Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2018
Advanced Digital Broadcast has rolled out security patched to fix three critical vulnerabilities in Its Broadband gear. Advanced Digital Broadcast has released patches for three critical vulnerabilities affecting broadband gateways. All the ADB Broadband Gateways and Routers based on Epicentro platform are affected by the vulnerabilities. The flaws were discovered nearly two years ago, they are a privilege escalation bug, an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2018
Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni malware that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner. Experts from Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni ransomware family that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner depending upon their configurations. “Way back in 2013 our malware analysts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2018
This week Google released the July 2018 Android patches that address tens of vulnerabilities in the popular mobile operating system. Google released the July 2018 Android patches that address a total of 11 vulnerabilities, including three Critical issues and 8 High-risk flaws that affect the framework, media framework, and system. The critical vulnerabilities are remote code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2018
Chinese hackers breached into the systems of Australian National University (ANU) and according to the experts they are still there. Chinese hackers continue to target organizations worldwide, this time attackers based in China breached into the systems of Australian National University (ANU), one of the most prestigious Australian universities. The bad news is that experts are still working to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2018
Ex-employee at the surveillance firm NSO Group has been arrested and charged with stealing phone hacking tools from the company and attempting to sell it. A former employee of one of the most popular surveillance firm, NSO Group, has been arrested and charged with stealing phone hacking tools from the company and attempting to sell […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2018
Israeli military intelligence accused Hamas operatives of creating tainted apps to lure soldiers into downloading spyware onto their phones. According to a report published by the Israeli military, Hamas hackers are attempting to lure Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers into installing tainted apps on their devices. Israeli military already blamed Hamas of similar attacks, but this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2018
Recently experts from Talos security spotted a malware campaign leveraging Smoke Loader to steal credentials from a broad range of applications. Security experts have discovered a new malware campaign leveraging Smoke Loader to steal credentials from web browsers, email clients, and other popular applications. The attack chain starts with messages using a weaponized Word document […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2018
The Thunderbird team released a new version of the popular email client that addresses many security issued, including the EFAIL vulnerability. Thunderbird has released a new version to address a dozen security vulnerabilities, including the EFAIL encryption issue that was discovered in May. The new version addresses two EFAIL-related issues in the way Thunderbird handles […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2018
Thereâs a prevailing mindset that suggests if organizations ban all the things that pose risks to overall cybersecurity, theyâre taking the most effective approach to make their organizations secure. Initially, that line of thinking seems sensible in some regards. After all, if the aspects that threaten cybersecurity aren’t allowed at all, the problems they pose […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2018
Crooks leverage an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies, they don’t inject the CoinHive JavaScript miner directly into compromised websites. Security researchers at MalwareLabs have uncovered a new crypto mining campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies, differently from other campaigns, crooks don’t inject the CoinHive JavaScript miner directly in compromised websites. CoinHive also […]
