Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 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 Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·     Hackers tried to cause a blast at a Saudi petrochemical plant ·     Russia-linked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2018
The US DoJ and Department of the Treasury on Friday announced charges against nine Iranian hackers for alleged involvement in state-sponsored hacking activities. The US Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury on Friday announced charges against nine Iranians for alleged involvement in a massive state-sponsored hacking scheme, the hackers hit more than 300 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2018
The US investigators concluded that the Russia-linked hacker Guccifer 2.0 is directly tied to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency. Guccifer 2.0 is the alleged hacker behind the DNC hack that also released a huge trove of documents about House Democrats, including Nancy Pelosiâs sensitive data. In February 2016, researchers from security company CrowdStrike, pointed out that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2018
Computer systems in the City of Atlanta were infected by ransomware, the cyber attack was confirmed by the City officials. The city learned of the attack at around 5:40 am local time on Thursday. On Thursday, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on Thursday that a malware has taken in hostage some internal systems, city’s data were encrypted. Mayor @KeishaBottoms holds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2018
The code hosting service GitHub confirmed that the introduction of GitHub security alerts in November allowed to obtain a significant reduction of vulnerable code libraries on the platform. Github alerts warn developers when including certain flawed software libraries in their projects and provide advice on how to address the issue. Last year GitHub first introduced the Dependency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2018
Drupal Security Team confirmed that a âhighly criticalâ vulnerability affects Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the availability of security updates on March 28th. A âhighly criticalâ vulnerability affects Drupal 7 and 8 core and Drupal developers are currently working to address it. Drupal maintainers initially planned to issue a security release of Drupal 7.x, 8.3.x, 8.4.x, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2018
Google announced that mitigations for devices with Intel processors that are affected by the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities will be available for latest stable channel update for Googleâs Chrome OS operating system. The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could be exploited by attackers to bypass memory isolation mechanisms and access target sensitive data. The Meltdown attack could allow attackers to read […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2018
Security experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new Android Trojan dubbed TeleRAT that uses Telegram Bot API to communicate with the command and control (C&C) server and to exfiltrate data. TeleRAT appears to be originating from and/or to be targeting individuals in Iran, experts found similarities with another Android malware dubbed IRRAT Trojan, which also leverages […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday commented the Cambridge Analytica case, he admitted the company made mistakes. Finally, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday commented the Cambridge Analytica case, he admitted that his company has failed in protecting its users, but he pointed out that the company has already adopted necessary measures to prevent future […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2018
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) power utility confirmed early this week that it has been hacked over the weekend. A few days ago, the US government issued an alert to warn of cyber attacks powered by Russian state-sponsored hackers against US critical infrastructure. News of the day is that Puerto Rico power utility, aka Puerto […]
