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Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2016
Government Agencies probed over use of backdoored Juniper equipment

The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is probing US Government Agencies over use of backdoored Juniper equipment. A number of US Government Agencies are concerned about the use of Juniper firewalls affected by the recently uncovered backdoor. The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has sent letters to dozens of government agencies and departments asking […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
A new wave of attacks linked to the Codoso ATP Group

According to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 the Chinese APT group Codoso has been targeting organizations in various industries in a new wave of cyber attacks. The group of experts at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have uncovered a new cyber espionage operation conducted by the Chinese AT Codoso  (aka C0d0so0 or Sunshop Group). The Codoso hacking crew has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Be careful, opening crashsafari.com your mobile will crash

It is the joke of these hours,users are sharing a link to crashsafari.com on social media platform that could crash friends’ iPhone and iPad. Do not open any a link to crashsafari.com on your iPhone, iPad or even Macs, visiting the website will cause the Safari application to crash and Apple device to restart. Obviously, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Flaw in Magento exposes millions of websites at risk of takeover

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Magento exposes millions of e-commerce websites at risk of takeover, update your platform as soon as possible Once again a vulnerability in the popular Magento e-commerce platform opens at risk of hijacking attacks millions of online merchants. According to the experts at Sucuri, the Magento e-commerce platform was affected by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
Apple can access your encrypted iMessages

Apple is not able to read messages sent between devices through iMessages but it is still able to access data in the backups. Let’s do a summary of previous events, following the Snowden‘ revelation of the global surveillance programs operated by the NSA the IT giants reacted defending their business and announcing the defense of the privacy of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
OpKillingBay – Anonymous shut down Japanese airport site to protest against slaughter of Dolphin

OpKillingBay – A group of hackers linked to the Anonymous collective shut down the Japanese Airport Website to protest against the slaughter of Dolphin. The collective Anonymous has launched a DDoS attack that shut down the Website of the Japanese Narita International Airport on Friday night (at around 9:30 p.m) until Saturday (around 1 a.m). The attack has been confirmed by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
A flaw in TeslaCrypt ransomware allows file recovering

The victims of the infamous TeslaCrypt ransomware can now rejoice, there is a free tool to decrypt files encrypted by TeslaCrypt and TeslaCrypt 2.0 TeslaCrypt is one of the most insidious ransomware first detected in the wild in 2015, today I have a good news for its victims. TeslaCrypt was first detected in February 2015, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
Operators behind Angler Exploit Kit included CryptoWall 4.0

The latest variant of CryptoWall 4.0, one of the most popular and dangerous ransomware threats, has been recently added to the infamous Angler Exploit Kit. In my 2016 Cyber Security Predictions, I have predicted the criminal practices of the extortion will reach levels never seen before. Cyber criminals will threaten victims with ransomware and DDoS attack in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Skype – IP will now be hidden by default to avoid attacks

Skype announced it will hide the user’s IP address, the new security feature is enabled by default in the latest update provided by the company. Skype now hides users’ IP addresses, a measure implemented to protect them against attacks from online trolls. Skype announced the security feature this week in a blog post, the feature is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 44 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Cyber defence is a profitable Hamster Wheel Energy industry under unceasing attack in 2015 Security Affairs newsletter Round 43 – News of the week Critical OpenSSH bug leaks private crypto keys just fixed LastPass phishing attack could […]