Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2018
Patrick Wardle, the popular white hat hacker, has discovered a zero-day vulnerability that could allow attackers to carry out synthetic mouse-click attacks Patrick Wardle, the popular white hat hacker and chief research officer at Digita Security, has discovered a zero-day vulnerability that could allow attackers to mimic mouse-clicks for kernel access. Wardle presented his discovery […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2018
Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by carrying out DNS hijacking. Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by changing the DNS settings. With this trick, cybercriminals steal login credentials for bank accounts, Radware researchers reported. The attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·     A malware paralyzed TSMC plants where also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2018
UpGuard discovered an unsecured GoDaddy’s Amazon S3 bucket containing sensitive information related to more than 31,000 GoDaddy systems. Experts at cybersecurity firm UpGuard have reported that another big company was victim of a data leak, it is the domain name registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy. The popular UpGuardâs risk analyst Chris Vickery discovered an unsecured […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2018
Journalists revealed a new surveillance program that targets US citizens, the program was previously-undisclosed and code named ‘Quiet Skies’. According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), that has admitted the Quiet Skies, the program has monitored about 5,000 U.S. citizens on domestic flights in recent months. Quiet Skies was criticized by privacy advocates because the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2018
Group-IB is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. According to Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence, over a year, the number of shadow-forum ads […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2018
Researchers demonstrated how a sophisticated threat actor can hack a brand new Apple Mac computer in enterprise environments through MDM. A security duo composed by Jesse Endahl, CPO and CSO at macOS management firm Fleetsmith, and Max BĂ©langer, staff engineer at Dropbox, demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference how a persistent attacker could compromise […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2018
Security researchers at Intezer and McAfee have conducted a joint investigation that allowed them to collect evidence that links malware families attributed to North Korean APT groups such as the notorious Lazarus Group and Group 123. The experts focused their analysis on the code reuse, past investigations revealed that some APT groups share portions of code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2018
The popular expert Jens ‘Atom’ Steube devised a new WiFi hack that allows cracking WiFi passwords of most modern routers. Jens ‘Atom’ Steube, the lead developer of the popular password-cracking tool Hashcat, has developed a new WiFi hacking technique that allows cracking WiFi passwords of most modern routers. Jens ‘Atom’ Steube, the lead developer of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2018
Trustwave developed Social Mapper an Open Source Tool that uses facial recognition to correlate social media profiles across different social networks. Security experts at Trustwave have released Social Mapper, a new open-source tool that allows finding a person of interest across social media platform using facial recognition technology. The tool was developed to gather intelligence from […]
