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Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2018
Game of Drones – Researchers devised a technique to detect drone surveillance

A group of Israeli researchers at Ben Gurion University have built a proof-of-concept system against surveillance operated a surveillance drone. Drones have created a new threat to people’s privacy. Anyone with a drone equipped with a video camera can potentially violate our privacy by streaming the subject in his/her private space over an encrypted first […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2018
Security issue in Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) allows to gain full remote access to corporate devices

Security researchers from F-Secure have discovered a new issue in Intel’s Advanced Management Technology (AMT) implementation that can be exploited by remote attackers to access most of the corporate laptops. Intel is the middle of a tempest, after the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks, security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in Intel’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2018
A flaw in macOS High Sierra allows to unlock the App Store Preferences without password

Security expert discovered a new vulnerability in macOS High Sierra that could be exploited by users logged as admins to unlock the AppStore Preferences in System Preferences by providing any password. Security expert discovered a new vulnerability in macOS High Sierra that could be exploited by users logged as admins to unlock the AppStore Preferences in System Preferences by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2018
Is the INSCOM (U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command) working on a PSYOPS software?

The INSCOM (U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command) is working on a software that could be used to monitor social media and influence the sentiment on specific topics. We have a long discussed the possible use of social media for both intelligence gathering and PSYOPs operations. In 2013 I wrote an interesting post about Social Media use in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2018
Never too late, Skype supports end-to-end encryption for new Private Conversations feature

It’s official, Microsoft’s Skype is rolling out a new feature called Private Conversations, which uses end-to-end encryption. The latest version of Skype implements end-to-end encryption and introduces the support for the Signal protocol. which is the protocol used by WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Allo, and Signal. Attackers will not able to snoop on Skype Private Conversations will support text, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2018
CSE Malware ZLab – Double Process Hollowing -The stealth process injection of the new Ursnif malware

A new variant of the infamous Ursnif malware spread in the wild and adopts a new advanced evasion technique dubbed Double Process Hollowing. Whereas the malware LockPos, famous for its new incredibly advanced and sophisticated evasion technique, spread and affected many Points of Sale, another variant spread in the wild and adopts a similar but […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2018
A security issue in WhatsApp potentially allows attackers to eavesdrop on encrypted Group chats

An attacker can secretly eavesdrop on your private end-to-end encrypted group chats on WhatsApp, Threema and Signal messaging apps. Even if the messaging services implement end-to-end encryption, an attacker or someone in the company that provides the service can decrypt your messages. A Group of researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) in Germany discovered that anyone who controls […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2018
Italian researcher discovered that Gmail shutdown after sending a Zalgo text

Researchers at security firm We Are Segment have discovered a vulnerability in Gmail, a “distorted” message shuts down the most famous webmail in the world. This Cybersec company We Are Segment, part of the Interlogica group, discovered a severe vulnerability in Gmail. Last month the Italian firm made the headlines due to the discovery of the Tormoil […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2018
New Malware Dubbed LockPos Introduces New Injection Technique To Avoid Detection

Security Researchers from Cyberbit have discovered a new malware injection technique being used by a variant of Flokibot malware named LockPoS. A Point of Sale (PoS) malware is a malicious application that steals credit card data from the memory of computers connected to credit card equipment. Once infected the system, the LockPoS malware tries to gain access […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2018
Electrum patches a critical flaw that exposed Bitcoin Wallets to hack since 2016

The development team behind the popular Electrum Bitcoin wallet app has issued an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability in the company bitcoin wallets. Electrum is a free application that’s used by many cryptocurrency sites to store bitcoin. Administrators can run their own Electrum server and the software supports hardware wallets such as Trezor, Ledger and Keepkey. The […]