Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2018
It’s official, Microsoft’s Skype is rolling out a new feature called Private Conversations, which uses end-to-end encryption. The latest version of Skype implements end-to-end encryption and introduces the support for the Signal protocol. which is the protocol used by WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Allo, and Signal. Attackers will not able to snoop on Skype Private Conversations will support text, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2018
A new variant of the infamous Ursnif malware spread in the wild and adopts a new advanced evasion technique dubbed Double Process Hollowing. Whereas the malware LockPos, famous for its new incredibly advanced and sophisticated evasion technique, spread and affected many Points of Sale, another variant spread in the wild and adopts a similar but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2018
An attacker can secretly eavesdrop on your private end-to-end encrypted group chats on WhatsApp, Threema and Signal messaging apps. Even if the messaging services implement end-to-end encryption, an attacker or someone in the company that provides the service can decrypt your messages. A Group of researchers from Ruhr-UniversitĂ€t Bochum (RUB) in Germany discovered that anyone who controls […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2018
Researchers at security firm We Are Segment have discovered a vulnerability in Gmail, a âdistortedâ message shuts down the most famous webmail in the world. This Cybersec company We Are Segment, part of the Interlogica group, discovered a severe vulnerability in Gmail. Last month the Italian firm made the headlines due to the discovery of the Tormoil […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
Security Researchers from Cyberbit have discovered a new malware injection technique being used by a variant of Flokibot malware named LockPoS. A Point of Sale (PoS) malware is a malicious application that steals credit card data from the memory of computers connected to credit card equipment. Once infected the system, the LockPoS malware tries to gain access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
The development team behind the popular Electrum Bitcoin wallet app has issued an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability in the company bitcoin wallets. Electrum is a free application thatâs used by many cryptocurrency sites to store bitcoin. Administrators can run their own Electrum server and the software supports hardware wallets such as Trezor, Ledger and Keepkey. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
Turla APT group’s espionage campaigns now employs Adobe Flash Installer and an ingenious social engineering technique, the backdoor is downloaded from what appears to be legitimate Adobe URLs and IP addresses. Security researchers from ESET who have analyzed recent cyber espionage campaigns conducted by the dreaded Turla APT group reported that hackers leverage on malware downloaded from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
Microsoft has released the January 2018 Patch Tuesday security updates, containing fixes for 56 vulnerabilities including the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-0802 in MS Office. Microsoft has released the January 2018 Patch Tuesday security updates, containing fixes for 56 vulnerabilities including a zero-day vulnerability in MS Office. 16 security updates are rated as critical, 38 as important, 1 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
VirusTotal announced the availability of a visualization tool, dubbed VirusTotal Graph, designed to help with malware analysis. The VirusTotal Graph should allow investigators working with multiple reports at the same time, to try to pivot between multiple data points (files, URLs, domains and IP addresses). The observation of the connections across different samples of malware could allow investigators to collect more […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2018
Microsoft officially confirmed that Meltdown and Spectre patches could cause noticeable performance slowdowns contrary to what initially thought. Just after the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, many security experts argued that forthcoming patches will have a significant impact on the performance (30% degradation), but Intel pointed out that average users will not notice any difference. […]
