Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2018
Google will ban cryptocurrency mining extensions from the official Chrome Web Store after finding many of them abusing users’ resources without consent. The number of malicious extensions is rapidly increased over the past few months, especially those related to mining activities. The company has introduced a new Web Store policy that bans any Chrome extension submitted to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2018
An analysis conducted by the Norwegian research nonprofit SINTEF revealed that the popular Grindr gay dating app is sharing its users’ HIV status with two other companies. Grindr gay-dating app made the headlines again, a few days ago an NBC report revealed that the app was affected by 2 security issues (now patched) that could have exposed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2018
FIN7 hackers stole credit and debit card information from millions of consumers who have purchased goods at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores. A new data breach made the headlines, the victim is Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores. According to the parent company Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), the security breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2018
Researchers John Mason with the help of TheBestVPN.com the ethical hacker File Descriptor from Cure53 tested 15 VPN services and 10 of them were causing DNS leaks through their Chrome browser extensions. Intro Google Chrome has a feature called DNS Prefetching(https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/dns-prefetching) which is an attempt to resolve domain names before a user tries to follow a link. It’s a solution to reduce latency delays […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2018
Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android miner dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that can brick infected devices Crooks are looking with increasing interest cryptocurrency mining malware developed for mobile devices. Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android malware dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that abuse device CPU to mine Monero cryptocurrency. HiddenMiner […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2018
After Cambridge Analytica case, Facebook announced security improvements to prevent future interference with elections. Facebook is under the fire after the revelation of the Cambridge Analytica case and its role in the alleged interference to the 2016 US presidential election. While the analysts are questioning about the interference with other events, including the Brexit vote, Facebook is now looking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2018
MITRE is evaluating a new service dubbed ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) for APT detection. MITRE is going to offer a new service based on its ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) framework to evaluate products based on their ability in detecting advanced persistent threats. “MITRE’s Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2018
The security researcher Dhiraj Mishra (@mishradhiraj_) has studied how VPNs & Privacy Browsers leak users’ IPs via WebRTC Hi Internet, You might have heard about VPN’s & Privacy Browsers leaking users’ IPs via WebRTC [1] [2] Summary: Got CVE-2018-6849 reserved, wrote a Metasploit Module for this issue which uses WebRTC and collects the leak private IP address, however this module may […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2018
The Philippine central bank has thrown an alert to local financial institutions following a cyber attack against the SWIFT servers at the Malaysian central bank. The Philippine central bank has thrown an alert to local financial institutions following a cyber attack against the Malaysian central bank. According to Malaysian governor, the hackers attempted to steal money through fraudulent wire […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2018
Airbnb China announced that it will share user data belonging to Chinese users with the Government to comply with national laws and regulations. Airbnb announced that it will share user data belonging to Chinese users with the Government. The company is notifying the Chinese users it will share guest’s information with local authorities to comply […]
