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Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2017

South Korean investigators confirmed National Intelligence Service interference in 2012 election

South Korean investigators confirmed that National Intelligence Service attempted to influence 2012 presidential election. South Korean investigators confirmed that National Intelligence Service (NIS) attempted to manipulate voters to help conservative win parliamentary and presidential elections. According to the National Intelligence Service (NIS), the Agency conducted a two-years PSYOPs involving up to 30 teams to manipulate […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2017

Microsoft Attempts To Fix Stuxnet For The Third Time

Microsoft released a new security update on June 17th in an attempt to patch a vulnerability which allowed the Stuxnet Virus to exploit Windows systems. The Stuxnet Virus which attacks Industrial Control Systems was first discovered in 2010 when it infected Iranian Programmable Logic Controllers. Stuxnet compromises controllers by first targeting Windows operating systems and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2017

Cisco fixes DoS, Authentication Bypass issues with its products and OSPF flaw

Cisco addressed 15 flaws in its products, including 2 flaws that could be exploited by attackers to trigger a DoS condition or bypass local authentication. Cisco addressed 15 vulnerabilities affecting a dozen products, including two high severity flaws that could be exploited by attackers to trigger a denial of service condition or bypass local authentication. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2017

Black Hat 2017 – GitPwnd tool could be used by attackers to communicate with compromised devices via Git repositories

Black Hat 2017 – Security experts develop GitPwnd, a tool that could be used by attackers to communicate with compromised devices via Git repositories. Even if the Black Hat conference was ended a few days ago, here we are discussing interesting talks of cyber security experts that participated at the event. Clint Gibler, a security researcher at NCC […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2017

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Crypto weakening: Crypto War 2.0

Sheryl Sandberg on crypto weakening. The new Crypto war being started where government agencies are wanting a reduction in encryption strengths. DISCLAIMER: All views and facts explained in this article are the views of the author and does not in anyway related to the views of organization where the individual is employed. The article is […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2017

UK malware researcher Marcus Hutchins accused of creating Kronos Trojan

The British security researcher Marcus Hutchins was arrested by the FBI on Thursday after being indicted on charges of creating the Kronos banking malware. The news of the Marcus Hutchins‘s arrest made the headlines, the motivation has shocked the IT sector; the British malware experts who stopped the WannaCry ransomware outbreak was arrested in Las […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2017

WannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins was detained in Las Vegas after Def Con conference

Marcus Hutchins, the expert who discovered the “kill switch” that halted the outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware was detained in Las Vegas after Def Con. Marcus Hutchins, also known as MalwareTech, is the 22-year-old security expert who made the headlines after discovering the “kill switch” that halted the outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware. Marcus Hutchins has been arrested […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2017

Wikileaks – CIA Dumbo tool allows agents to disable security cameras

Wikileaks published a new batch of files belonging to the CIA Vault 7 archive that reveals the ‘Dumbo’ tool used by the agents to disable security cameras. Wikileaks published a new batch of files belonging to the CIA Vault 7 archive, the documents detail a tool code named ‘Dumbo‘ that was developed by the intelligence […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2017

New TrickBot banking Trojan variant borrows spreading capabilities from Wannacry

A cyber gang is improving its version of the TrickBot banking Trojan by implementing the self-spreading worm-like capabilities used by WannaCry and NotPetya Cybercriminals most of all are capitalizing the lesson from the recent WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware massive attacks. At least one cyber gang is improving its version of the TrickBot banking Trojan by implementing the self-spreading […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2017

Former Bupa employee offered 1 million customer records for sale on dark web

Former Employee of the Healthcare giant Bupa offered for sale records of 1 Million clients on Dark Web. A former employee of healthcare giant Bupa was selling between 500,000 and 1 million records on the healthcare giant Bupa was selling between 500,000 and 1 million records on the dark web. The former employee whose identity […]

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