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Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2017
Toast Overlay attacks, a Cloak and Dagger with No Permissions, fixed by Google

Google just fixed a high-severity Android vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-0752, that ties with the Toast Overlay attacks. Security researchers with Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, warned of a high-severity Android vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-0752, that ties with the “toast attack” overlay vulnerability. The experts reported that it is possible to abuse Android’s toast notification, a feature […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2017
Crooks leverage Facebook CDN servers to bypass security solutions

Crooks are abusing Facebook CDN servers to deliver malware and evading detection exploiting the trust in the CDN network of the social networking giant. Crooks are abusing Facebook CDN (Content Delivery Network) servers to store malware and to deliver it evading detection exploiting the trust in the CDN network of the social network giant. Researchers from […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 127 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. ·      FICO reports a 39 Percent Rise in Debit Cards Compromised in US ·      Google removed almost 300 Android apps involved in DDoS attack ·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 126 – News of the week ·      US […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2017
Mexican tax refund MoneyBack site exposed 400GB of sensitive customer data

Experts from security firm Kromtech discovered the Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed 400GB of sensitive information. Another huge data leak made the headlines, experts from security firm Kromtech discovered the Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed sensitive customer information online. because of a misconfigured database. Kromtech discovered the unsecured CouchDB during a routine security audit. The Mexican VAT refund […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2017
Member of the ‘Crackas With Attitude’ who hacked US intel officials has been sentenced to 5 years in jail

A member of the hacker group ‘Crackas With Attitude’ who hacked US intel officials has been sentenced to 5 years in jail. A member of the dreaded hacking crew Crackas With Attitude has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. “Justin G. Liverman, aka “D3F4ULT”, 25, of Morehead City, pleaded guilty on January 6. Liverman admitted to being […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2017
Microsoft confirmed it won’t fix kernel issue that could be exploited to evade antivirus

A design flaw within the Windows kernel could be exploited by attackers to evade antivirus and stop them from recognizing malware. A design flaw within the Windows kernel is the root cause for antivirus stopping from recognizing malware, and the bad news is that Microsoft won’t fix it because the tech giant doesn’t consider it as a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2017
Experts observed the active exploitation of the CVE-2017-9805 Struts vulnerability

Hackers are exploiting in the wild a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Struts 2, tracked as CVE-2017-9805, that was patched a few days ago. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-9805 is related to the way Struts deserializes untrusted data, it affects all versions of Apache Struts since 2008, from Struts 2.5 to Struts 2.5.12. The experts warn that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2017
Hacker Interview – Jonturk 75 – JRB

Today I have the pleasure to interview Jonturk 75 one of the hackers that hit high profile targets, including the notorious hacker group OurMine. Jonturk 75 and the hacker group he takes part in have recently made the headlines news with a series of attacks against high profile targets. Following CNN and Reuters hacks they’ve recently defaced […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2017
DolphinAttack – Hackers control Siri, Google Now, Alexa voice assistants with ultrasound

The DolphinAttack technique allows hackers to control Siri, Google Now, Alexa and other voice assistants with commands in ultrasonic frequencies. A team of researchers from the Chinese Zhejiang University has demonstrated how to control several popular speech recognition systems using ultrasound. The attack technique was dubbed ‘DolphinAttack’, it was successfully tested against Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Now, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2017
Equifax data breach could impact 143 million US consumers

Equifax, one of the three major US consumer credit reporting agencies is the last victim of a data breach that may have affected upwards to 143 million Americans. According to a statement published by the Equifax, crooks exploited an unnamed U.S. website application vulnerability from mid-May to July to access sensitive data in its systems. “Equifax Inc. […]