Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2017
One of the most popular Keyboards in the gaming industry, 104-key Mantistek GK2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard send data back to China. A wrong keyboard could represent an entry point for any organization. One of the most popular Keyboards in the gaming industry, 104-key Mantistek GK2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard seems to include a built-in Keylogger. A number […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2017
According to the incident response firm Volexity, Vietnamese APT32 group is today one of the most advanced APTs in the threat landscape According to the incident response firm Volexity, the cyber espionage campaigns associated with a group operating out of Vietnam and tracked as tracked as OceanLotus and APT32 have become increasingly sophisticated. Researchers at Volexity has been tracking the threat actor since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2017
Over the weekend, two German Twitter users successfully bypassed the existing character limit by exploiting a Twitter bug and sending a 30,396-character tweet. Two German Twitter users, Timrasett and HackneyYT, were able to bypass the 280-character limit by posting a 30,000-character Tweet. Unfortunately, the side effect was that the long tweet caused problems, with some users complaining of crashes. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2017
A group of researchers has conducted a rigorous comprehensive characterization of this DDoS attacks and of countermeasures to mitigate the associated risks. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks have been around about as long as computers have been network connected. A website’s purpose is to accept connections from the Internet and return information. A bad actor can take […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2017
Cisco fixed a vulnerability in IOE XE software that was introduced due to changes to its implementation of the BGP over an Ethernet VPN. Cisco patches a DoS vulnerability in IOE XE software that was introduced due to changes to its implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) over an Ethernet VPN. The Cisco IOS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2017
Most of the Paradise Papers came from offshore legal firm Appleby, which confirms the leak came from a hack on its network and no insiders were involved. The Paradise Papers is a collection of more than 13.4 million financial documents leaked online that has shed light on how major figures in the world of business, politics, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2017
A group of researchers demonstrated that malware signed with stolen Digital code-signing certificates continues to bypass security software. A recent study conducted by the Cyber Security Research Institute (CSRI) revealed that stolen digital code-signing certificates are available for sale for anyone to purchase on the dark web for up to $1,200. Digital code-signing certificates are a precious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2017
How to discover if your network is vulnerable to KRACK attack? KRACK Detector is a script that can detect attacks against client devices on your network. Last week I published a post warning of many industrial networking devices from various vendors are still vulnerable to the recently disclosed KRACK attack (Key Reinstallation Attack). The Belgian researcher Mathy Vanhoef […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2017
A new batch of WhatsApp screenshots and intimate photos of the WWE celebrity Diva Paige was published on a popular celebrity leak website. In March, hackers leaked online nude photos and videos of WWE Diva Paige (real name is Saraya Jade-Bevis), and now a new batch of x-rated images of the celebrity appeared on the Internet. https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/842877382298099713 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2017
A new strain of ransomware dubbed GIBON ransomware was spotted by the ProofPoint researcher Matthew Mesa that observed it being distributed via malspam. The spam messages use a malicious document as attachment containing macros that once enabled will download and install the ransomware on a victim’s machine. The researcher dubbed the ransomware GIBON because of the presence of the string “GIBON” in two […]
