Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2018
The special prosecutor Robert Mueller has accused thirteen Russian nationals of tampering with the 2016 presidential election and charged them with conspiring against the United States. Thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian entities have been indicted for a massive operation aimed to influence the 2016 Presidential election. The special prosecutor Robert Mueller has accused the defendants of tampering with the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2018
Researchers at the MalwareHunterTeam spotted a new strain of ransomware called Saturn Ransomware, the name derives from the .saturn extension it appends to the name of the encrypted files. Currently, the malware requests victims of $300 USD payment that doubles after 7 days. Once infected a system, the Saturn Ransomware checks if it is running in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2018
A new attack against the SWIFT system made the headlines again, unknown hackers have stolen 339.5 million roubles (roughly $6 million) from a Russian bank last year. The news of the attack against the international payments messaging system was reported on Friday by the Russian central bank, this is the last incident of a long string […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
Researchers discovered an Amazon S3 bucket contains personal information and scans of IDs of some 119,000 US and international citizens. It has happened again, researchers discovered another unsecured Amazon S3 bucket holding a huge trove of data that was exposed online. The Amazon S3 bucket contains personal information and scans of IDs of some 119,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week. OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week. TLS protocol was designed to allow client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a secure way preventing message forgery, eavesdropping, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
Researchers discovered a new dangerous text bomb that crashes Apple devices, only a single character of the Indian Telugu language could create the chaos. A new ‘text bomb’ threatens Apple devices, just a single character of the Indian alphabet (precisely the Telugu language, a Dravidian language spoken in India by about 70 million people) can crash your device […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
Dell EMC addressed two critical vulnerabilities that affect the management interfaces for its VMAX enterprise storage systems. The Dell EMCâs VMAX Virtual Appliance (vApp) Manager is an essential component of a wide range of the enterprise storage systems. The first flaw tracked as CVE-2018-1215Â is an arbitrary file upload vulnerability that could be exploited by a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2018
The United Kingdon’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office formally accuses the Russian cyber army of launching the massive NotPetya ransomware attack. The UK Government formally accuses the Russian cyber army of launching the massive NotPetya ransomware attack. The United Kingdon’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office “attributed the NotPetya cyber-attack to the Russian Government.” According to the UK, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2018
SAP Security Notes â February 2018: SAP Security Notes February 2018 addressed several vulnerabilities including High-Risk flaws. SAP has released February 2018 Patches that addressed some high-risk vulnerabilities in its software, a total of 26 Security Notes (5 high-, 19 medium- and 2 low-risk). Once again, the missing authorization check is the most common vulnerability type this month. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2018
Android Security Bulletin for February 2018 – Google has fixed tens of vulnerabilities for Android OS, including several critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws. The Android Security Bulletin for February 2018 addresses 26 vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system, most of which are elevation of privilege flaws. The 2018-02-01 security patch level fixed 7 vulnerabilities, 6 in […]
