Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2017
The British hacker Sean Caffrey, 25, from Sutton Coldfield pleaded guilty to stealing satellite data from US Department of Defense (DoD). The British hacker Sean Caffrey, 25, from Sutton Coldfield pleaded guilty to stealing user accounts from a U.S. military communications system. According to the NCA, the man admitted in the Birmingham Crown Court to stealing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
The Nmap project announced the release of Nmap 7.50, the first big release since last December that has hundreds of improvements. Nmap 7.50 is the new release of the popular the Network Mapper, the previous release dates back December 2016 and the new one brings hundreds of improvements. Nmap 7.50 includes the Npcap packet capturing driver […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
The number of fileless malware continues to increase, recently security researchers spotted a new Fileless Ransomware dubbed Sorebrect. Sorebrect is able to inject malicious code into a legitimate system process (svchost.exe) on a targeted system and it terminates its binary to evade detection. It also make hard forensics analysis by deleting the affected system’s event logs using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
Kaspersky Lab had discovered a new malware dubbed dvmap for Android was found and removed from the official Google Play store A New malware dubbed dvmap for Android was found and removed from the official Google Play store Kaspersky Lab had discovered the new malware that is capable of obtaining root access on Android devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
A study conducted by the security firm Rapid7 revealed that millions of devices remain exposed to cyber attacks via SMB, Telnet, RDP, and other types of improper configurations. Rapid7 published the second report National Exposure Index that provides Internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide information about the global exposure of devices. The researchers scanned the Internet for improperly configured services, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
Researchers at the security firm Yoroi have discovered a False Flag Attack on Multi-Stage Delivery of Malware to Italian Organisations. Everything started from a well edited Italian language email (given to me from a colleague of mine, thank you Luca!) reaching out many Italian companies. The Italian language email had a weird attachment: ordine_065.js (it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2017
Thailand: Police raided massive click farms, the agents have seized nearly half a million SIM cards and hundreds of iPhones used to promote products online. Police and army troops in Thailand has raided a massive click-fraud farm, the agents have seized nearly half a million SIM cards and hundreds of iPhones used to promote products online. The authorities have raided to rented houses […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2017
According to the data breach notification site LeakBase hackers have stolen 6 million accounts for the CashCrate Cash-for-Surveys Site. Another day another data breach, this time hackers have stolen 6 million accounts for CashCrate, a site where users can be paid to complete online surveys. The news was reported by Motherboard who obtained the database and confirmed that records […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2017
Victims of the Jaff ransomware can use an updated version of the Kaspersky Labs’s RakhniDecryptor tool to decrypt their encrypted files. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a weakness in the Jaff ransomware that allowed the researchers creating of decryption keys to unlock files encrypted by the malware. Once the victims were infected by the Jaff […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2017
An international operation conducted by the European police targeted customers of counter antivirus and crypter services: 6 arrested and tens of interviewed The Germany’s Kriminalinspektion Mayen along with the Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) have arrested six individuals and interviewed dozens of suspects as part of an international law enforcement operation targeting the users of two […]
