Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2017
Terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert – The Manchester Arena explosion killed 22 people including children, Police is investigating the case. The Manchester Arena explosion at the Ariana Grande concert was caused by a terrorist attack that killed 22 people, among the victims, there are also children. “What I can confirm is that there are children among […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2017
A security expert discovered a new worm, dubbed EternalRocks, that exploits the EternalBlue flaw to spread itself like WannaCry ransomware. The security expert Miroslav Stampar, a member of the Croatian Government CERT, has discovered a new worm, dubbed EternalRocks, that exploits the EternalBlue flaw in the SMB protocol to spread itself like the popular WannaCry ransomware. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2017
27 people have been arrested by the Europol for jackpotting attacks on ATM across many countries in Europe. Europol has arrested 27 people accused of being involved in a series of successful black box attacks against ATMs across Europe. Since 2016, these attacks have resulted in more than €45 million in losses.“The efforts of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2017
A new firmware released for NightHawk R7000 Netgear routers includes a remote data collection feature, here’s how to turn off it. In December, a researcher who used the online moniker AceW0rm released a proof-of-concept code exploit working against some NetGear routers because the vendor did not reply to his ethical disclosure occurred in in August. Some versions of Netgear routers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2017
At least 3 different groups have been leveraging the NSA EternalBlue exploit weeks before the WannaCry attacks, here’s the evidence. In the last days, security experts discovered numerous attacks that have been leveraging the same EternalBlue exploit used by the notorious WannaCry ransomware. The Shadow Brokers hacker group revealed the exploit for the SMB vulnerability in April, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2017
Experts from Talos Team discovered changes made to the Terror exploit kit (EK) that allow it to fingerprint victims and target specific vulnerabilities. Recent changes made to the Terror exploit kit (EK) allow it to fingerprint victims and target specific vulnerabilities instead of carpet bombing the victims with many exploits at the same time, Talos […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2017
Google is rolling out a new protection system called Google Play Protect, it is a machine-learning system to protect Android users. Good news for Android users, Google has introduced another security defense system, called Google Play Protect, to protect the devices running its mobile OS. Google already uses several security measures to protect the smartphone, such as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2017
According to Forbes, the dreaded WannaCry ransomware has infected medical devices in at least two hospitals in the United States. WannaCry infected 200,000 computers across 150 countries in a matter of hours last week, it took advantage of a tool named “Eternal Blue”, originally created by the NSA, which exploited a vulnerability present inside the earlier […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html · Experts at RedSocks analyzed the massive WannaCry Ransomware attack · Security Affairs newsletter Round 110 – […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2017
Security experts at threat intelligence firm Record Future have found a clear link between APT3 cyber threat group and China’s Ministry of State Security. The curtain has been pulled back a little on the Chinese Intelligence Agency intelligence gathering structure — and it includes private security contractors and the network vendor supply chain. In 2010, […]
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