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Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2016
Bangladesh Bank hacked due to inadequate defense systems

Investigators discovered that the hackers managed to gain access to the Bangladesh Bank network because it was using second-hand switches and no firewall. In  March, unknown hackers have stolen more than $100 million from the Bangladesh Bank account at the US Federal Reserve Bank. Now new disconcerting news regarding the Bangladesh bank is in the headlines. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2016
Facebook passes the 1 million Tor users Milestone

Facebook announced that the number of its users accessing through the Tor network has passed 1 million. The number is calculated over a period of 30 days. Facebook has announced Friday that it has passed 1 million Tor users. As announced in a blog post, the number is calculated over a period of 30 days. “Over […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2016
Software Reverse Engineering Process: Basics and Some Explanations

Software reverse engineering is frequently mentioned in several contexts, including many illegal activities. What does it mean? Software reverse engineering is frequently mentioned in the context of illegal activity: the stealing of IP, fraud with software licenses, and so forth. At the same time, reversing has legal applications, the most known of which is malware research. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2016
Microsoft Windows Applocker circumvented by exploiting native OS utility to remote execute code

The native Windows command-line utility Regsvr32 can be exploited to bypass MS Applocker and run remote code bypassing protection mechanisms. A security researcher recently discovered a vulnerability that may very well reap chaos in the Windows world, it can be used to bypass whitelisting protections such as Microsoft’s AppLocker. The Microsoft digitally-signed binary is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2016
MongoDB DB containing 93.4 million Mexican voter records open online

The security expert  Chris Vickery discovered a 132 GB MongoDB database open online and containing 93.4 million Mexican voter records. Once again a MongoDB poorly configurated exposed million records, once again data of voters are left accessible online. This time, the popular researcher Chris Vickery has discovered on Amazon’s AWS online a 132 GB database containing 93.4 […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2016
Facebook hacked, someone deployed a malicious webshell on its server

Facebook hacked!  The security expert Orange Tsai discovered the presence of a malicious webshell on one of the company servers. The security expert Orange Tsai from the DevCore firm has found a malicious web shell on Facebook Server. The researcher was analyzing the Facebook’s infrastructure when noticed a domain called files.fb.com. Intrigued, the expert has tried to access […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2016
FBI paid more than $1.3 million to hack into San Bernardino shooter iPhone

FBI Director Comey explained at the Aspen Security Forum in London that the Agency paid more than $1.3 million to break into San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. FBI Director Comey explained at the Aspen Security Forum in London that the Agency paid more than $1.3 million to break into San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone The FBI vs […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2016
JIGSAW ransomware slowly deletes your files as you shilly-shally to pay the ransom

A new threat is appeared in the wild it is the JIGSAW ransomware that slowly deletes your files as you shilly-shally to pay the ransom. A new crypto-malware has appeared in the wild, its name is JIGSAW ransomware. The BitcoinBlackmailer.exe explains JIGSAW ransomware will encrypt your files adding ‘.FUN’ extension. The author, in the Saw-movie […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2016
Asian Nation-State hackers use fileless RAT for their hacking campaign

State-sponsored actors in Asia have been leveraging fileless RAT for their hacking campaigns in order to avoid the detection. Security experts from SentinelOne spotted nation-state actors in Asia running espionage campaigns relying on fileless Remote Access Trojan. The state-sponsored hackers were injecting the RAT payload directly into the memory of the target host in order to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2016
Healthcare Industry Tops List of Hacker Targets: More than 100 Million Medical Records Compromised in 2015

According to a research conducted by IBM the healthcare industry was a privileged target of cybercriminals last year, more than 100M Records Compromised. The healthcare industry was the number one target of cybercriminals in 2015, new research indicates. Previously, the banking industry held the top position. In 2015, more than 100 million healthcare records were […]