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Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2016

Homeland Security – US Consular Consolidated Database vulnerable to cyber attacks

According to the results of an internal review, the US passport and visa Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) database is open to intrusion. According to the results of an internal review of the US State Department, the Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) is vulnerable to cyber attacks. The State Department considers the CCD as an “unclassified but […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2016

APT6 compromised the US government networks for years

The federal bureau of investigation issued an alert related the APT6 state-sponsored hacking group that has compromised the US Government networks for years. The FBI revealed that “a group of malicious cyber actors have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011. The alert was published online by AlenVault […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2016

Keep Windows machines infected abusing Windows Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Two forensics experts have demonstrated how to abuse the Windows Desired State Configuration (DSC) feature to gain persistence on the compromised machine. At the last Black Hat Asia, the forensics experts Matt Hastings and Ryan Kazanciyan from Tanium have demonstrated how to abuse the Windows Desired State Configuration (DSC) feature to gain persistence on the compromised machine. The DSC […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2016

Is the hack of an email server behind the Panama Papers?

Which is the source of Panama Papers? According to Mossack the hackers breached its systems, according to the experts its email server was breached. The Panama Papers is a huge trove of strictly confidential documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca was leaked online during the weekend, it is largest data leaks ever. The entire archive […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2016

Flaw in CISCO FirePower Firewall allows malware evade detection

A flaw in the family of CISCO FirePower Firewall devices allows malware to bypass detection mechanism. Cisco is releasing security updates to fix a critical vulnerability (CVE-2016-1345) that affects one of its newest products, the FirePower firewall. The flaw has been discovered by security researchers at Check Point Security. According to the security advisory published by […]