Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs The website of the Hungarian Government temporarily shut by cyberattack CloudFlare considers 94 percent of the Tor traffic as per se malicious Security Affairs newsletter Round 54 – News of the week Hacking connected lightbulbs to breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2016
Researchers and law enforcement in a joint effort shut down the Mumblehard botnet composed of more than 4000 Linux machines. Security experts have shut down a spam botnet, known as Mumblehard, composed of more than 4,00o Linux machines. In May 2015, researchers from ESET revealed the sophisticated Mumblehard spamming malware infected thousands of Linux and FreeBSD servers going […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2016
According to documents obtained by The Intercept, the CIA is looking with a great interest in a new skincare line for DNA extraction on crime scenes. According to documents obtained by The Intercept, the CIA is funding a new skincare line that can allow the agency to collect DNA. “SKINCENTIAL SCIENCES, a company with an innovative line […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2016
According to a report recently issued by the FBI, cyber criminals have pilfered more than $2.3bn from 17,642 victims since 2013 with BEC attacks. According to the FBI, cyber criminals have stolen more than $2.3bn from 17,642 victims since 2013 in BEC attacks. The situation is critical, the number of business email compromise BEC scams continues to increase on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2016
The Open Sourced Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) shut down permanently in response to the lack of assistance from the industry. The Open Sourced Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) shut down permanently, the news was reported in a blog post published by the maintainers of the project. The decision was made in response to the lack of assistance from the industry. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2016
Attackers can exploit the flaws in the ARRIS SURFboard cable modems to remotely knock out the device, more than 135 million device open to attacks. The security expert David Longenecker reported security vulnerabilities affecting the popular broadband cable SURFboard modems produced by the ARRIS (formerly Motorola). The ARRIS SB6141 model is available for sale for around $70 US, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2016
Cyber criminals are exploiting the Flash player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-1019) affecting Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier disclosed by Adobe. Cyber criminals are already exploiting the Flash player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-1019) affecting Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier (CVE-2016-1019) disclosed by Adobe this week. Researchers at security firm Proofpoint confirmed that cyber gangs are exploiting it to distribute a ransomware dubbed Cerber. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2016
The FBI Director James Comey confirmed the Agency had purchased a hacking tool to crack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, but … The FBI has found a way to unlock any Apple iPhone, this is the opinion of the majority of security experts. Apple has expressed its concerns about the technique adopted by the Feds to access data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2016
Anonymous Philippines hacked the COMELEC database, the incident exposed records of more than 55 million voters, it is the biggest gov-related data breach. A few days ago I reported the news on the availability online of a database containing data of more than 50 million Turkish citizens, now IT security community is discussing another clamorous data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2016
A threat actor named TA530 group, has been targeting executives in an attempt to infect their machine with various malware, including ransomware. Ransomware continues to represent one of the greatest threat for the Internet users, the FBI recently issued a confidential urgent “Flash” message to the businesses and organizations about the Samsam Ransomware. Security firms […]
