise targets. The attackers mostly targeted organizations in the finance and payment industries. “An unknown attacker was taking advantage of a silent yet effective attack vector: the compromised update mechanism or software supply chain for a third-party […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2017
Fatboy Ransomware as a Service sets the ransom based on the victims’ location

Recently discovered Fatboy ransomware implements a dynamic method of setting the ransom amount based on the geographic location of the victims. Ransomware continues to monopolize the threat landscape, recently security experts have observed numerous evolution of this specific family of malware. A newly discovered ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), dubbed Fatboy, implements a dynamic method of setting the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 109 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html ·      Hacker holds Netflix to ransom over new episodes of Orange Is The New Black ·      Lenovo […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2017
European law enforcement takes down Darknet marketplace

Europol supported the Slovak NAKA crime unit in an operation that resulted in the seizure of the Bloomsfield darknet marketplace. Another success of the European police, last week Europol supported the Slovak NAKA crime unit in the arrest of a Slovak national believed to operate the Bloomsfield darknet marketplace dealing in drugs and arms. “Bloomsfield started its marketplace […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2017
UK Government’s secret programme for mass surveillance on internet and phones leaked

According to a draft document leaked online, UK Government is assigning itself more powers to spy on live communications and use malware for surveillance. While the NSA is announcing it will stop surveillance activities on emails, texts, and other internet communications, the UK government has secretly drawn up more details of its new bulk surveillance powers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2017
Business email compromise (BEC), the 5 billion dollar scam

The Federal Bureau of Investigation report reveals that Business email compromise scams caused losses to businesses for 5 billion dollars over four years. Business email compromise (BEC) continues to be a profitable attack technique for crooks and a serious threat to businesses. The FBI has published data related to this specific criminal practice, and financial […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2017
Cisco fixes a critical flaw in CISCO CVR100W Wireless-N VPN Small Business Routers

Cisco released a firmware update to fix a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in CISCO CVR100W Wireless-N VPN Small Business Routers. Cisco has released a firmware update to fix a critical vulnerability in its CVR100W Wireless-N VPN routers. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-3882, can be exploited by attackers to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and execute arbitrary code […]