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Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2017
Mysterious company is offering up to $250,000 for VM Hacks through a bug bounty

A mysterious company is offering up to $250,000 for virtual machine (VM) hacks. The “secret” bug bounty program was announced by Bugcrowd. A mysterious company makes the headlines for offering up to $250,000 for virtual machine (VM) hacks. The “secret” bug bounty program was announced by the crowdsourced security testing platform Bugcrowd. At the time I was writing the unique […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2017
Wikileaks – CIA CouchPotato remote tool can stealthy collect RTSP/H.264 video streams

WikiLeaks has published another Vault 7 leak, revealing the CIA tool CouchPotato that allows operators to remotely spy on video streams in real-time. “Today, August 10th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the the User Guide for the CoachPotato project of the CIA. CouchPotato is a remote tool for collection against RTSP/H.264 video streams. It provides the ability to collect either the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2017
Experts found a link between the KONNI attacks and DarkHotel campaigns against NK

Experts at Cylance noticed that the decoy document used in KONNI attacks is similar to the one used in recent campaigns of the DarkHotel APT. In May, Cisco Talos team discovered a RAT dubbed KONNI malware that targets organizations linked to North Korea. The malware, dubbed by researchers “KONNI,” was undetected for more than 3 years and was used […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2017
A Self-driving car can be easily hacked by just putting stickers on road signs

A team of experts showed that a simple sticker attached on a sign board can confuse any self-driving car and potentially lead an accident. We have discussed car hacking many times, it is a scaring reality and the numerous hacks devised by security experts demonstrated that it is possible to compromise modern connected car. The latest hack […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2017
SAP Security Patch Day – August 2017 addresses 19 vulnerabilities

SAP just released another set of security patches for its products to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities, most common vulnerability type is XSS. On Tuesday, SAP released a set of security patches to address a total of 19 software vulnerabilities, most of them are rated medium. The most common vulnerability type is cross site scripting (XSS). […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2017
FBI masqueraded the NIT in a video-bait to unmask sextortionist on Tor

The FBI used a NIT involving a specially crafted video file to unmask a sextortionist that via Tor was threatening youngsters. The FBI has used once again the network investigative technique (NIT) for unmasking Tor users, this time the feds used it to arrest a suspected sextortionist. The man is accused of having tricked young […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2017
Mamba ransomware is back and targets organizations in Brazil and Saudi Arabia

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered a new wave of attack leveraging the Mamba ransomware that hit organizations in Brazil and Saudi Arabia. Mamba ransomware is one of the first malware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks. Mamba leverages a disk-level encryption strategy instead of the conventional file-based one. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2017
Cyber criminals demand HBO millions to stop leaking its material

Cyber gang demands HBO CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom to avoid 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being leaked online. Crooks claiming to have hacked television group HBO networks were demanding millions of dollars in ransom payments from the company while threatening to release more material. The alleged hackers published a five-minute video letter to HBO […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2017
Adobe patches 80 vulnerabilities in its products, including Flash Player, Reader, and Acrobat

Adobe released security updates to address more than 80 flaws in products, including Flash Player, Reader, Acrobat, Digital Editions and Experience Manager. Adobe released security updates for its Flash Player, Reader, Acrobat, Digital Editions and Experience Manager products. The company addressed more than 80 vulnerabilities. Adobe has updated Flash Player to version 26.0.0.151 on all platform, this release […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2017
Black Hat 2017 – Hacking the electronic locks to open the doors could be easy

Many times we have seen in movies hackers and spies breaking electronic locks with any kind of electrical equipment. Is it possible? Many times, we have seen in movies hackers and spies breaking electronic locks with any kind of electrical equipment. A pocket device that in a few seconds is able to try all the […]