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Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2015
YiSpecter iOS Malware can infect any Apple iOS device

Experts at Paloalto Networks discovered a strain of Apple iOS malware dubbed YiSpecter that is able to infect both jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices. The recent XCodeGhost attack suffered by Apple demonstrated that nobody is completely secure from malware-based attacks. Now security researchers at PaloAlto Networks have discovered a new malware dubbed YiSpecter that they sustain is able to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2015
AV-Test – Which is the best Antivirus for Linux systems?

The Independent AV-Test Institute has analyzed 16 Linux security solutions against Windows and Linux threats under Ubuntu. The results are disconcerting. The result of the tests on Linux security solutions demonstrates that many Linux machines are vulnerable to cyber attacks, let’s consider to billions of internet users that daily access Web servers. In many cases, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2015
How to Hack and Decrypt WhatsApp Database on rooted devices

The post includes a detailed procedure to hack and decrypt WhatsApp Database remotely on rooted Android mobile devices. Very Interesting! A few hours ago it has been published an interesting post on “How to Hack and Decrypt WhatsApp Database (Remotely) [ROOT]” that explains how to extract and decrypt WhatsApp database from a rooted Android system. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2015
Fareit malware avoids detection using a different file hash for each attack

Security experts at Cisco Talos have discovered a new strain of the Fareit Info stealer that uses a different File hash for each attack to avoid AV Detection Security experts at the Cisco Talos team have detected a new strain of the Fareit malware. Fareit is an info stealer that has been around since 2012, it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2015
Hacking drones by exploiting design flaws

At the Virus Bulletin 2015 conference, the security researcher Oleg Petrovsky detailed methods that can be used to hack drones with pre-programmed routes. The drone industry is growing at a rapid pace, the aerospace research company Teal Group estimated that sales of military and civilian drones will total over $89 billion in the next 10 […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2015
IT Security in SMEs: Guidelines published by UNICRI

The UNICRI published in September a new study about the security of Italian small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which are a very attractive target for crooks. UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute) published in September 2015 a new study about the IT security of Italian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This research […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 29 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Cisco released a tool to scan for SYNful_Knock implants Aerospace Probes released to stratosphere for spying weapons Last weeks cookie-vuln wont be the last, security bod says Insult to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2015
Bogus PayPal App used to spread a banking Trojan

Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a spam campaign spreading a bogus PayPal app to steal German users’ banking credentials. A spam campaign is targeting German Andoird users, the malicious emails impersonate PayPal trying to trick the recipient into downloading a bogus PayPal app update that hides a banking Trojan. “Mobile banking is now used by […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2015
Who is the unknown buyer that bought Adblock Extension

The creator of the popular Adblock Extension made a shocking revelation, the company has been sold to an unknown buyer. Who is and which are the risks? The popular Adblock Extension has been sold to an unknown buyer, Michael Gundlach its creator made the shocking revelation. Michael Gundlach doesn’t provide further details on the sale, he kept secret the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2015
US state police cars are vulnerable to cyberattack

Virginia State Police (VSP) launched a project to test the resilience to cyber attacks of police cars (models 2012 Chevrolet Impalas and 2013 Ford Tauruses) A couple of months ago the security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated how to remotely hack a connected, we the news that cars sued by the US state police […]