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Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2018

Experts uncovered a watering hole attack on leading Hong Kong Telecom Site exploiting CVE-2018-4878 flaw

Researchers at Morphisec have uncovered a watering hole attack on leading Hong Kong Telecom website exploiting the CVE-2018-4878 flash vulnerability. Security experts at Morphisec have discovered a watering hole attack on leading Hong Kong Telecom website exploiting the CVE-2018-4878 flash vulnerability. In a watering hole attack, hackers infect the websites likely to be visited by their targeted victims, this […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2018

GoScanSSH Malware spread avoiding Government and Military networks

Security experts at Cisco Talos discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed online. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed online. The malicious code was written in Go programming language, uncommon for […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2018

Law enforcement arrested the head of the Carbanak gang that stole 1 billion from banks

The head of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 targeted banks worldwide has been arrested in Spain. The mastermind suspected of stealing about £870m (€1bn) in a bank cyber heist has been arrested in Spain. The man is suspected to be the kingpin of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2018

The Internet Engineering Task Force has finally announced the approval of TLS 1.3

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has finally announced the approval of TLS 1.3, the new version of the Transport Layer Security traffic encryption protocol. It was a long journey, the IETF has been analyzing proposals for TLS 1.3 since April 2014, the final release is the result of the work on 28 drafts. The TLS protocol […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2018

Facebook collected call and SMS data from Android users if not explicitly forbidden

After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook made the headlines again, the company collected users’ Android call and SMS metadata for years. The Cambridge Analytica case it raised the discussion about the power of social networks and the possibility of their abuse for the conditioning of political activities. The non-professionals have discovered how important their digital experience […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2018

Reddit banned the biggest Darknet markets subreddit /R/DarkNetmarkets

Recently Reddit decided to ban the biggest darknet subreddit, /r/darknetmarkets, used by crime communities to discuss producta and services in the most popular darknet markets. Darknet markets have a crucial role in the cybercrime underground, they are excellent places of aggregation for the demand and the offer of illegal products and services. Communities around principal Darknet markets […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2018

The City of San Diego is suing the Experian credit agency for 2013 security breach

According to the lawsuit filed by San Diego city attorney Mara Elliott the Experian credit agency never notified the 2013 security breach to the affected consumers as required under California law. The City of San Diego, California is suing the Experian credit agency for the security breach that the company suffered in 2013. “San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott has filed […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2018

A new massive cryptomining campaign target Linux servers exploiting old flaw

Trend Micro uncovered a new crypto mining campaign targeting Linux servers that exploit the CVE-2013-2618 flaw in Cacti’s Network Weathermap plug-in, which system administrators use to visualize network activity. Security firm Trend Micro uncovered new crypto mining campaign, a cybercriminal gang has made nearly $75,000 by installing a Monero miner on vulnerable Linux servers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2018

Thousands of etcd installs leak 750MB worth of passwords and keys

Thousands of etcd installations are currently leaking 750MB worth of passwords, keys, and sensitive data. Thousands of servers belonging to private businesses and organizations are leaking credentials and potentially sensitive data. It is quite easy for hackers to use the credentials to access the servers and steal sensitive data or use the machines to power […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2018

Security Affairs newsletter Round 155 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · Hackers tried to cause a blast at a Saudi petrochemical plant · Russia-linked […]

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Experts uncovered a watering hole attack on leading Hong Kong Telecom Site exploiting CVE-2018-4878 flaw

GoScanSSH Malware spread avoiding Government and Military networks

Law enforcement arrested the head of the Carbanak gang that stole 1 billion from banks

The Internet Engineering Task Force has finally announced the approval of TLS 1.3

Facebook collected call and SMS data from Android users if not explicitly forbidden

Reddit banned the biggest Darknet markets subreddit /R/DarkNetmarkets

The City of San Diego is suing the Experian credit agency for 2013 security breach

A new massive cryptomining campaign target Linux servers exploiting old flaw

Thousands of etcd installs leak 750MB worth of passwords and keys

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