Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2019
Rapid7 announced the release of Metasploit 5.0, the latest version of the popular penetration testing framework that promises to be very easy to use. Rapid7 announced the release of Metasploit 5.0, the new version includes several new important features and, the company believes it will easier to use and more powerful. Most important changes introduced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2019
Z-WASP attack: Phishers are using a recently fixed flaw in Office 365 that allows them to bypass protections using zero-width spaces and deliver malicious messages to recipients. Microsoft recently fixed a vulnerability in Office 365 that was exploited by attackers to bypass existing phishing protections and deliver malicious messages to victimsâ inboxes. The vulnerability ties with the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2019
The British hacker Daniel Kaye has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the cyberattack on Liberian telecom firms. The British hacker Daniel Kaye (29) has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the 2016 attack that took down telecommunications services in Liberia. Kaye pleaded guilty in December to two charges under the Computer Misuse […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2019
Victims of the PyLocky Ransomware can use a tool released by security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group to decrypt their files for free. I have good and bad news for the victims of the PyLocky Ransomware. The good news is that security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group released a decryption tool […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2019
Ave Maria Malware – Phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector The Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab researchers analyzed phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector. The malicious emails try to impersonate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2019
The social media platform Reddit has notified users that some of them have been locked out of their accounts after detecting suspicious activity. Reddit locked down a large number of user accounts after due to a security concern after detecting suspicious activity on them. “If you are here because youâve been locked out of your […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2019
Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. Security experts at FireEye uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting government agencies, ISPs and other telecommunications providers, Internet infrastructure entities, and sensitive commercial organizations in the Middle East, North Africa, North America and Europe. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2019
Experts disclosed three flaws in the systemd, a software suite that provides fundamental building blocks for Linux operating systems. Security firm Qualys has disclosed three flaws (CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, and CVE-2018-16866 ) in a component of systemd, a software suite that provides fundamental building blocks for a Linux operating system used in most major Linux distributions. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2019
Kaspersky was a long accused to support Russian intelligence, in an ironic turn, source now revealed it helped to catch alleged NSA data thief Kaspersky was a long accused to support Russian intelligence in cyber espionage activities and for this reason, its products have been banned by the US Government and EU Parliament. The company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2019
Google released its security patches for Android in 2019 that addressed tens of vulnerabilities in the popular mobile OS. Google released the first batch of security patches for Android in 2019 that addressed tens of flaws, the most severe of them is the CVE-2018-9583 issue. The CVE-2018-9583Â flaw is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting […]
