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Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2017

Defray Ransomware used in targeted attacks on Education and Healthcare verticals

Researchers at Proofpoint spotted Defray Ransomware, a new ransomware used in a targeted campaign against education and healthcare organizations. Earlier this month, researchers at Proofpoint spotted a targeted ransomware campaign against education and healthcare organizations. The ransomware used in the campaign was dubbed Defray, based on the command and control (C&C) server hostname used for the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2017

More than 1,700 valid Telnet credentials for IoT devices leaked online

Security researchers are warning of the availability online of a list of IoT devices and associated telnet credentials. The list has been available on Pastebin since June, but last week it was also shared via Twitter by the researcher Ankit Anubhav becoming rapidly viral. The original list was posted by someone who has previously published […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2017

Watch out! Adware spreading via Facebook Messenger

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted an ongoing cross-platform malware campaign that leverages Facebook Messenger. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted an ongoing cross-platform malware campaign on Facebook Messenger, spammers are actually infecting users of all platform with adware. Users receive a video link that redirects them to a bogus website set up to lure them to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2017

Cisco IOS vulnerabilities open Rockwell Industrial Switches to attacks

Vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS expose Rockwell Allen-Bradley Stratix and ArmorStratix industrial Ethernet switches to remote attacks. Some models of the Allen-Bradley Stratix and ArmorStratix industrial Ethernet switches are exposed to remote attacks due to security flaws in Cisco’s IOS software. According to the security alert issued by ICS-CERT, an authenticated remote attacker can exploit the flaws to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2017

Mobile Trojan Development Kits allow creating ransomware without the need to write code

Researchers at Symantec have discovered Trojan Development Kits that allow creating Android ransomware without the need to write code. Ransomware continues to represent a serious threat to users and organizations. Unfortunately, it is easy for crooks arranging their own ransomware campaign by using numerous RaaS services offered online. Recently researchers at Symantec discovered a new […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2017

Zerodium payouts for Messaging, Email App Exploits are $500,000

Zerodium payouts include up to $500,000 for RCE and privilege escalation vulnerabilities affecting popular instant messaging and email applications. The zero-day and exploit broker Zerodium, founded by former VUPEN co-founder Chaouki Bekrar, offers $500,000 for a zero-day exploit in secure messaging Messaging (i.e. such as WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Telegram, WeChat, Viber) and Email […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2017

WikiLeaks – CIA used ExpressLane to covertly collect data from liaison intel services

WikiLeaks – CIA used ExpressLane to covertly collect data from liaison intel services, including FBI, DHS and the NSA, to gather data from their systems. WikiLeaks has published another batch of documents from Vault 7 leak, that details how the CIA spies on other intelligence agencies, including FBI, DHS and the NSA, to gather data from their […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2017

Ropemaker attack allows to transform email in malicious ones after it’s received

The Ropemaker attack allows hackers to turn an apparently harmless email into a malicious one after it has already been delivered to the victim’s inbox? What about a technique that could allow an attacker to turn an apparently harmless email into a malicious one after it has already been delivered to the victim’s email inbox? […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2017

Fancy Bears release data on soccer players’ TUE drug use and doping cases

Russia-linked hackers Fancy Bears claimed that around 160 football players failed drug tests in 2015, and 25 2010 World Cup players used doping medicines. A self-styled hacker group that calls itself Fancy Bears has set up the website fancybear.net to leak emails and medical records related to football players who used doping substances under a campaign dubbed OpOlympics. The group […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2017

Fappening 2017 – Private pictures of Miley Cyrus, Stella Maxwell, and others leaked

Fappening 2017 – Private pictures of Miley Cyrus, Stella Maxwell, Kristen Stewart, Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn have been posted online by a celebrity leak website. It has happened again, another wave of Fappening makes the headlines. Once again celebrities have been targeted by crooks, and unfortunately, they continue to ignore security fundamentals. Once again […]

Breaking News

Defray Ransomware used in targeted attacks on Education and Healthcare verticals

More than 1,700 valid Telnet credentials for IoT devices leaked online

Watch out! Adware spreading via Facebook Messenger

Cisco IOS vulnerabilities open Rockwell Industrial Switches to attacks

Mobile Trojan Development Kits allow creating ransomware without the need to write code

Zerodium payouts for Messaging, Email App Exploits are $500,000

WikiLeaks – CIA used ExpressLane to covertly collect data from liaison intel services

Ropemaker attack allows to transform email in malicious ones after it’s received

Fancy Bears release data on soccer players’ TUE drug use and doping cases

Fappening 2017 – Private pictures of Miley Cyrus, Stella Maxwell, and others leaked

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