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Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2017
Danish-speaking users hit by malware spread via Dropbox links

Danish-speaking users were infected by malware spread through Dropbox, but the company quickly adopted the countermeasures to stop the attack. According to the experts from security firm AppRiver, Danish-speaking users were hit by an unusual malware-based attack. The attack hit Denmark, Germany, and several surrounding Scandinavian countries on Wednesday morning. Danish-speaking users were infected by malware spread through […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2017
Check Point experts spotted pre-Installed Android Malware on 38 Android devices

Experts discovered pre-installed malware on 38 high-end smartphone models belonging to popular manufacturing companies such as Samsung, LG, Xiaomi and Asus. In the past, security experts have already reported cases of pre-installed malware on mobile devices. In September 2015, security experts at G-Data security firm discovered new cases of Chinese Android mobile devices infected by […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2017
WikiLeaks is working with software makers on Zero-Days included in the Vault7 dump

WikiLeaks announced is working with software makers on Zero-Days by sharing information on the hacking tools included in the Vault7 dump with them. WikiLeaks announced on Tuesday that it has obtained thousands of files allegedly originating from a high-security network of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Wikileaks dump, called “Vault7,” exposed the hacking […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2017
Ennetcom – Dutch Police confirmed to have decrypted BlackBerry PGP messages in a criminal case

The Dutch police decrypted a number of PGP messages sent by crooks through their BlackBerry mobile devices for the criminal investigation on Ennetcom. PGP is an open source end-to-end encryption standard that can be used to sign emails, files, documents, or disk partitions. On April 2016, the Dutch Police arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2017
CIA replies to WikiLeaks Vault7 Leak, it is operating to protect Americans

WikiLeaks Vault7 – CIA pointed out that its mission is to “aggressively collect” foreign intelligence from overseas entities. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has issued an official statement in response to the Wikileaks Vault7 Data leak. The US intelligence agency denies conducting a large-scale surveillance on its citizens. According to an unnamed U.S. officials quoted […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2017
Middle East Government organizations hit with RanRan Ransomware

Palo Alto Networks discovered a new strain of ransomware, dubbed RanRan ransomware, that has been used in targeted attacks in Middle East. Malware researchers at Palo Alto Networks have spotted a new strain of ransomware, dubbed RanRan, that has been used in targeted attacks against government organizations in the Middle East. “Recently, Unit 42 has observed […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2017
640,000 stolen PlayStation accounts being sold on the Dark Web

The seller that goes online with moniker SunTzu583 is offering 640,000 PlayStation accounts for USD 35.71 (0.0292 BTC), it source is still a mystery. The dark web is the right place where to buy stolen login credentials to major web services, last week the colleagues at HackRead reported the sale of more than 1 million Gmail […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2017
Researchers discovered severe flaws in the Confide which is also used by White House staffers

Confide App, the secure messaging app used by staffers in the White House and on Capitol Hill is not as secure as the company claims. Confide is the secure messaging app used by President Donald Trump’s staffers for their secret communication. The official website of the application defines the encryption implemented by the mobile application […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2017
Do you want your own IoT botnet? 185,000+ Wi-Fi-connected cameras are open to hack

The researcher Pierre Kim revealed that more than 185,000 vulnerable Wi-Fi-connected cameras are exposed to the Internet, ready to be hacked. According to the security advisory published by Pierre Kim via Full Disclosure, more than 185,000 vulnerable Wi-Fi-connected cameras are exposed to the Internet, a gift for crooks and hackers. The devices are affected by the following […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2017
Patch Apache Struts 2 Now! Hackers are exploiting a remote code execution zero-day in the wild

Researchers have spotted a remote code execution zero-day in Apache Struts 2, the flaw has being exploiting by that threat actors in the wild. Security researchers have spotted a remote code execution zero-day, tracked as CVE-2017-5638, in Apache Struts 2, and the bad news is that threat actors in the wild are already exploiting it. According to […]