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Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 68 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all let 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 THANK YOU! Boffins spotted over 100 snooping Tor HSDir nodes spying on Dark Web sites A Chinese gang […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2016
Hacker breached an Amazon server containing 80,000 login credentials

The hacker behind the Twitter account 0x2Taylor is claiming to have breached one of the Amazon servers containing 80,000 login credentials of Kindle users. The hacker 0x2Taylor is claiming to have breached an Amazon server containing login credentials of Kindle users. As a proof the hack, the hacker leaked online more than 80,000 credentials belonging to Amazon […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2016
NetTraveler APT still targets European and Russian interests

Security experts from ProofPoint have spotted a new campaign operated by the APT Group NetTraveler that is targeting Russian and European organizations. NetTraveler is an ATP group first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, when researchers discovered an espionage activity against over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. The name of the operation derives from the malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2016
Facebook Messenger implements End-to-End Encryption

Facebook Messenger Starts Testing End-to-End Encryption with Secret Conversations, it is already available for a limited number of users. Facebook is planning to use end-to-end encryption for its Messenger app and has begun rolling out the feature. Facebook has called the new feature ‘Secret Conversations’ and will allow Messenger users to exchange messages that no […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2016
Ghost Squad hackers dox United Cyber Caliphate including Mauritania Attacker

Hacktivists from Ghost Squad Hacker group made revealed the identities of hackers affiliated with the ISIS cyber army called United Cyber Caliphate. Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH), a hacktivist group made public the identities of hackers affiliated with the ISIS cyber army called United Cyber Caliphate, including leader Mauritania Attacker. Facebook:https://t.co/VU25BTX4Gc pic.twitter.com/h7g4D1gQjd — s1ege (@s1ege_) 7 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2016
PoS systems infected in 1 in 20 Wendy’s stores, credit card exposed

The hack suffered by Wendy’s fast-food chain was bigger than thought, payment card data exposed in more than 1000 stores. The hack suffered by Wendy’s fast-food chain was bigger than thought and exposed sensitive information, including credit card data. Roughly one on three Wendy’s burger was hacked, a malware has infected PoS systems. Just after the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2016
Flaws in BMW ConnectedDrive Infotainment System allow remote hack

A research discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities residing in the official BMW web domain and ConnectedDrive portal that allow remote hack. Once again IoT devices are affected by a serious flaw that could be exploited by hackers to compromise them, this time we speak of Car Hacking. Almost any modern connected vehicle uses a drive-by-wire system that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2016
A flaw in the D-LINK WI-FI camera affects more than 120 products

A vulnerability in the firmware running on many D-Link products allows attackers to take over cameras and other 120 products. A month ago, the Senrio research team discovered and exploited a remote code execution vulnerability in the latest firmware of the D-Link DCS-930L Network Cloud Camera. The vulnerability allows code injection which lets the attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2016
The EU passed the NIS directive, its first ever cyber security rules

The EU has passed the new NIS directive that establishes minimum requirements for cyber-security on critical infrastructure operators. The European Parliament has passed the new network and information security (NIS) directive that establishes minimum requirements for cyber-security on critical infrastructure operators. The NIS directive has a significant impact on all the businesses that supply essential […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2016
Watch out the Satana ransomware is comining

A newly emerging strain of malware dubbed Satana, which was first spotted last week, appears to be basing itself on crypto-lockers Petya and Mischa. Experts from Malwarebytes Labs have described the malicious software to be in the stage of “malware-in-development” with expected growth and evolution to occur over the coming weeks as its popularity and use […]