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Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2017
Fortinet researchers spotted a malware that infects both Microsoft and Apple OSs

Malware researchers at Fortinet have discovered a weaponized Word document that is able to start the infection process on both Microsoft and Apple OSs. Security researchers at Fortinet have spotted a weaponized Word document that has been designed to spread malware on either Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X, it is able to determine which OS […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2017
QNAP QTS Domain Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The vulnerability allows any local user, such as “httpdusr” used to run web application, to escalate to Domain Administrator if the NAS is a domain member. Pasquale ‘sid’ Fiorillo from ISGroup (www.isgroup.biz), an Italian Security Company, and Guido ‘go’ Oricchio of PCego (www.pcego.com), a System Integrator, have just released a critical security advisory for any […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2017
Data breach – Are you an Android Forums user? Resets your passwords now.

Android Forums notified a data breach, according to the moderators at the site roughly 2.5 percent of users have been affected. Android Forums is the last victim of a data breach, roughly 2.5 percent of users have been affected. The moderators at the Android Forums confirmed they’ve been able to identify the alleged compromised accounts, in response […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2017
Vault7 Dark Matter batch – CIA has been targeting the iPhone supply chain since at least 2008

Wikileaks released the second batch of CIA’s Vault 7 dump, it contains other precious documents to understand the way CIA was hacking systems worldwide. The Wikileaks Vault 7 dump will make for a long time the headlines, the organization has just released another lot of classified documents related the hacking tools and techniques and exploit codes […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2017
Machete espionage campaign continues to target LATAM countries

The threat group behind the Machete cyber espionage campaign first spotted in 2014 continues to target entities in Spanish-speaking countries. According to the researchers at security firm Cylance Threat actors behind the cyber espionage campaign dubbed Machete continue to target entities in Spanish-speaking countries. The Machete campaign was first uncovered by the researchers at Kaspersky in August 2014 and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2017
Turkish Crime Family group will remotely wipe hundreds of millions of iPhones unless Apple pays ransom

Hackers belonging to the Turkish Crime Family group threaten to remotely wipe hundreds of millions of iPhones unless Apple pays a ransom. Crooks are claiming to have over 627 millions of iCloud credentials and intend to wipe date from iPhones, iPads and Macs if the Apple does not pay $150,000 within two weeks. Members of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2017
Rogue Cellphone towers used to spread the Android Swearing Trojan

Chinese scammers are deploying rogue cellphone towers to spread the Android Swearing Trojan via malicious URL in SMS messages. Chinese scammers are deploying fake mobile base stations to spread the Android Swearing Trojan in text messages. The attackers have improved the well-known Smishing attack using rogue cell phone towers as the attack vector and distribute the Android […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2017
Vulnerabilities in LastPass allowed attackers to steal passwords

The notorious Google Project Zero hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered numerous vulnerabilities in the Chrome and Firefox extensions of the LastPass password manager. The Security expert at Google Project Zero Tavis Ormandy discovered several vulnerabilities in Chrome and Firefox extensions of the LastPass password manager that can be exploited to steal passwords. The expert also wrote PoC exploit for the flaw […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2017
New Metasploit RFTransceiver extension allows testing IoT sevices

Metasploit RFTransceiver extension implements the Hardware Bridge API that will allow organizations to test wireless devices operating outside 802.11 spec. Recently we reported the news of the availability of a new hardware bridge for Metasploit extension to test hardware, including IoT devices. We have to consider that IoT devices are pervading our day life such as into […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2017
Once again Three mobile customers in UK experienced data breach

UK Three mobile customers experienced a new data breach, this time a technical issue caused the exposure of their personal details. It has happened again, customers of the company Three UK experienced a new data breach. Some customers logging into their accounts were able to view personal data (names, addresses, phone numbers) and call histories of other […]