Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2016
Adobe Flash Player 22.0.0.192 release fixes the Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) exploited by the APT group dubbed ScarCruft. Adobe has issued the Flash Player 22.0.0.192, a release that fixes the Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) exploited by the APT group dubbed ScarCruft in attacks on high-profile targets. The Flash Player flaw CVE-2016-4171 affects versions 21.0.0.242 and earlier for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2016
The security expert and malware researcher @dvk01uk reported a very unusual phishing attack on PayPal leveraging on Javascript. The phishing is still a very profitable technique for crooks, phishers try to improve old tactic in a new fashion in order to steal victims’ information. One of the most common suggestions to mitigate phishing attacks is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2016
The value of the Ethereum Currency is plummeting after a hack, the Digital currency Ethereum may have less than a month to live. The value of the Ethereum digital currency is plummeting following a hack on The DAO’s Ethereum holdings. The DAO is a decentralized and virtual organization that was established to fund new projects, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2016
On Tuesday evening Github became aware of unauthorized attempts to access a large number of its accounts, in response the company has reset their passwords. GitHub announced it has reset the passwords of a number of accounts after the company noticed unauthorized access. The hackers used credentials leaked online after the numerous data breaches suffered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2016
The FBI disclosed the data related Business e-mail compromise (BEC) crimes, hackers sought to steal over $3 billion through this illegal practice. Business e-mail compromise – BEC crimes are a serious problem for companies, hackers have sought to steal more than $3.1 billion from businesses exploiting this practice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently warned. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2016
The Democratic National Committee’s network was hacked by Russian hackers belonging to nation-state groups that have had access to the group’s communications and databases. Yesterday, the security research firm CrowdStrike reported on a cyber breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNS). CrowdStrike’s incident response time discovered not one, but two hacking groups that it considers “some […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab revealed that an APT group dubbed ScarCruft exploited the zero day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) in Adobe Flash Player. According to the experts from Kaspersky Lab, an APT group dubbed ScarCruft exploited a zero day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) in Adobe Flash Player. The group launched a series of attacks against high-profile targets against entities in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
In February Verticalscope platform was hacked and more than 45 Million passwords from 1,000 websites running on it have been leaked online. Data breaches, a never ending saga! Recently we reported a number of clamorous data breaches, hundred thousand million credentials were offered for sale in dark web. LinkedIn, mySpace, VKontakte, and Twitter are some of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
Cyber criminals are offering for sale a hi-tech gadget named Contactless Infusion X5t to scan nearby contactless payment cards and clone them. The British Daily Mail published an interesting article on a new gadget used by crooks to clone up to 15 contactless bank cards a second from victims, and it can do it by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
Security researchers have found a vulnerability that could allow attackers to send massive messages on Telegram bypassing its limitations. Security researchers have devised a method to send massive messages on Telegram. The experts have found a flaw that allows them so send messages of any size as showed in the proof-of-concept provided by the researchers. […]
