Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Experts from Bleeping Computer spotted a new Cryptomix Ransomware variant · Facebooks photo tagging system now looks for users in photos theyre not tagged in · Financially motivated attacks reveal the interests […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2017
China’s largest social media network, WeChat, is set to become an official electronic ID system in the country, an ID pilot program was launched in Guangzhou’s Nansha District. WeChat (‘Weixin’ in China) is China’s largest social media network, according to Tencent Holdings, the platform had 980 million monthly active users as of late September. A […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2017
A new Facebook security feature protects users from identity theft, the tech giant is taking note of every email it has “recently” sent to its users. Facebook has rolled out a new security feature to protect users from identity theft, the tech giant is taking note of every email it has “recently” sent to its users. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2017
A hacker belonging to the Lurk cybercrime gang admits the creation of WannaCry ransomware and DNC hack on request of intelligence agencies. In an interview to Dozhd TV channel, one of the members of the Lurk crime group arrested in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, Konstantin Kozlovsky, told that he was one of the authors of the dreaded WannaCry ransomware and that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2017
Andrew Finch, a 28-year-old man from Wichita, Kansas, was killed last week in a swatting attack by police who were responding to a call reporting a hostage situation at the man’s house. All begun on the evening of December 28, two gamers bet they could complete the Call of Duty game by ‘swatting’ each other, but one of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2017
China continues to strengthen its online censorship, it has shut down or revoked the licenses of 13,000 websites since 2015 for violating the country’s internet rules. State media also reported that service providers have closed nearly 10 million internet accounts for “violating service protocol.” “These moves have a powerful deterrent effect,” Xinhua quoted Wang Shengjun, vice […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2017
The browser app pre-installed on Samsung Android devices is affected by a critical SOP bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2017-17692. The browser app pre-installed on Android devices is affected by a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-17692, that could be exploited by an attacker to steal data from browser tabs if the user visits an attacker-controlled site. The SOP bypass issue in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2017
The exploit code used to trigger the CVE-2017-17215 vulnerability in Huawei routers over the past several weeks is now publicly available. Before Christmas, the Mirai botnet made the headlines once again, a new variant dubbed Satori was responsible for hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Huawei HG532 home routers. The activity of the Satori […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2017
The Italia cyber security expert Marco Ramilli, founder of Yoroi, published an interesting analysis of a quite new InfoStealer Malware delivered by eMail to many International Companies. Attack attribution is always a very hard work. False Flags, Code Reuse and Spaghetti Code makes impossible to assert “This attack belongs to X”. Indeed nowadays makes more sense talking about Attribution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2017
Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into US Capital Police cameras ahead of the inauguration of President Trump. Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into control systems of the surveillance cameras for the Metropolitan Police Department in the US. The two suspects, Mihai Alexandru Isvanca, 25, and Eveline […]
