Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2016
Apple issued security fixes for Mac OS X and Safari to patch zero-day flaws exploited by Pegasus spyware to spy on mobile users. A few days ago, we reported a detailed analysis of the Trident exploit that triggers three vulnerabilities in order to remotely hack Apple mobile devices through the installation of the Pegasus spyware. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2016
It has happened again, Mac users who were looking for the BitTorrent client Transmission might have been infected by the OSX/Keydnap malware. Security experts from ESET have spotted the popular BitTorrent client called Transmission distributing Mac malware called OSX/Keydnap that is used to steal the content of OS X’s keychain and maintain a permanent backdoor on victims’PC. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2016
According to the breach notification service LeakedSource roughly 43 million Last.fm accounts were compromised in a 2012 incident. In June 2012, the online music service Last.fm was compromised by hackers, in response the company notified the incident to its users inviting them to change their passwords. Some experts speculated the security breach took place several […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2016
SWIFT discloses more attacks against banks worldwide, pressures banks on security and urged member banks to implement the new SWIFT software by November 19. In the last months, a worrisome string of attacks against banks worldwide through the SWIFT system has alarmed the banking industry. The so-called “SWIFT hackers” have conducted multiple cyber attacks against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2016
Today I have the pleasure to share with you the interview with one of the most popular Spanish cyber security experts, Lorenzo Martinez. Enjoy it! Lorenzo Martinez is the CTO of Securizame, a Spanish security company fully oriented to consultancy, ethical hacking, forensics and security trainings. He is also one of the four editors and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2016
A joint research conducted by Level 3 Communications and Flashpoint allowed the identification of a million devices infected by the BASHLITE malware. Do you remember the BASHLITE malware? It was a strain of malware (also known as Lizkebab, Torlus and Gafgyt) detected by experts at Trend Micro shortly after the public disclosure of the ShellShock bug. The BASHLITE malware includes the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2016
In response to the numerous data breaches suffered by other services, the music streaming service Spotify forced a password reset for a number of users. In the last months, numerous IT companies suffered a major data breach, including Dropbox, LinkedIn, MySpace, VK.com, and Tumblr. The criminal underground is flooded by login credentials from the above services that offered for sales by hackers. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2016
A group of Israeli researchers has devised a new technique dubbed USBee to hack air-gapped networks and exfiltrate information. Mordechai Guri, head of R&D at Ben-Gurion’s Cyber Security Center and the chief scientist officer at Morphisec Endpoint Security, and his team have devised a new technique dubbed USBee to hack air-gapped networks and exfiltrate information. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2016
NorthScripts is one of the members of the PøwerfulGreəkArmy hacker group, a young team that conducted several hacking campaigns against multiple targets. Enjoy the interview! Could you tell me more about you? Could you tell me which his your technical background and when you started hacking? I started hacking in 2013, but got better in 2015 when I […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2016
A DropBox data breach occurred in 2012 is forcing the company to reset login passwords for users included in a data dump leaked online. Another clamorous data breach is in the headlines, a data dump containing more than 68 Million account credentials for online cloud storage platform Dropbox was leaked online. Earlier this week, Dropbox […]
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