Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2017
Microsoft released the June 2017 Patch Tuesday to address more than 90 security flaws, including two critical RCE that have been exploited in attacks. Microsoft released June Patch Tuesday updates that address more than 90 vulnerabilities, including two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities that have been exploited in attacks. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8464, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2017
On Tuesday, Adobe released updates for Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Captivate and Digital Editions addressing a total of 20 vulnerabilities. Some vulnerabilities fixed by Adobe are critical remote code execution issue, the last release, version 26.0.0.126, addressed nine flaws in Flash Player. The vulnerabilities were tracked as CVE-2017-3075, CVE-2017-3081, CVE-2017-3083, CVE-2017-3084, CVE-2017-3076, CVE-2017-3077, CVE-2017-3078, CVE-2017-3079, and CVE-2017-3082. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2017
Researcher Luca Bongiorni has detailed the procedure to weaponize a new mouse with WHID Injector to show you how to create malicious HID devices. Hello there! Finally, I had some spare time to Weaponize a new Mouse, in order to show you how easy is possible to create malicious HID devices. Materials Needed: WHID Injector […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2017
Security Experts at Arbor Networks have spotted a new banking trojan, initially called ‘Matrix Banker’, that is targeting Latin America. Malware researchers at Arbor Networks have spotted a new banking trojan, initially called ‘Matrix Banker’, that is targeting Latin America. The malicious code seems to be still under development, most of the victims were located […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2017
Israeli cyber spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmakers and discovered they were developing a laptop bomb to hit commercial air crafts, Israeli government spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmakers to discover they were developing a laptop bomb to blow up a commercial aircraft, the New York Times reported Monday. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2017
Companies operating Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have a special set of challenges to deal with. Which is the state of the art? The equipment was expected to be installed and left alone for a long time. Pressures to reduce operating costs led to this equipment being connected, and the easiest networking equipment to find was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2017
Researchers at antivirus firm ESET have discovered a new strain of malware, dubbed Industroyer, that appears to have been designed to target power grids. The experts published a detailed analysis of the malware, they speculated the malicious code has been involved in the December 2016 attack on an electrical substation in Ukraine. “Win32/Industroyer is a sophisticated piece […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2017
Malware researchers at security firm Fortinet have spotted MacRansom, it is the first Mac ransomware offered as a RaaS Service. Malware researchers at security firm Fortinet have spotted a new strain of ransomware dubbed MacRansom that targets Mac machines. The malware is available with Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model through a hidden service in the TOR network. Experts believe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2017
The Egyptian government blocked a number of websites in Egypt, including the publishing platform Medium, without any official announcement. Egyptians users of the online publishing platform, Medium were not able to access the service from their country. Readers and bloggers using both desktop and mobile app suffered access problems, the reason of the blackout is still unclear […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2017
Security researchers at Trend Micro used Tor honeypots to conduct a six-months study of the attack landscape of the Dark Web, Security experts at Trend Micro have conducted a six-months study of the attack landscape of the Dark Web, researchers operated a honeypot setup simulating several underground services on the Dark Web in order to analyze […]
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