Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
Hackers compromised computer systems at an Australian Airport and stole sensitive security details and building plans. The man was identified and arrested. Hackers compromised computer systems at the Australian Perth Airport and stole sensitive security details and building plans. The culprit has a name, he is the Vietnamese citizen Le Duc Hoang Hai (31) who accessed the systems in March last year […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
Group-IB spotted the operations of a Russian-speaking cyber gang tracked as MoneyTaker group that stole as much as $10 million from US and Russian banks. Researchers from security firm Group-IB has spotted the operations of a Russian-speaking cyber gang tracked as MoneyTaker that has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
According to the firm Carbon Black, Android ransomware kits are very popular in the dark web, and the median price range for them hits $200. According to the firm Carbon Black, Android ransomware kits are very popular in the dark web, more than 5,000 Android ransomware kit listings have been discovered in 2017. Even if most ransomware kits are still focused […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2017
Security expert discovered severe flaws in most popular programming languages that could expose to hack any secure application built on top of them. Last week, IOActive Senior Security Consultant Fernando Arnaboldi presented at the Black Hat Europe 2017 security conference the results of an interesting research about vulnerabilities in several popular interpreted programming languages. Arnaboldi […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Halloware Ransomware, a new malware offered for sale on the Dark Web for Only $40 · PayPal-owned company TIO Networks data breach affects 1.6 million customers · Security Affairs newsletter Round 139 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2017
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a second draft of a proposed update to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. “On December 5, 2017 NIST published the second draft of the proposed update to the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (a.k.a., draft 2 of Cybersecurity Framework version 1.1).” states the NIST. “This second […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2017
A new IoT botnet leveraging the Linux.ProxyM malware is currently being used by crooks in a campaign attempting to hack websites. Security experts at Doctor Web discovered a new IoT botnet leveraging the Linux.ProxyM malware that is currently being used in a campaign attempting to hack websites. Experts first analyzed the Linux.ProxyM in July, it was used to create a proxy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2017
According to Fortinet, crooks are abusing the Orcus RAT to target Bitcoin investors with their malicious software. Crooks always follow money trying to catch any opportunity, such as the recent spike in the value of Bitcoin. According to the experts from Fortinet, cybercriminals are abusing the Orcus RAT to target Bitcoin investors with their malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2017
Google fixed a bug dubbed Janus that could be exploited by attackers to inject malicious code into Android apps without affecting an app’s signature. Google fixed four dozen vulnerabilities this week, including a bug dubbed Janus that could be exploited by attackers to inject malicious code into Android apps without affecting an app’s signature verification certificates. Millions of Android […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2017
A security researcher discovered that hundreds of notebook models contain a debugging code that could be abused by attackers as a keylogger component. Hundreds of notebook models contain a debugging code that could be abused by attackers as a keylogger component. The code was discovered by a security researcher that goes online with the moniker ZwClose, the list of affected models […]
