Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2017
Today I have the pleasure to interview Jonturk 75 one of the hackers that hit high profile targets, including the notorious hacker group OurMine. Jonturk 75 and the hacker group he takes part in have recently made the headlines news with a series of attacks against high profile targets. Following CNN and Reuters hacks they’ve recently defaced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2017
The DolphinAttack technique allows hackers to control Siri, Google Now, Alexa and other voice assistants with commands in ultrasonic frequencies. A team of researchers from the Chinese Zhejiang University has demonstrated how to control several popular speech recognition systems using ultrasound. The attack technique was dubbed ‘DolphinAttack’, it was successfully tested against Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Now, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2017
Equifax, one of the three major US consumer credit reporting agencies is the last victim of a data breach that may have affected upwards to 143 million Americans. According to a statement published by the Equifax, crooks exploited an unnamed U.S. website application vulnerability from mid-May to July to access sensitive data in its systems. “Equifax Inc. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2017
The European biggest hacker collective Chaos Computer Club demonstrated that PC-Wahl software used in Germany for vote counting is insecure. According to a study conducted by the hacker collective Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the software used in Germany for vote counting is insecure. The experts have found several vulnerabilities in the voting software adopted by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2017
Malware researchers at Palo Alto Networks have spotted a 2007 variant of Babar, a strain of malware likely designed by the French Intelligence. In March 2015, researchers detected Babar for the first time, analysis led them into believing it was a product of the French intelligence. According to the experts, Babar malware was used by the General Directorate for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2017
WikiLeaks has published a new batch of documents that details the Project Protego, a secret CIA Missile Control System Project for fighters Another week, another batch of CIA Vault7 leaks was published by Wikileaks. This time the documents provide details about the Project Protego, a CIA Secret Missile Control System. WikiLeaks published four secret documents from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2017
While the first Dragonfly campaigns appear to have been a more reconnaissance phase, the Dragonfly 2.0 campaign seems to have destructive purposes. Symantec has spotted a new wave of cyber attacks against firms in the energy sector powered by the notorious Dragonfly group. The Dragonfly group, also known as Energetic Bear, has been active since at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2017
Boffins have discovered a series of code execution and denial of service flaws in the bootloaders of popular mobile platforms using custom tool BootStomp. A group of nine researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara researchers has discovered a number of code execution and denial of service flaw in the bootloaders of Android chipsets from six vendors. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2017
The dreaded hacking group ShadowBrokers posted a new message, promising to deliver two data dumps a month as part its monthly dumps. The notorious group ShadowBrokers is back with announcing new interesting changes to their Dump Service. The hackers published a new message on the Steemit platform announcing new changed to their service. “Missing theshadowbrokers? If someone […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2017
Experts reported that the AWS S3 storage containing subscriber data was left open by freelancers who handled web applications for the Time Warner Cable. A few days ago, researchers discovered of thousands of resumes of US Military and intel contractors left unsecured on an Amazon server, now roughly four million Time Warner Cable customers in the US were […]
