Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2018
Bitcoin Core Software fixed a critical DDoS attack vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core wallet software tracked as CVE-2018-17144. The Bitcoin Core team urges miners to update client software with the latest Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 version as soon as possible. “A denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2018-17144) exploitable by miners has been discovered in Bitcoin Core versions 0.14.0 up […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2018
Cybercriminals have stolen 6.7 billion yen ($60 million) worth of cryptocurrencies from the Japanese digital currency exchange Zaif exchange. According to the Tech Bureau Corp., a Japanese cryptocurrency firm, hackers have compromised its Zaif exchange and have stolen 6.7 billion yen ($60 million) worth of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Monacoin, and Bitcoin Cash. The stole digital currencies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2018
Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself, but it is spread via brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers. Today I’d like to share a simple analysis based on a fascinating threat that I like to call Sustes (you will see name genesis in a bit). Everybody knows Monero cryptocurrency and probably everybody knows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2018
A new report published by Citizen Lab revealed that the NSO Pegasus spyware was used against targets across 45 countries worldwide. A new investigation of the Citizen Lab revealed that the powerful Pegasus mobile spyware was used against targets across 45 countries around the world over the last two years. Pegasus is a surveillance malware developed by the Israeli surveillance NSO Group that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2018
The gambling application EOSBet was affected by a vulnerability in its smart contract system that has been exploited by attackers to steal $200,000 worth of EOS. The security breach was first reported by the member “thbourlove” of the EOSBet Reddit community that shared the code used to exploit the flaw. After seeing the exploit code, the EOSBet’s official Reddit account […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2018
Several anti-malware apps developed by Trend Micro have been removed from the Mac App Store because they were harvesting users’ browser history and other info. Several anti-malware apps developed by Trend Micro, including Dr Cleaner, Dr. Unarchiver, Dr Antivirus, and App Uninstall, have been removed from the Mac App Store after researchers discovered they were harvesting users’ browser […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2018
A growing number of iOS apps currently collect location data, WiFi network IDs and other data, from iPhone users and sell them to monetization firms. A group of security researchers that developed the popular Guardian mobile firewall app revealed that a growing number of iOS apps currently collect location data, WiFi network IDs and other data, from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2018
The popular Debian-based distribution Tails “The Amnesiac Incognito Live System” is out. The Tails 3.9 is available online with the biggest updates this year. A new version of the popular Debian-based distribution Tails “The Amnesiac Incognito Live System” is out. The Tails version 3.9 is available online, the privacy-oriented operating system gets its biggest update, many […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2018
Apple has removed one of the most popular anti-malware app called Adware Doctor:Anti Malware &Ad from the official macOS App Store Apple has removed one of the most popular anti-malware app called Adware Doctor:Anti Malware &Ad from the official macOS App Store because it was gathering users’ browser histories and other sensitive data and then upload them to a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2018
Security researcher discovered that many misconfigured Tor sites using SSL certificated could expose the public IP addresses of underlying servers. Yonathan Klijnsma, a threat researcher at RiskIQ, has discovered that many misconfigured Tor sites using SSL certificated could expose the public IP addresses of underlying servers. Properly configured servers hosting hidden services have to listen only on the localhost (127.0.0.1) […]
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