Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2019
Kaspersky experts recently discovered a backdoor dubbed Plurox that can spread itself over a local network and can allow installing additional malware. Kaspersky experts discovered the Plurox backdoor in February, it can spread itself over a local network and could be used by attackers to install additional malware. The Plurox backdoor is written in C […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
The head of London’s Serpentine Galleries resigned on Tuesday following a Guardian report about her links to the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. On Tuesday, the chief executive of London’s Serpentine Galleries, Yana Peel, resigned following the revelation of the Guardian newspaper about her links to the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. According to the newspaper, Yana […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
Expert discovered a new technique bypassing SMS-based two-factor authentication while circumventing Googleâs recent SMS permissions restrictions The popular security expert Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered some apps (namedBTCTurk Pro Beta and BtcTurk Pro Beta) impersonating the Turkish cryptocurrency exchange, BtcTurk, in the attempt of stealing login credentials. In order to steal the 2FA OTPs the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
A zero-day vulnerability affects multiple models of TP-Link Wi-Fi extenders, it could be exploited to remotely execute code. Security expert Grzegorz Wypych from IBM X-Force found a zero-day flaw that affects multiple models of TP-Link Wi-Fi extenders. The Wi-Fi extenders capture the Wi-Fi signal from the main network device and rebroadcast it to areas where […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
Researcher leaked online a dataset containing over 7,000,000 transactions scraped from the Venmo public API Venmo is a digital wallet app owned by PayPal that lets you make and share payments with friends. In August 2016, security expert Martin Vigo devised a method to abuse an optional SMS-based feature that allowed users to authorize payments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. DHS on Monday issued an alert for the BlueKeep Windows flaw (CVE-2019-0708). After Microsoft and the US NSA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. DHS on Monday issued an alert for the BlueKeep Windows flaw (CVE-2019-0708). Experts at the CISAÂ Agency successfully […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
Netflix researcher has identified several TCP networking vulnerabilities in FreeBSD and Linux kernels that could trigger a DoS condition. Jonathan Looney, a security expert at Netflix, found three Linux DoS vulnerabilities, two of them related to the minimum segment size (MSS) and TCP Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) capabilities, and one related only to MSS. The most severe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2019
Good news for the victims of the latest variants of the GandCrab ransomware, NoMoreRansomware released a free decryption tool. Victims of the latest variants of the GandCrab ransomware can now decrypt their files for free using a free decryptor tool released on the the NoMoreRansom website. The tool works with versions 5 to 5.2 of the ransomware, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2019
According to The New York Times, the United States planted destructive malware in Russiaâs electric power grid. The New York Times, citing current and former government officials, revealed that the United States planted a potentially destructive malware in Russiaâs electric power grid. The U.S. cyber army is targeting the Russian power grid since at least […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2019
Security researchers at Cofense have spotted a phishing campaign aimed at commercial banking customers distributing a new remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as WSH RAT. Security experts at Cofense Phishing Defence Center have spotted a phishing campaign aimed at commercial banking customers that is distributing a new remote access trojan tracked as WSH RAT. The […]
