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Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2019
620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites available for sale on the dark web

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. The advertising for the sale of the huge trove […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2019
Docker runc flaw opens the door to a ‘Doomsday scenario’

Security experts found a serious flaw tracked CVE-2019-5736 affecting runc, the default container runtime for Docker, containerd, Podman, and CRI-O. Aleksa Sarai, a senior software engineer at SUSE Linux GmbH, has disclosed a serious vulnerability tracked CVE-2019-5736 affecting runc, the default container runtime for Docker, containerd, Podman, and CRI-O. The vulnerability was discovered by the security researchers […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2019
MetaMask app on Google Play was a Clipboard Hijacker

Security researcher Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered the first Android cryptocurrency clipboard hijacker impersonating MetaMask on the official Google Play store. The rogue MetaMask app is a Clipboard Hikacker that monitors a device’s clipboard for Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses and replaces them with addresses of wallets under the control of the attacker. Using this trick the attackers can transfers funds […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2019
A mysterious code prevents QNAP NAS devices to be updated

Users of QNAP NAS devices are reporting through QNAP forum discussions of mysterious code that adds some entries that prevent software update. Users of the Network attached storage devices manufactured by QNAP  have reported a mystery string of malware attacks that disabled software updates by hijacking entries in host machines’ hosts file. According to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2019
Password Checkup Chrome extension warns users about compromised logins

Google has released a new extension for Chrome dubbed Password Checkup that will alert users if their username/password combinations were leaked online as part of a dump after a data breach. Last week Google released Password Checkup a Chrome extension that warns users about compromised logins every time they will enter login credentials on a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2019
Thousands of RDM refrigeration systems exposed online are at risk

Experts from Safety Detective discovered thousands of refrigeration systems made by Resource Data Management (RDM) exposed to remote attacks. Thousands of instances of a temperature control system made by Resource Data Management (RDM) are exposed to remote attacks because they were using default passwords and failed in implementing other security measures. The vulnerable instances are used […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2019
Adiantum will bring encryption on Android devices without cryptographic acceleration

Google announced Adiantum, a new encryption method devised to protect Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. Google announced Adiantum, a new encryption method devised to protect Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. “Adiantum is an innovation in cryptography designed to make storage encryption more efficient for devices without cryptographic acceleration, to ensure that all devices can be encrypted.” reads the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2019
Google open sourced the ClusterFuzz fuzzing platform

Google has open sourced ClusterFuzz, its fuzzing infrastructure it has developed to find memory corruption vulnerabilities in Chrome. Google has open sourced its fuzzing infrastructure ClusterFuzz that the tech giant developed to find memory corruption bugs in the Chrome browser. ClusterFuzz is a scalable fuzzing tool that can run on clusters with more than 25,000 cores. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2019
New Linux coin miner kills competing malware to maximize profits

Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of coin miner that targets the Linux platform and installs the XMR-Stak Cryptonight cryptocurrency miner. Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of coin miner that targets the Linux platform and installs the XMR-Stak Cryptonight cryptocurrency miner, researchers observed it killing other Linux malware […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 200 – News of the week

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 with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Can Enterprises execute a GRC Movement? Experts observed […]