Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2017
A bug in the software used by Facebook moderators to review inappropriate content resulted in the disclosure of identities of moderators to suspected terrorists. According to the Guardian, the social network giant Facebook put the safety of its content moderators at risk after inadvertently exposing their personal details to suspected terrorist users on the social network. A […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. ·     Critical kernel command line injection flaw found in Motorola handsets MOTO G4, G5 ·     Police seized two Tor relays investigating WannaCry attack, others disappeared in the same period ·     US Defense is working on new multifactor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2017
BC Arabic and the Danish newspaper Dagbladet accuse British BAE Systems of selling mass surveillance software called Evident across the Middle East. The British company BAE Systems has been selling mass surveillance software called Evident across the Middle East, the findings are the result of a year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and the Danish newspaper […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2017
Researchers uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign involving the Kasperagent spyware delivered with Palestine-Themed decoy files. In March, experts at security firm Qihoo 360 have spotted a cyber espionage campaign conducted by a threat actor tracked as APT-C-23 and Two-Tailed Scorpion. A few weeks later, in April, researchers at Palo Alto Networks and ClearSky also shared the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2017
An official statement issued by the Buckle Inc. retail confirmed that a point-of-sale malware was discovered on cash registers at its stores. A few hours ago, the popular investigator and cyber security expert Brian Krebs contacted the Buckle Inc. company after sources in the financial sector reported him about a possible card breach at the retailer. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2017
The Dutch developer Luke Paris has created a PHP rootkit that hides in PHP server modules, he also explained why it is more dangerous of classic rootkits. The Dutch developer Luke Paris has created a rootkit that hides in PHP server modules that could be used by attackers to take over web servers. While classic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2017
The British hacker Sean Caffrey, 25, from Sutton Coldfield pleaded guilty to stealing satellite data from US Department of Defense (DoD). The British hacker Sean Caffrey, 25, from Sutton Coldfield pleaded guilty to stealing user accounts from a U.S. military communications system. According to the NCA, the man admitted in the Birmingham Crown Court to stealing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
The Nmap project announced the release of Nmap 7.50, the first big release since last December that has hundreds of improvements. Nmap 7.50 is the new release of the popular the Network Mapper, the previous release dates back December 2016 and the new one brings hundreds of improvements. Nmap 7.50 includes the Npcap packet capturing driver […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
The number of fileless malware continues to increase, recently security researchers spotted a new Fileless Ransomware dubbed Sorebrect. Sorebrect is able to inject malicious code into a legitimate system process (svchost.exe) on a targeted system and it terminates its binary to evade detection. It also make hard forensics analysis by deleting the affected systemâs event logs using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
Kaspersky Lab had discovered a new malware dubbed dvmap for Android was found and removed from the official Google Play store A New malware dubbed dvmap for Android was found and removed from the official Google Play store Kaspersky Lab had discovered the new malware that is capable of obtaining root access on Android devices […]
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