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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2018
Rainway reported that tens of thousands of Fortnite players have been infected with an adware while downloading fake v-buck generators Fortnite continues to be one of the most popular game and crooks are attempting to target millions of fans in different ways. In June, experts observed cyber criminals attempting to exploit the interest in forthcoming Fortnite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2018
A new variant of the infamous GandCrab ransomware V4 was released during the weekend, experts shared details of the threat, A new version of the dreaded GandCrab ransomware (V4) was released during the weekend and according to the experts it included numerous changes. New #GandCrab version "V4" GANDCRAB V4 Ransomware â Remove and Restore .KRAB […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2018
Huawei has rolled out security fixes for some enterprise and broadcast products to address a cryptography issue tracked as CVE-2017-17174. Huawei has released security updates for some enterprise and broadcast products to address a cryptography issue that was discovered in late 2017. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-17174, is related to the implementation of an insecure encryption […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2018
Siemens disclosed several vulnerabilities in some of its SICLOCK central plant clocks, including ones that have been rated as âcritical.â Siemens is warning of the presence of six vulnerabilities in some of its SICLOCK central plant clocks that used to synchronize time in industrial environments. “In the event of failure or loss of reception from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2018
This week researchers demonstrated that most Android phones released since 2012 are still vulnerable to the RAMpage attack. In 2012, security researchers identified a bug in modern DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips that could lead to memory corruption. In 2015, Google Project Zero researchers demonstrated “rowhammer“, a working exploit of this attack providing privilege […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2018
Iranian APT groups continue to very active, recently Charming Kitten cyber spies attempted to pose as an Israeli cyber-security firm that uncovered previous hacking campaigns. The Iranian Charming Kitten ATP group, aka Newscaster or Newsbeef, launched spear phishing attacks against people interested in reading reports about it. The Newscaster group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2018
Some Samsung devices are randomly sending photos taken with the camera to contacts in the address book without permission. Do you have a Samsung smartphone? There is something you need to know. Some devices are randomly sending photos taken with the camera to contacts in the address book without permission. The problem affected Galaxy S9 and S9+ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2018
Yesterday the social network giant Facebook started notifying 800,000 users affected by a blocking bug. The company has already fixed it. When a Facebook user blocks someone, the blocked user will be not able to interact with him, this means that he will not see his posts, it will not able to start conversations on Messenger or […]
