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Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2018
Microsoft April Patch Tuesday – Update your system now to avoid being hacked by visiting a site

  Microsoft has released April Patch Tuesday security updates that address 66 vulnerabilities, five of them could be exploited by an attacker to compromise a PC by just tricking the victims into visiting a website or opening a specifically crafted file. Hackers can compromise your computer just visiting a malicious website or clicking a malicious link. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2018
Adobe April Security Bulletin Tuesday fixed 4 critical flaws in Flash

Adobe April Security Bulletin Tuesday is out, the company has addressed four critical vulnerabilities in the Flash Player. Adobe April Security Bulletin has addressed a total of 19 vulnerabilities in its products, including Flash Player, Experience Manager, InDesign CC, Digital Editions, ColdFusion and the PhoneGap Push plugin. The company has released the Flash Player version 29.0.0.140 that fixed […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
Top VEVO Music videos Including ‘Despacito’ defaced by hackers

Some of the most popular music VEVO videos on YouTube, including the world’s most popular video ‘Despacito’ has been hacked by a duo calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi’SH. Some of the most popular music videos on YouTube, including the world’s most popular YouTube video ‘Despacito’ has been hacked. Popular videos of  pop stars like Shakira, Drake, Selena Gomez, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
SirenJack flaw in Emergency Alert Systems could be exploited to trigger false alarms

“SirenJack is a vulnerability found in ATI Systems’ emergency alert systems that can be exploited via radio frequencies (RF) to activate sirens and trigger false alarms.” Security experts at Bastille have devised a new technique, dubbed SirenJack to remotely hack emergency warning systems. Emergency warning systems are used worldwide to alert the public of emergency situations […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
Public services at the Caribbean island Sint Maarten shut down by a cyber attack

A cyber attack shut down the entire government infrastructure of the Caribbean island Sint Maarten. public services were interrupted. A massive cyber attack took offline the entire government infrastructure of the Caribbean island Sint Maarten. it is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Government building remained closed after the attack. “The Ministry of General Affairs hereby informs […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
Booby-trapped Office docs build with ThreadKit trigger CVE-2018-4878 flaw

Microsoft Office documents created with the exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit now include the code for CVE-2018-4878 flaw exploitation. At the end of March, security experts at Proofpoint discovered a Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit that has been used to spread a variety of malware, including banking Trojans and RATs (i.e. Trickbot, Chthonic, FormBook and Loki Bot). […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
Linux open source utility Beep is affected by several vulnerabilitues

Researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities in the Linux command line tool Beep, some experts suggest to remove the utility from distros. An unnamed security researcher has found several vulnerabilities in the Linux command line tool Beep, including a severe flaw introduced by a patch for a privilege escalation vulnerability. Beep is a small open source utility […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2018
Sodexo Filmology data breach – Users need cancel their credit cards

Sodexo food services and facilities management company notified a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform Sodexo Filmology. Sodexo food services and facilities management company notified a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform, Filmology […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2018
Verge Cryptocurrency suffered a cyber attack, dev team responded with an Hard Fork

The verge (XVG) currency schema was attacked last week, the hacker reportedly making off with $1 million-worth of tokens. The dev team responded with an Hard Fork. Ripple (XRP) and Verge (XVG) are two cryptocurrencies that attracted many investors in the last months. Last week attackers hackers the Verge cryptocurrency system by exploiting a vulnerability in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2018
Crooks distribute malware masquerade as fake software updates and use NetSupport RAT

Researchers at FireEye have spotted a hacking campaign leveraging compromised websites to spread fake updates for popular software that were also used to deliver the NetSupport Manager RAT. NetSupport is an off-the-shelf RAT that could be used by system admins for remote administration of computers. In the past, crooks abuse this legitimate application to deploy malware on victim’s […]